The Melbourne Sound

marcus · Post by **marcus** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:07 am

What do you reckon? What distinguishes the Melbourne sound? Are we just a bunch of chinstrokers? Or is everyone else just too lazy too expose themselves to new music?

My opinion - there is a very distinctive sound for us Melbournites - whether it minimal, dnb, electro, breaks etc.

I bring this up because a mate in perth said we are a bunch of chin strokers.

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:40 am

I reckon the Melbourne sound is no sound. There's not one thing that defines it...variety. If any one sound ever defined a city or region then that'd be pretty boring IMO.

On the other hand, I do hear a lot of Italian disco whenever I'm buying my fashionable items in the city though, i.e. tight, leather pants, poodle purse and Versace shades. Maybe that's what we're known for. Italian disco...not the poodle purse.

Sustain · Post by **Sustain** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 2:06 pm

don't shave for a day or so, turn the music right down, rub thumb, index and middle finger on chin.

can you hear it?

Cubist · Post by **Cubist** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:02 pm

^^^ U forgot to spark up the ice pipe!

Sustain · Post by **Sustain** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:33 pm

what do you think i was doing with my other thumb and index finger

Zero Hour · Post by **Zero Hour** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:51 pm

Cubist wrote:^^^ U forgot to spark up the ice pipe!

U used to be about the music man.

Sustain · Post by **Sustain** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 3:59 pm

^^yeah you used to be about the wobble

wobble is the melburn sound

universal sea · Post by **universal sea** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 4:22 pm

I don't think Melbourne has a particular sound.

I thought Toronto and Canada had a particular sound, more on the rock/band side of things, then last night I saw some folksy rock band in Docklands I could have sworn was Canadian-styled music... but really it's just the way music is around the world in western places. Not necessarily brilliant but it's there.

DJ stuff sounds the same here, not too many signature elements that stand out.

I wasn't in Toronto for the dubstep rise there, so maybe Melbourne = wobble indeed.

konk · Post by **konk** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:35 pm

there is no melbourne sound in the beats area. Its all been overtaken by mullet cut, bad taste 80's fashion wearing wannabes at onelove or PURE HARD DRUG ADDICTS also with mullets.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:41 pm

The Melbourne sound seems largely borrowed from New Zealand.

RK · Post by RK » Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:03 pm

Special Hegg wrote:The Melbourne sound seems largely borrowed from New Zealand.

lolz

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:07 pm

konk wrote:Its all been overtaken by mullet cut, bad taste 80's fashion wearing wannabes.

You've just hit the nail on the head of my peoples. I wish my bad taste defined this era more, actually. Go the 80's...

PahMaLa · Post by **PahMaLa** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:30 am

Special Hegg wrote:The Melbourne sound seems largely borrowed from New Zealand.

Hahahaha, made me luff.

Pretty much everywhere some one is going to be "borrowing" sound(s) from someone else that they get inspiration from. Why define a sound to a particular town, city, country where ever...because really it all sounds the same (or similar) one way or another.

patch · Post by **patch** » Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:51 pm

Cubist wrote:^^^ U forgot to spark up the ice pipe!

was that while in in perth or melbourne?

Johnny Hooves · Post by **Johnny Hooves** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:11 am

D wrote:"borrowing" sound(s)

Dammnit I stole this Amen fair and square and I aint giving it back!

shabana · Post by **shabana** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:17 am

patch wrote:
Cubist wrote:^^^ U forgot to spark up the ice pipe!
was that while in in perth or melbourne?

or Adelaide? (judging by the last time was there)

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:34 am

Melbourne sound?

I'd reckon with the electric internet being the way it is these days that little "pockets of sound" that are insulated and isolated from the rest of the world are becoming increasingly rare....

I don't reckon we have a signature sound. There's so many different genre's, scenes and people that make up this town - perhaps that's what differentiates Melbourne???

Having said that, I would say we're less commercial than Sydney.

Post by **fooishbar** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:36 pm

Direktor wrote:the electric internet

(edit: better image.)

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:38 pm

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:54 pm

that's a paddlin

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:46 pm

don't think there is a specific Melbourne sound, but there is a Melbourne scene and it apparently centres around this forum.

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:18 pm

Direktor wrote:I would say we're less commercial than Sydney.

Certainly as far as the DJ/club scene. But the live music scene (whether instrumental or electronic) in Sydney is far more interesting and more diverse than anything I've heard in Melbourne in the five odd years I've been here.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 5:41 pm

Lizkins wrote:don't think there is a specific Melbourne sound, but there is a Melbourne scene and it apparently centres around this forum.

you forgot teef?

I dont think there is a melbourne sound perse, i mean, it depends on what your talking about, like, is there a sound that we all identify with as being 'from melbourne' or is there a prevailing sound that runs through much of the music produced here, or is there a genre that is played more that is more 'melbourne' than some of the others??

and, it depends on where you go.

certain clubs and areas of the city i think you could safely say were known for loving 'electro', then you might go to miss libs and think that everyone in melbs is into breaks and beats, (or stumble on MB.com and think the same) but you could also go to one love and think that is the melbourne crowd/sound. end up at the tote and the vibe might be that cock rock is the go in melburn town.

chin strokers however, we are not.
i think melbourne people are actually quite spoilt for music, and quite discerning, which may come across as chin stroking, but with such a high concentration of djs, crews and events here, we have earned the right to stroke a cihn now and then as long as we are up front and centre for the gigs/acts we want to support.

i know i am.

some of the interantional acts ive seen here (not just electronic)
actually mean it when they say "i love playin to you guys in melbourne"

and i think that goes across all genres, we know what we like here...
and many of us are qualified to judge what we get served up.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:37 pm

even if there's no melbourne sound as such, we have the shuffle...and that's a more significant contribution than any other scene.

Post by **system** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:54 pm

the melbourne sound only turns up after midnight.

Zero Hour · Post by **Zero Hour** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:50 pm

Who fuckin cares....this has been discussed too many times.

Does it make it easier to know what to expect when you go out or do sum ppl think we have an identity crisis?? Dont put things in boxes for someone else to shut the lid.

I agree kitty.

SoulWhiteMan · Post by **SoulWhiteMan** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:33 pm

f-f-f-f-fresh!

Cubist · Post by **Cubist** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:01 pm

Zero Hour wrote:Who fuckin cares....this has been discussed too many times.

Does it make it easier to know what to expect when you go out or do sum ppl think we have an identity crisis?? Dont put things in boxes for someone else to shut the lid.

I agree kitty.

eewwww temper, temper...

Zero Hour · Post by **Zero Hour** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:04 pm

Cubist wrote:
Zero Hour wrote:Who fuckin cares....this has been discussed too many times.

Does it make it easier to know what to expect when you go out or do sum ppl think we have an identity crisis?? Dont put things in boxes for someone else to shut the lid.

I agree kitty.
eewwww temper, temper...

opinion???

Cubist · Post by **Cubist** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:24 pm

^^^fair point. What was the questions again?

Post by **fooishbar** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:25 pm

system wrote:the melbourne sound only turns up after midnight.

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:40 am

ghetto kitty wrote:
Lizkins wrote:don't think there is a specific Melbourne sound, but there is a Melbourne scene and it apparently centres around this forum.
you forgot teef?

i was thinking my sarcasm was oozing off the screen, perhaps not. needs more teef

Lizkins · Post by **Lizkins** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:43 am

witty_pseudonym wrote:even if there's no melbourne sound as such, we have the shuffle...and that's a more significant contribution than any other scene.

too right Witty, we has it, they want it, but they don't have it

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:17 pm

fooishbar wrote:
system wrote:the melbourne sound only turns up after midnight.

The chin strokers turn up at 2AM