Message #2608

[Hwoarang]

I think it's pretty much the same for every genre. There's a lot of crap out there, and there are some pretty good stuff, and some amazing stuff. But I think that the main thing is that you know what it is that you're coducting. The arrangement needs to fit the mood of the music, and I think that the best example of that is in the hall of the mountain king by grieg:



It starts out simplistic, and as the theme and mood grows the orchestra grows. (even in this remix.)

And I think thats a big problem for techno music. Suddenly the makers get all the power. There's no big limits anymore, and it's too easy to overkill something.  And the important sections drowns in the bombasticness of it all. Especially when the creator doesn't really understand the strenghts and weaknesses of all the instruments he's using.  However, when it's done right, it can result in something that you've never seen before. Even if the creator doesn't know the instruments at all: