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Originally Posted by storymilo
Maybe you're right. But that's not really the point I'm trying to make. I'm just saying that so many styles have been explored already, particularly in the last 5 decades or so, that it's hard to come up with original music that hasn't been done before and is actually good now.
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I get what you're saying but what I'm saying is that I don't think it's any harder or any easier to come up with good new original music than it ever has been. You're speaking as if there is some predetermined, finite number of styles available to people and we've used most of them up at this point, but I don't think that's the case because the game is always changing. Why did no one think to make breakcore in the 1950s? Because the technology to do it hadn't been invented yet. In terms of technology and the cultural landscape the deck is always being reshuffled and because of that I'd say there are nearly infinite combinations of things that can result in great new original music. That said, I think it's safe to say all music has it's antecedents, so in that sense there's never really been any thing truly new going on at a fundamental level. But that's what makes music exciting to me, the fact that it has to keep one foot in the past while applying those old ideas to new situations.