Anybody else think the song “Strobe” by deadmau5 is fucking insane?

KevskiI definitely had to condition myself to appreciate house music. Initially found it way too repetitive, too strict on beat, etc.
It’s all about subtle variations and transitions and ebbs and flows - you almost can’t listen to it through the same conscious, technical lens as most other music.

Definitely a style that is meant to be felt more than it is explicitly thought about, and I think this song is no exception.

Dance music is a tug of war between repetition and Originality.



In order to be a good song to dance to, it needs to have a persistent fast beat or rhythm that allows dancers to be moved by the musics fast paced energy.

but if the song just repeats the same thing for longer than 2-3 minutes it can get repetative, so it is good to have different phases in a song.

strobe is a great example of a good song you can dance to that isnt repetitive. It has like 4 or maybe 5 sections, and only like 2 of them are dancable. The rest are part of the buildup/comedown etc...


some songs are good and dancable for the whole thing which is optimal in a nightclub or techno concert where the audience doesnt want to stand around waiting for the dancable section of the track.

**This post was edited on Jun 16th 2020 at 6:50:46pm

CaseyI am not saying it’s bad or I don’t like it. Weaving the melody through like a pedal note thing on the base is deliberate, and it’s cool I agree with that. Music doesn’t have to be complicated to be good, but the OP was comparing this song to Bach/Beethoven/Mozart in terms of musical complexity. That is what I was judging it on.

I am not a big classical music guy but this song really doesn’t go anywhere for as long as it is. Like here, listen to it/watch it stripped down- Kind of the same progression with minor variations over and over again. Just my 2 cents maybe I am an idiot.

https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/966129/Strobe---deadmau5--Sheet-Music-

Ive thought about it some more and listened to the song some more and ive concluded you are kind of full of shit. Minimizing the amount of creativity required to birth the timing dynamics of the song is fucking degenerate, and it doesnt matter if some dicksucker can play it on a piano and try to climb on deadmaus shoulders and act like he could jump that high if he wanted to but he just didnt feel like it. The creation of the track dynamics is the limiting factor. If you can post a bunch of djs and musicians dropping similarly complex and aesthetic sounds and song dynamics feel free, but ive listened to ALOT of techno and strobe literally transcends everything else.

**This post was edited on Jul 3rd 2020 at 10:03:52pm

Nut up bitch

DolanReloadedIve thought about it some more and listened to the song some more and ive concluded you are kind of full of shit. Minimizing the amount of creativity required to birth the timing dynamics of the song is fucking degenerate, and it doesnt matter if some dicksucker can play it on a piano and try to climb on deadmaus shoulders and act like he could jump that high if he wanted to but he just didnt feel like it. The creation of the track dynamics is the limiting factor. If you can post a bunch of djs and musicians dropping similarly complex and aesthetic sounds and song dynamics feel free, but ive listened to ALOT of techno and strobe literally transcends everything else.

**This post was edited on Jul 3rd 2020 at 10:03:52pm

MiIfHunterNut up bitch

Im not your father.

DolanReloadedIve thought about it some more and listened to the song some more and ive concluded you are kind of full of shit. Minimizing the amount of creativity required to birth the timing dynamics of the song is fucking degenerate, and it doesnt matter if some dicksucker can play it on a piano and try to climb on deadmaus shoulders and act like he could jump that high if he wanted to but he just didnt feel like it. The creation of the track dynamics is the limiting factor. If you can post a bunch of djs and musicians dropping similarly complex and aesthetic sounds and song dynamics feel free, but ive listened to ALOT of techno and strobe literally transcends everything else.

**This post was edited on Jul 3rd 2020 at 10:03:52pm

Yeah I am not like fired up about it, just didn’t do it for me. Ok fine you’re right it’s the best song ever made.

CaseyYeah I am not like fired up about it, just didn’t do it for me. Ok fine you’re right it’s the best song ever made.

Haha now i feel bad. Sorry for saying you were full of shit. I guess to me it just seems like its on the next level of figuring out what works wrt a tracks beat system (if thats even the proper name for how the melody times itself)

JUST GIVE ME A SOUND, TO SEE. ANOTHER WORLD FULL OF ALL THE BROKEN THINGS THAT I MADDEEE