Cuive
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- Jun 12, 2012
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- New York, USA
NOTE: I originally posted this on my G+ (hence the +Names), but felt I wanted to share it with this community as well. I kinda wrote this up in extreme anger after listening to the new Netsky album for the first time, however it is a general reaction to ALL 2012 Hospital releases. Though new to this forum, I can already tell I'll probably catch a lot of heat for my opinions below, but at the same time I really want a genuinely educated response to measure my opinion up to. Please try to not flame me, but at the same time I would very much like any feedback you have to give. Discuss away! (also, if you're just gonna TL;DR, please just move on)
+Netsky , +High Contrast, Logistics... I'm just going to call the attention of the entire +Hospital Records crew: I absolutely LOVE each and every one of you for what you've done for #drumandbass , okay? LOVE it. But. And here's a HUGE but. WHAT IS WITH ALL THE GOD DAMN DUBSTEP IN MY DRUM AND BASS?! This isn't a damned Reeses.
If I HONESTLY felt like you all were now including dubstep in your music because you're honestly, genuinely interested in it, that would be one thing. But it's almost blatantly obvious that you're incorporating it because it sells. Furthermore, and here's the important aspect to me at least, you are still marketing your albums as Drum and Bass.
If you're gonna include Dubstep, or Electro, or any other genre in your album, and not as an influence to a DnB song, but an an entire song that is clearly a different genre, then please PLEASE warn me BEFORE I buy your product and my expectations are not properly met. I look to Netsky, Logistics, High Contrast and pretty much all of Hospital Records as consistent purveyors of genuinely AMAZING Liquid DnB. When I listen to your newest albums, and third to a HALF of that album is simply NOT Drum and Bass, no matter how well you produced the tracks I'm not going to be pleased because I THOUGHT what I was purchasing was a DRUM AND BASS ALBUM. That's like if Bjork's next hit album included a few hard rock tracks. No matter the reasons, no one buys Bjork expecting hard rock, like no one buys a comic book expecting 5 pages of text and no pictures, and like I didn't spend my hard earned money on your newest releases expecting dubstep, electro, ect.
It's not THAT you did it that pisses me off so profoundly, it's that you are still saying these albums are DRUM AND BASS albums. If you're going to change your content, that's fine. You are all artists, and have a right to produce whatever it is that you find interesting or pleasing. Obviously many fans would be displeased if ALL you made was Dubstep, but screw em. It's your music, make it how YOU want. But understand that not marketing it properly will result in losing a great number of your following to frustration as they cling to their expectations, instead of sharing your vision for the future.
If you're going to change your content, then you absolutely MUST make an attempt to connect with your current audience, through proper marketing, to let them know you are now branching away from your roots. On behalf of Liquid DnB lovers everywhere, please communicate with us better. Let us know what we're buying, and when it will run contrary to our expectations. Please. I want to keep loving you all, but I need to know where we're going first.
Thank you all for taking the time to read through.
+Netsky , +High Contrast, Logistics... I'm just going to call the attention of the entire +Hospital Records crew: I absolutely LOVE each and every one of you for what you've done for #drumandbass , okay? LOVE it. But. And here's a HUGE but. WHAT IS WITH ALL THE GOD DAMN DUBSTEP IN MY DRUM AND BASS?! This isn't a damned Reeses.
If I HONESTLY felt like you all were now including dubstep in your music because you're honestly, genuinely interested in it, that would be one thing. But it's almost blatantly obvious that you're incorporating it because it sells. Furthermore, and here's the important aspect to me at least, you are still marketing your albums as Drum and Bass.
If you're gonna include Dubstep, or Electro, or any other genre in your album, and not as an influence to a DnB song, but an an entire song that is clearly a different genre, then please PLEASE warn me BEFORE I buy your product and my expectations are not properly met. I look to Netsky, Logistics, High Contrast and pretty much all of Hospital Records as consistent purveyors of genuinely AMAZING Liquid DnB. When I listen to your newest albums, and third to a HALF of that album is simply NOT Drum and Bass, no matter how well you produced the tracks I'm not going to be pleased because I THOUGHT what I was purchasing was a DRUM AND BASS ALBUM. That's like if Bjork's next hit album included a few hard rock tracks. No matter the reasons, no one buys Bjork expecting hard rock, like no one buys a comic book expecting 5 pages of text and no pictures, and like I didn't spend my hard earned money on your newest releases expecting dubstep, electro, ect.
It's not THAT you did it that pisses me off so profoundly, it's that you are still saying these albums are DRUM AND BASS albums. If you're going to change your content, that's fine. You are all artists, and have a right to produce whatever it is that you find interesting or pleasing. Obviously many fans would be displeased if ALL you made was Dubstep, but screw em. It's your music, make it how YOU want. But understand that not marketing it properly will result in losing a great number of your following to frustration as they cling to their expectations, instead of sharing your vision for the future.
If you're going to change your content, then you absolutely MUST make an attempt to connect with your current audience, through proper marketing, to let them know you are now branching away from your roots. On behalf of Liquid DnB lovers everywhere, please communicate with us better. Let us know what we're buying, and when it will run contrary to our expectations. Please. I want to keep loving you all, but I need to know where we're going first.
Thank you all for taking the time to read through.