i have to admit that i love âbrainâ metaphor.
for instance, my rig has two hemispheres (grooveboxes / sequencers) and spinal chord (which does MIDI routing).
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I read a biography of Mozart. As a youth, his greatest talent was imitation. He could mimic any popular style. Consequently, most of his adolescent output is pretty meh and derivative. But look where it eventually got him. Mimicry may be an important part of the learning process. And when it comes to using hardware/software, being able to mimic a sound or style may indicate better command over the setupâŚthan by creating something âoriginalâ.
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who decides if I can dance or not? Do I need to get a dance certificate somewhere, before I lay down a 4 on the floor kick 
?
I enjoy dance music from the couch. I donât like clubs, but still like some club music
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this is OT but personally I donât think originality even exist, only the existential desire to be original, I have much more regard for authenticity than originality, that no matter what music an artist played that they really felt what they conveyed. I always imagined hell as being a place where nobody actually listened to music but instead ranted for all eternity about how theyâd heard every patch in a song before so it wasnât worthy to be heard.
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Of course it does, otherwise how did we get here from Mozart? 
what makes you think weâre not where weâve always been and what makes you think we came from mozart, even mozart didnât come from mozart, itâs not like mozart equates to most art?
thatâs another bone though, does art even exist, if itâs in the eye of the beholder then it has no definition and having no definition cancels out the notion of itâs own existence doesnât it?
Seriously, I couldâve chosen any classical composer from way back when or some dude who first hit a stretched pigskin. You get my point. Originality does exist and it often comes from an artist being true to themselves as you pointed out. All good 
sounds like your definition of originality is my definition of authenticity?..
I heard somebody say once that originality is being the first person to get popular for doing something in particular and that being an artist is getting paid for it.
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Why is this? Because the incredible intricacies of dance music, has to be felt, and can never be understood from a theoretical angle?
Do you check the composers moves somehow, before you slide out on the dancefloor, or is it a gut instinct?
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I do this sometimes, when resetting a push encoder, i.e. resetting the bass. (=drop)
It feels good and is 100% genuine.
I donât keep it in the air though, and it doesnât go high.
More like a downward chop with an upward flourish.
Add: the encoders I use for this are faderfox, not elektron.
Early morning sensibilities
I have to say this thread tends to generalize and alienate a bit too much for my taste.
I keep mine in the air and turn it into a finger wave when least expected
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I use the other one to twirl my imaginary moustache.
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without having experienced being completely off your face in the middle of a rave youâll have no idea on what moves you and what gives you that emotion.
Look at when people like Mike Oldfield have tried to write a trance track and it turned out utter shite. Trance by numbers. They get the sounds right, they get the structure right but it sounds like itâs written by someone with zero understanding of what the music is trying to accomplish and it comes across as like background music for some cartoon.
Also why the music scene is borderline stale with very few genres having any energy on an emotional level other than some pounding kick drum and repeating 4 bar loop , yawn.
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You definitely have a point there. But it doesnât mean that person needs to be a good dancer.
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Iâm neither up nor down with that one but itâs infinitely preferrable to when people refer to their âbattlestationâ or call a favoured instrument a âweapon of choiceâ because everyone really knows that Rambo wouldâve prefered to be sat at home making sick trap beatsâŚ
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4 ON THE 4LOOR
There i said it.
Sorry, not sorry!
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I love them. I listened to boombap hiphop and indie bands in the 90s and missed all acid house, rave etc etc
I only started using and listening to Roland drummachine sounds in the last 8 years, so to me they sound super fresh 
I donât care if others know them for 30 years, I like to use them 
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This feels like forever ago but holy hell! 
Thank you for sharing the enlightening knowledge of these videos!
Makes me want to see more strange stuff akin to Tim and Eric.
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Parallelism.
In my music theory classes, we got marked down for parallel voice-leading in our four-part writing exercises. Fast forward 30+ years and I am hearing it in electronic music. Sample a chord, lay it out across the keyboard. Play a melody with that chord and pretend itâs a chord progression. Really, itâs just a failing grade on your theory test!
I am not complaining about a technique, per se, but rather a lack of technique. I listened to Venetian Snares last week. I was transfixed. I thought, This is really amazing music, the creator has a great ear. But, paralellism was still there in his tracks, and I didnât hear polyphonic voice leading at all.
Electronic music can be sophisticated in texture, but I frequently find it harmonically uninteresting. Disclosure: I am a snob about such things.
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