It's Called a Dance Floor

Re:It's Called a Dance Floor by wmeredith on Monday November 04, 2024 @11:04AM (#42042811)

Pound-for-pound, Vogue by Madonna is one of the most remarkable examples of artificial stereophonic sound ever produced.

As a lover of hi-fi, Madonna wasn't really on my radar until someone steered me toward this gem. After about 50 listens and some really interesting research on QSound (the tech used to produce it), I ended up featuring it in my hi-fi music recommendation newsletter.

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Re:It's Called a Dance Floor by peterldowns on Monday November 04, 2024 @12:22PM (#42043781)

Thanks for submitting this here, very cool article — I hadn't heard of QSound before.

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Re:It's Called a Dance Floor by empath75 on Monday November 04, 2024 @01:47PM (#42044783)

I don't know, I always thought it sounded simplistic, cheap and dated, even at the time. Placing stuff in the stereo field has been bog standard music production since the 70s. Q sound adds a _little_ bit to it, but somewhat importantly if you are actually listening to this song in a dance club it's all completely lost, a lot of clubs don't have any kind of stereo separation.

Just compare it to stuff that was coming out of the acid house scene at the same time (yes i know this song isn't really acid house -- but it does have a lot of fun stereo effects):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qexS5hBB1C0

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Re:It's Called a Dance Floor by _DeadFred_ on Monday November 04, 2024 @03:41PM (#42045787)

A lot of stereo/3d stuff translates differently to each listener. Q sound might not work for you the way it does for others (none of the 3d sound stuff seems to work for me).

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Re:It's Called a Dance Floor by djborschtbeets on Monday November 04, 2024 @05:10PM (#42046524)

You can't just throw out Orb and expect me not to get extremely excited. Now I have to listen to this entire youtube performance. THANKS.

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Re:It's Called a Dance Floor by magicalhippo on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @07:37AM (#42051036)

IMHO Orbital - The Box (part 2) works even better[1].

Some of the sounds are clearly behind me, to my sides, or surrounding me. And things move around.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGvFObnwKNc

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Re:It's Called a Dance Floor by helboi4 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @10:15AM (#42052118)

Really nice track

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Re:It's Called a Dance Floor by helboi4 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @10:17AM (#42052123)

Yeah I agree as an electronic music fan the idea that this track is particularly special in terms of digital stereo even at that time seems weird to me.

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Re:It's Called a Dance Floor by allturtles on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @11:26AM (#42052822)

Some cool stereo effects, but not something I'd ever want to listen to. I don't see anything interesting about putting nature sounds and a Pink Floyd sample over a very repetitive electronic loop. Maybe I didn't get far enough, since it's 20 goddamn minutes long. To me, Vogue is ear candy. De gustibus!

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