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Originally Posted by emperor  lately ive been thinking about the future of the industry and seeing no future at all. So this is very interesting to see what you thought years back....also thinking that there would be no future really.. |
There is definitely a future, but it takes a lot of us to refocus our energies into different directions ad different ways of doing things. The mix has killed us. It's separated the dance floor into hundreds of different genres and sub-genres. If we can get everything paying on one dance floor again, dance music would take over.
Every single big trend in music has always started as dance music. People forget that Rock and Roll started as dance music. Then the majors took over and took it off the dance floor, and the Beatles brought it back to the dance floor, starting the British invasion. Rock and Roll left the dance floor again, then Disco took over.
There was an industry wide effort to kill disco because it got to popular, and New Wave took over, also starting out as dance music. In the early 80's Rap and House music came up, and the Rap/hip hop became the dominant music because they had artists and videos.
I'd expected House music by now to leave the dance floor and expand like Rock and Roll did, but that didn't happen because we got locked into formats and bpms. If a totally new dance music came out today, nobody would play it because it wouldn't fit into any genres. Rap clubs wouldn't play it because it's not Rap, Techno clubs wouldn't play it because it's not Techno, Drum and Bass clubs wouldn't play it because it's not Drum and Bass, Deep House Clubs wouldn't play it because it's not Deep House. When we solve that problem, and I do mean
when, things will be rosy.