Broadcast radio. Many people including myself have stopped listening to radio because of the poor quality of new music being promoted these days. Doesn't matter whether it was made on a modular or a hard-wired synth. The decline of radio audience has homogenized broadcast radio to the handful of conglomerates who have relegated broadcasting from a few select central locations.Voltor07 wrote:Ok, name one example of how modular synthesizers have contributed to the destruction of culture and music, then.MC wrote:Elhardt may be abrasive, but he does have a valid point and I agree with him.
Culture suffered because there were no longer any local news/weather being broadcast, and the songlist doesn't gel with local tastes. Where I live the radio formats are classic rock, hip-hop, top40, and country - THAT'S IT. The classic rock station plays the same three-hour rotation of songs ALL DAY LONG. I'm TIRED of classic rock and the other tired tried-n-true formats. Where are the jazz, fusion, classical, punk, alternate stations? You will only find them in large metropolitan areas, the nearest one 100 miles out of range from me.
Music suffered because it is much harder for any new style or artist to break out of a local market. There is barely any outlet for true art.
Sure there is the internet - but there are still millions of citizens without internet access. And 9 out of 10 songs I have heard on internet outlets are not worth listening to, the net has become an outlet for jam musicians who like to believe they are songwriters. Way too much junk out there. I *do* like some of the electronic stuff out there though.