December 21st, 2022 at 7:52 AM
The last 20 years or so (and especially, the last 10 years) have been dominated by a significant increase in the use of electronics in music. Percussion styles have often changed significantly to reflect this. Autotune has become popular. Keyboards and experimental sounds are commonplace, and increasingly, the guitar is taking a few more steps to the back.
Indie music is also rising, and it encompasses pretty much everything. From more grungy 90s style music, all the way to the more electronics-heavy styles of music today, but there's also a lot of music that is becoming simpler, more traditional, and more "authentically imperfect" in terms of intentionally avoiding an overproduced sound. It's interesting that what was once a natural effect of producing on ancient recording equipment is now something we put a lot more effort into reproducing with modern equipment (tape saturation is one of those things), and my prediction is that the indie music genre will bring a lot more of this back to the forefront, at least in some ways, in the next 10 years or so.
What are your predictions for music over the next decade?
Indie music is also rising, and it encompasses pretty much everything. From more grungy 90s style music, all the way to the more electronics-heavy styles of music today, but there's also a lot of music that is becoming simpler, more traditional, and more "authentically imperfect" in terms of intentionally avoiding an overproduced sound. It's interesting that what was once a natural effect of producing on ancient recording equipment is now something we put a lot more effort into reproducing with modern equipment (tape saturation is one of those things), and my prediction is that the indie music genre will bring a lot more of this back to the forefront, at least in some ways, in the next 10 years or so.
What are your predictions for music over the next decade?
