Alright, I'm seeing that my word choice was probably very poorly chosen, so let me try and clear some stuff up before I permanently retain a reputation as the community asshole (the boat for which may have already sailed...but what's done is done, so...)
Alright...
When I wrote "horribly overdone", my intended meaning of the word "horribly" was just for emphasis of "overdone", as in "more overdone than just 'overdone'." I was NOT in any way attempting to tell anyone that they or their music are horrible, as it seems to have been (admittedly, reasonably) taken. I even stated in my original post that I think techno and trance is awesome, but that I simply think it'd be beneficial for some of you guys and the AP to accommodate a bit more variety if possible in regards to equipment. So I do apologize for coming off as an ass by using that word, I should have simply said I thought it was overdone.
I also apologize if I came across as arrogant. I realize my post may have sounded rather arrogant, but the internet does indeed mask true intentions, and mine wasn't to appear as if I know more than the rest of you. I can admit it; most of the people here probably know more than me about recording and mixing/arranging music. But I do know what I can see, and I see techno and trance music taking up a lot of the Audio Portal.
I intended to provide advice to the community, which would be taken in by those who would accept it, and ignored by people who choose not to or who disagreed with me. I'm not trying to tell any of you what to do, nor did I mean to belittle anything that you have already done. My only intention, however arrogant and/or asshole-ish my original post might have sounded, was to inspire the AP community to remember to try new things rather than continue adding to the (not horribly) overdone (overdone as in, done a lot more than other genres) techno and trance genres.
If I could edit my original post, I would do so with better word choices to reflect the tone I was really intending to get across. I guess I'm used to other boards where I am more well known to not be such an asshole, so I didn't pay enough attention to what I was actually writing.
And Cross666, judging from your first sentence I can only assume all the hostility you threw my way was because you like many of the others misinterpreted my intentions. I'm not really bothered by it, since I've grown pretty thick skinned to hostile posts having moderated a few forums, but I figured I should address what you have written regardless.
Anyhoo, I am indeed aware that EVERY genre has sub-genres, and instead of listing out each of them, I instead grouped them in their parent genres for simplicity, since I was speaking about electronica though I couldn't remember the word.
It is true that skilled creators of electronica music know how to differentiate between writing for one subgenre and another, but quite honestly, a lot of the pieces that are being uploaded to the AP seem to sound very similar (at least, similar to many other songs of their particular subgenres...) and IMO it becomes uninteresting.
That's where I was coming from, and instead of continually posting that on all the music I feel is in need of that comment, I thought I'd make a thread about it instead. Unfortunately I wasn't careful and used words with negative connotations and thus began the hate storm.
And once more, just to make it clear..
Do you mean to tell us we cannot create...
Nowhere did I say (or intend to imply) that anyone CANNOT write music in those genres. People can do whatever they want, regardless of what I or anyone says or "advises".
And with that, especially being summarised as you did, made it sound like you were ranting on the community for only making horribly overdone generic techno music.
Yeah, I can see that now...if I just hadn't used that damn word "horribly", this all probably wouldn't have become nearly as a big of a problem. =/
So newgrounds audio portal community, I apologize for the offense I have given, and I hope now you all understand where I'm really coming from or at least don't hate me quite as much. I wasn't trying to troll or cause hate, and in the future I will certainly have to take word choice into account so I don't create this kind of misunderstanding again.
And with that, in an attempt to avoid causing any more damage, I'm going to log off and probably not bother posting about any of this again.
Good day all. This thread can probably be closed now, unless anyone else has something they feel needs to be said.