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VIEWS OF GERMAN PRODUCERS ON >TEUTONIC< METAL: PRODUCTION APPROACHES AND GENERATIONAL EFFECTS.

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Názov: VIEWS OF GERMAN PRODUCERS ON >TEUTONIC< METAL: PRODUCTION APPROACHES AND GENERATIONAL EFFECTS.
Autori: Herbst, Jan-Peter
Zdroj: Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung; 2020, p183-206, 24p
Predmety: HEAVY metal music, ROCK groups, SOUND recording executives & producers, THRASH metal music, SOUND recording industry
Abstrakt: Labels that denote a cultural or regional characteristic are common in the metal music discourse. Based on interviews with five internationally renowned German metal producers, this chapter explores the views of these professionals on the >Teutonic< metal label, examining what it means to them and how it may influence their practices. The study concentrates on selected areas of production such as systematic recording approaches, choice of equipment and studio acoustics with a focus on generational effects, comparing three important producers from the early years of German metal with two younger producers of international standing. The findings suggest an incoherent use and multiple connotations of the >Teutonic< metal label. While in the early years it was disparagingly used by foreign media and thus avoided by the German press and German artists, over time it has become a marker for a style of traditional heavy and thrash metal and a marketing term with which record labels and bands serve their own nostalgic longings and those of their fans. One of the veteran producers proudly describes himself as a >Teutonic< metal producer, an image upon which his career is built, and another seasoned producer, although not convinced by stylistic labels, has benefitted from them throughout his career. Even though the younger producers acknowledge the achievements of the producers of the first wave of German metal, they believe that national and cultural characteristics are outdated in today's global metal music industry. For them regionally or culturally associated sonic signatures are relics of the past, since international, remote collaboration is the norm today and music is produced with a standard set of (often digital) tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstrakt:Labels that denote a cultural or regional characteristic are common in the metal music discourse. Based on interviews with five internationally renowned German metal producers, this chapter explores the views of these professionals on the >Teutonic< metal label, examining what it means to them and how it may influence their practices. The study concentrates on selected areas of production such as systematic recording approaches, choice of equipment and studio acoustics with a focus on generational effects, comparing three important producers from the early years of German metal with two younger producers of international standing. The findings suggest an incoherent use and multiple connotations of the >Teutonic< metal label. While in the early years it was disparagingly used by foreign media and thus avoided by the German press and German artists, over time it has become a marker for a style of traditional heavy and thrash metal and a marketing term with which record labels and bands serve their own nostalgic longings and those of their fans. One of the veteran producers proudly describes himself as a >Teutonic< metal producer, an image upon which his career is built, and another seasoned producer, although not convinced by stylistic labels, has benefitted from them throughout his career. Even though the younger producers acknowledge the achievements of the producers of the first wave of German metal, they believe that national and cultural characteristics are outdated in today's global metal music industry. For them regionally or culturally associated sonic signatures are relics of the past, since international, remote collaboration is the norm today and music is produced with a standard set of (often digital) tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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