Sound of the sixties is back! - Full Interview with Daptone Records founder' Gabriel Roth

[@TZD11111]

Gabriel needs to do more interviews. Really a bright guy with a great pallete, sonicallly and aesthetically

[@johndoyle486]

What has really benefitted from.the return to analogue production is the drum sound. Drums sound real again, whereas they used to have a hideous loud upfront digital sound. Kudos to Gabriel and Daptone Records.

[@mariotelaro]

This is such an incredible interview!

[@SpasiboRecords]

Many thanks for such long and detailed intrerview!

[@georgemusic4all4seasons]

Great write up on Mr. Roth in this Sunday’s newspaper, San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

[@vijay.strickland]

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[@richprincipe749]

Truth

[@retromograph3893]

I love the Daptones sound and personally I like very little modern music, but this guy seems to be very ignorant about pop music, most likely cause he already closed his mind to it years ago..... to say music hasn’t evolved in the last 20 years is simply not true, it may not have evolved in a way he likes, but it has evolved just as much as in any other period!

[@outernational]

What year was this interview conducted ?

[@eatabug2]

based on how old he says he is, it was around 2009

[@ncromos]

Not to argue his point about the music business, when he speaks about the music scene being stagnant, about things sounding the same for the last decades (which is not totally true, music evolves or at least changes even though that is irrelevant to the music business - look at Trap, EDM, techno, even pop music, they’ve absolutely changing and evolving all the time), the exact same thing could be said of ‘his’ music! Anyone could tell the difference between stuff from the 60’s and S Jones and the D Kings? One could even argue that if not changing is the sign of death to a genre, his is one of the genres that’s going 6 feet under, along with rock, jazz and some pop music. Dead on on the music business, though. It’s just business. As food business is just business. Or furniture, fish, travel business. Why should music be a different business??? mind you, this is coming from an absolute fan of all kinds of music and a musician as well.

[@niqulusviii987]

Very good point! I'd even go as far to say that if we're upset about "music sounding stale and stagnant" and then create music from a sound that hasn't been popular since the 60s...how did we evolve? Lol remember American Bandstand? When they would rate songs on the show, damn near every record got an average rating and everyone would say "it's good but I wouldn't buy it myself... It's okay but it just sounds like the same ol song." Folks just need exposure to all that's available in music

[@TweezerBleezer123]

His statement is simple. Real musicians in a room reacting to each other. That is what is lost

[@Dandroid5000]

Yeah, but Trap, EDM, techno and pop are all awful forms of 'music'.........the software and sounds may evolve over the years, but what difference does it make when it all sounds like ear cancer?!?