With all the brouhaha that has surrounded dance music, I can't help but think of this. The old school is so loved by new producers, but sometimes it seems to the point that they are trying to emulate them, almost by copying them. I understand the idiom "to channel a sound" but as of late, it just feels like there is EDM, and then there is the underground that hates EDM, but is just trying to sound old school, which ends up all sounding the same. The new and fresh sounds of dance music seem to be few and far between. I personally find myself leaning towards more techno artists, and seeking a harder sound.
Overall, I do think that as EDM will die down, Soul/R&B will take its place. Acts like Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, and Miguel are causing pandemonium among the youth.
For Dec Lennon aka Krystal Klear, who is a Red Bull Music Academy alumni, he definitely enjoys the urban sound if his SoundCloud is any testament to his work. But his latest track featuring the vocals of Jenna G, "More Attention" seem to want to capture the MURK sound (much more than Duke Dumont's The Giver, which is what Tiga alluded to on the Turbo SoundCloud page).
I actually prefer the B-side "My Love is Burning" because I find it has its own character. Both tracks are great, don't get me wrong. I just hope that young producers try to sound different. Maybe its the generational gap, and they think people of their generation don't know the old school sound. But with the internet, its not hard to go and discover music from every generation. Its important to carve your own sound. I can put so many of these new producers in one basket, and you couldn't tell who made what because its all sounding the same (I call it the Hot Creations effect).
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