A video posted online by former Oasis star Noel Gallagher to promote his new High Flying Birds solo album that criticises the current state of contemporary dance music, claiming that “any fucker” can make it.
Gallagher, who topped the charts in 1996 with Chemical Brothers collaboration Setting Sun, talks about his love of Manchester’s infamous Hacienda club and “primitive” dance music: “Every night from ’87 until the band [Oasis] formed in ’91, I was there [at the Hacienda]. That was my life and I loved it.”
However, he blames the advance of technology for weakening the dance music scene, suggesting that new innovations in music production have made the creation of dance tracks too easy and pedestrian.
“I had a house in Ibiza for 12 years, and you could just feel the change one year. From nobody knowing what they were doing with these machines, to somebody mastering it and the machine makers making it easier for people to use” he says. “Dance music sounds like a walk in the park now. Any fucker can do it – and quite frankly, every fucker is doing it.”
He does however sing the praises of "original" tracks such as 'Pacific State' and 'Strings of Life', calling them "amazing pieces of music".
Gallagher adds that dance music only became big business in the 1990s because guitar music had “come to a dead end” and was “going nowhere.”
