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Do you listen to unce music?

Do you listen to unce music?

  • Unce unce unce

    Votes: 10 17.5%

  • I remain unceless

    Votes: 29 50.9%

  • I listen to carrot music

    Votes: 18 31.6%
  • Total voters
    57
#22
I've played roughly 1000 rock shows in my home country of Australia. As unce crept in around the late 80's, early 90's we would often find ourselves doing gigs in clubs that invariably would whack on a DJ as soon as the headline act finished and the unceing would begin. To varying degrees of unce intensity. As the bands I was in valiantly carried the flag for bass drums n guitar through the 90's and noughties and beyond, we just gave up fighting it and would just end up drunk as all hell after our show/s and find ourselves unceing out on the dancefloor in cowboy boots, jeans and grunge t-shirts, or skate sneakers , shorts, wifebeater vests and flannel shirts around the waist on the hot nights. In Melbourne at least, a lot of the bouncers were fairly egalitarian with our lot and even when we woke up on the dance floor at 7 am they weren't too rough in assisting us to leave the premises.

Years later, I finally uncovered the conspiracy - unce operates mainly around 120 BPM, obviously there is some faster stuff, but rarely slower. And the US Army, among others, employs quick time marching as their basic A to B cadence - at 120BPM.
We tried to warn the ravers, they weren't interested...😂
 
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Michedelic said:
I don't know if this would be stylistically related, but every time I hear it, my head starts twitching uncontrollably. This happened the other day when I was waiting in line at a pharmacy, they asked me if I needed a sedative…

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Ah, a prime example of "Eurodance". This is the stuff that was largely responsible for introducing the masses to house in the early '90s. 🥴
 
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#32
FilterFunk said:
I prefer "boots 'n' pants" music, but that's just me!:smug:

But seriously folks...one thing about unce/techno/EDM music is that it contains some of the most massive synth tones of any music I've ever heard. Not into the music, but those tones...:woot:
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For massive synth tones I prefer some of the more modern goth stuff. Most of it still danceable, but it's not as monotonous as that trance stuff.



 
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#34
Spectrum said:
For massive synth tones I prefer some of the more modern goth stuff. Most of it still danceable, but it's not as monotonous as that trance stuff.



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Definitely a fan of industrial/agrotech. Dawn of Ashes, Tactical Sekt, Combichrist, Suicide Commando, Faderhead, Funker Vogt, Grendel.

Also a fan of the sound design that goes into various electronic genres. You'll often find ear candy Easter Eggs, like obscure samples or polyrhythms.

There's definitely a spectrum that can go from pretty boneheaded generic stomping to slick production tricks, to Aphex Twin madness.
 
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#35
unce, oontz, boots 'n cats, boots 'n pants... I love all the names for this thing and we all know what each other's talking about. That almost never happens. Like even though I (from Jersey-delphia) and someone from, say, Wisconsin both speak English, some of our vernacular and slang differs.

Anyway... I remember during the 2010s when my old band used to play camping festivals. There was this one festival where around 2014 or so was when the majority of the day and evening would be rock bands and after midnight there would be a rave. But a couple of years later, that festival started to shift directions where the rave became the main draw and the rock bands were pushed out to the fringes (because raves drew youth from all around and was becoming more profitable to the festival runners than rock bands). That was when other smaller festivals started coming up that wanted to keep the rock band thing alive.

But I think we might be seeing a cultural shift back to rootsier music. With the backlash against AI (especially with communities railing against data centers that are leeching water and electricity away from homes), and the push towards screen detoxing and reconnecting with people... I've noticed that a significant portion of high school students listen to older music because they KNOW it was done by real people. And there is a quest to find authenticity. And some pop artists tour with live bands. Guitarist Paul Sidoti and bassist Amos Heller have been in Taylor Swift's band since 2007. She pretty much won't play without them.
 
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#37
Dincrest said:
. And some pop artists tour with live bands. Guitarist Paul Sidoti and bassist Amos Heller have been in Taylor Swift's band since 2007. She pretty much won't play without them.
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P!nk keeps really good musicians in her band, and Rhianna's guitarist for years was Nuno Bettencourt! There are definitely pop artists out there who appreciate musicianship.
 
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#38
Oddly said:
Not a term I'd even heard of, so I had to go look it up. I'm not sure, but I think my answer is no.
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Same here(never heard the term), and I've done a lot of dance music since the late 90's! House, some techno, UK Garage, etc.
I'll tell ya what I discovered as someone who has done music his whole life, knows theory, the traditional way to do things, trad production techniques, yadda yadda---I found it very challenging at times to get to the same place producing that music as someone who doesn't have all the same technical musical baggage. I had to work to break rules, but they just didn't have those rules to begin with! And producing a track that actually works in a huge club environment as not remotely as simple as some might think.
 
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#39
pbass2 said:
Same here, and I've done a lot of dance music since the late 90's! House, some techno, UK Garage, etc.
I'll tell ya what I discovered as someone who has done music his whole life, knows theory, the traditional way to do things, trad production techniques, yadda yadda---I found it very challenging at times to get to the same place producing that music as someone who doesn't have all the same technical musical baggage. I had to work to break rules, but they just didn't have those rules to begin with! And producing a track that actually works in a huge club environment as not remotely as simple as some might think.
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Techno composition definitely had a "just do whatever sounds cool" vibe. And it makes sense. Traditional pedagogy and theory exist to make it easier to tech, communicate with, and play with others. Why would you need to do that with techno? You can make all the music you could ever think of alone in your bedroom.

Maybe in the 70s when a synth was the size if a china hutch that wasn't the case. But since the 80s, and especially in the 90s with home computers becoming common, the only restiction was making sure you had electricity and remembering to save your work.
 

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