In Summary - What Was Meant By My Last Post

The problem with such infrequent blogging is that ideas seem to tumble out of me, creating a mess of prose where my original point usually is entirely lost.

I am concerned that my last post may be read that I am attempting to champion some forms of music over others. I'm really not. Music is important to me. Sound is important to me and I need to be able to understand how various forms of music fit into their respective places, in order for me to fully immerse myself into a musical world. I can't simply listen to a song I like and hum along without wondering why it sounds the way it does? why am I listening to it through this particular medium? Why has it been recorded and produced in that way? With those instruments? That's partly where my enjoyment comes from.

So the point I was struggling to make in my last post wasn't that electronic music was now more superior or relevant to other rock/pop formats, but that in order to understand why people are making music in the way that they do, and how that style of music fits into the wider scheme of things, you need to assess the motivations behind the music. What has the artists set out to achieve?

As I said in my last post, I had lost sight of this as I started to question the relevance of electronic music when I heard how much emotion and skill was displayed through classic blues guitar music. Thankfully, the following morning I reminded myself of the above ideas and that electronic music executes a whole world of other goals.