Electronic music/synths in contemporary worship band setting

[ChristianRock]

So, here is one of the great hypocracies of modern life: listening and embracing one kind of music through the week, listening to another style on the weekend. The dance aspect is also hard for people to comprehend... not all dancing is sinful. You can jump and shake and smile, laugh, sing, clap and flail about worshipping god and enjoying life without bumping and grinding. I do that every weekend standing in the bleachers. The kids are going to listen to Kesha and crap anyway.... unless you are singing about drinking and partying and encouraging bumping and griding, I don't see contemporary Christian "Trace" as any big deal. Kids might even enjoy a mostly synth arrangement compared to the funeral marches that most grow up believing church music to be... you know, mostly standard chords droned out on a big organ I go to one of those "MTV" style churches* with big projection screens, large sound system, and loud kicking music, and there is a lot of synth, trance/dance style music that plays over the little video snippets... not PERFORMED, just used as background music bed but pretty loud. Here's a bunch of videos, but I'm sorry I can't direct you to one specific example of what I am talking about. But it fits just fine and this congregation is fine with it. http://www.vimeo.com/18858086 Our YOUTH thing is a whole other story. Last I heard it is totally hip music from christian hip hop and raps to really really loud rock music and anything in between. I'm mixed them live before and they like it CONCERT LOUD back there! hahahaha I'm 46 and it was even too loud for me. But it was a great vibe and the kids keep coming back for more. *the spectacle is nice and all, but really, the message is why I keep coming back for more. always relevant to TODAY's world and our real lives, not just verse memorization or repetition

 

Everything about this post is a win.

 

I gotta try and find out if there is any church like that around here. I don't know if there is. I'm quite happy with mine, and I know it's where I'm supposed to be right now. But our megachurches here are much more Hillsong-like in their musical approach, as far as I know...

[Purity_Control]

The so called Nine O'Clock Service over here was supposed to combine anglican worship with dance music, i'm told cutting edge for it's time.

 

The following video might be good for ideas, unfortunately, we only get little bits of their music inbetween the expose on how their priest molested his way through the congregation.

 

[video=youtube;ANRZ_ELqLcE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRZ_ELqLcE

[wwwjd]

we only get little bits of their music inbetween the expose on how their priest molested his way through the congregation.

 

Isn't it great that NO ONE ELSE BUT PRIESTs molest people? Sure makes things easier to track and fix

 

 

wait where's the SARCASM smilie?

[Purity_Control]

it's rather unfortunate, as even for someone that doesn;t care much for the religious stuff or dance music, it sounds like they did an amazing show, and i'd love to see what the rest of it looked like.

 

pity he had to fook it up like that.

[foodeaters]

[video=youtube;B20F0SkaurQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B20F0SkaurQ

[video=youtube;mr6LiibGR2w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr6LiibGR2w

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Most "worship" music I hear is too bland for me to call religious. Gospel singers are still amazing and the theory behind many voices uniting to produce a greater sound is one I can still get behind 100%. The only way I could get behind using dance style music in church is if everyone was dancing and there was no DJ. http://www.ishkur.com/articles/trancecracker.php Haha. A lot of music stuff tied to religion has interesting population control effects. In the olden days churches could make the loudest most dominant sound around either with giant bells or organs.