Everything EDM!

2thousand14

I searched around looking for a proper EDM (Electronic Dance Music) thread but couldn't seem to find one so i decided to start this thread.
As in the title i would like have anything about EDM posted here.
From Producer/DJ's such as Hardwell, Avicii, W&W, Blastejaxx, Showtek, Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike etc... (There are so many)
To new releases on beatport, Spotify and Itunes. To new unreleased "ID" tracks.
To the different genres of EDM such as Progressive House, Electro House etc...
To Festivals such as Tomorrowland , UMF, EDC etc...
And also if any EDM artists are coming to perform here in Ireland.
anything at all relevant to EDM is welcomed

Anima

Surely all of the music posted in this forum is electronic dance music?

2thousand14

Anima wrote: »

Surely all of the music posted in this forum is electronic dance music?

I have looked through the forum and could not find anything that was specifically linked to what I have said above so this what this thread is for.

copeyhagen

all the producers you mentioned are more or less hated here, dont think the thread will take off.

milltown

copeyhagen wrote: »

all the producers you mentioned are more or less hated here

As is the term EDM.

2thousand14

line up of Creamfields announced today!

Yo Mamma

That is shockingly bad !

With a few exceptions on the 'All Gone Pete Tong' stage it's a whole lot of EDM Time-Wasters....

copeyhagen

sasha and hot since 82 i would like to see. i presume this is creamfields engerland?!

oh, and IDM > EDM :P

g5fd6ow0hseima

copeyhagen wrote: »

sasha and hot since 82 i would like to see. i presume this is creamfields engerland?!

oh, and IDM > EDM :P

Don't forget EBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_5pK7pwsE

M03 r numb3R5

copeyhagen wrote: »

oh, and IDM > EDM :P

The one term I despise more than EDM...

2thousand14

so why do people have a hate for EDM? i'm curious

francois

2thousand14 wrote: »

so why do people have a hate for EDM? i'm curious

If you love and know electronic music, it's history, the various producers, genres etc, EDM is a complete bastardization of something you love, it appeals to the lowest common denominator, it is the x factor of electronic music.

If you have ever spent a night in a field or a dark basement listening to someone like Robert Hood or Sasha or doc Scott and listen to the way they take you on a musical journey and compare it to a show by the likes of Guetta, where the lights are more important than the tracks -tracks which all follow the same pattern, no variation, no originality, no innovation, no soul no funk
Thats why I hate it

milltown

francois wrote: »

If you love and know electronic music, it's history, the various producers, genres etc, EDM is a complete bastardization of something you love, it appeals to the lowest common denominator, it is the x factor of electronic music.

If you have ever spent a night in a field or a dark basement listening to someone like Robert Hood or Sasha or doc Scott and listen to the way they take you on a musical journey and compare it to a show by the likes of Guetta, where the lights are more important than the tracks -tracks which all follow the same pattern, no variation, no originality, no innovation, no soul no funk
Thats why I hate it

Amen.

Yo Mamma

Perhaps EDM appeals to a middle-American audience traditionally resistant to dance music because it seems to have taken a genre born out of a largely black, largely gay club scene and ruthlessly expunged any lasting sonic evidence of its birthplace. You can hear EDM's style roots in the big stars of 90s electronica, their respective sounds adjusted to cut them adrift from the music that inspired them. It's the Chemical Brothers without their love for hip-hop and Detroit techno; Daft Punk without their deep understanding of Chicago house; the Prodigy without their roots in breakbeat hardcore. What's left is bizarrely unfunky, unambiguous, unsexy and unreconstructedly macho: EDM is a noisy euphoria that makes you think not of the communal transcendence of the dancefloor, but a bloke from sales with his tie wrapped round his head, waving a can of Coors Light in the air and roaring. It's house music that Frankie Knuckles wouldn't understand, but Finchy from The Office would get straight away

This ^^^^^ This is why I hate EDM and everything it stands for !!

mordeith

The thing that annoys me most about it is the idea that it's some sort of new style. Of course a lot of dance music takes inspiration from previous producers and artsts but to me EDM or 'Big Room House' is just modern reworks of Cosmic Gate's 2001 album Rhythm and Drums. Heavy synth lead lines and percussive melodies (Wicked, The Drums, FireWire)

2thousand14

I'm not really talking about "big room house", and to be honest i am not a big fan of it as a lot of what is produced is repetitive. EDM is categorized in to numerous genres. Progressive House i believe is the most beautiful type of music available out there. I can just put on my headphones, lie down, close my eyes and forget about everything! I'll leave you with a few examples below, have a listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLG0rV-ZUIE -Mat Zo & Porter Robinson - Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGYaxYaxD_M -Alesso - Years ft. Matthew Koma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWe19KS-i-c -Alesso & Dirty South - City Of Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q66v9kv1F24 -Otto Knows - Million Voices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-3Lr2_lDMo - Avicii - All You Need Is Love

milltown

I'm sorry, but you're not making the compelling argument you think you are.
I clicked all of the links you posted thinking maybe your idea of what "EDM" is might differ from mine. It didn't. It all sounds like the type of stuff that american kids listen to at marketing festivals while they're dressed in sweets and furry boots.

mordeith

2thousand14 wrote: »

Progressive House i believe is the most beautiful type of music available out there. I can just put on my headphones, lie down, close my eyes and forget about everything! I'll leave you with a few examples below, have a listen

This is someting else I couldn't believe when I heard it, that stuff like the tracks you've posted are classified as 'progressive house'. WTF happened to John Digweed, Sasha, Nick Warren and Satoshi Tomiie?

Yo Mamma

It must be an educational thing; Progressive =

Marcelo Vasami

Jody Wisternoff

John Digweed

Lemon 8

To name but a few....

copeyhagen

i think this guy is trolling.

avicii.. progressive house... theres no way hes that diluded

2thousand14

American Kids? EDM is mainly all european . Those DJ's you have mentioned would not have come across my generation (15-20 year olds)
and they are getting old so i believe EDM is the future. As for the genre, people can argue over what dj is what genre so i believe it is your own opinion. And no i am not trolling
So if you are not interested in EDM Please Leave this thread as the title is "Everything EDM". Thank You!

copeyhagen

but EDM is electronic dance music, which icovers every genre, so your point is invalid.

Yo Mamma

2thousand14 wrote: »

Those DJ's you have mentioned would not have come across my generation (15-20 year olds) and they are getting old so i believe EDM is the future.

After this statement I kinda gave up.....

2thousand14

Yes but i stated at in the first post what exactly i would like to talk about!

old gregg

2thousand14 wrote: »

Yes but i stated at in the first post what exactly i would like to talk about!

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you'll find, you get what you need

kunst nugget

old gregg wrote: »

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you'll find, you get what you need

That sounds like something a poncey old person would say. As a young person I get everything I want right now like quality DJs like David Guetta and Avicii by watching youtube.

old gregg

kunst nugget wrote: »

That sounds like something a poncey old person would say. As a young person I get everything I want right now like quality DJs like David Guetta and Avicii by watching youtube.

In truth my knowledge of electric dancing music is limited. I normally listen to The Eagles but did go on youtube once and typed in 'dancing music with a bounce'. The result was DJ Beauty. By golly I like that very much, a fine filly too.

2thousand14

As a young person I get everything I want right now like quality DJs like David Guetta and Avicii by watching youtube.

Not all young people are into David Guetta and i for one am definetly not, I hate his music. And as for avicii i love his old stuff but wasnt a huge fan of his last album.

ironclaw

2thousand14 wrote: »

Not all young people are into David Guetta and i for one am definetly not, I hate his music. And as for avicii i love his old stuff but wasnt a huge fan of his last album.

Considering Guetta marketed Afrojack, and Tiesto marketed Hardwell. Its pretty universally accepted that Avicii's music was produced / written by his manager (Ash) and he had to be thought to DJ.

So what does all that have in common? Older, wiser commercial DJs promoting younger DJs (From whom they will be taking a slice) with the sole intention of making money. If I had €10+ million, I'd be pumping it into the US EDM market right now. Your return would be massive. Even look at Tiesto, trance for 20+ years. And then, around 2009, you had Kaleidoscope which was further refined to the 'Club Life' brand. Why? Purely for the commercial aspect. Have you ever heard of Armin Van Buuren? Probably not. He's never been on the Irish Top 40. Himself and Tiesto we're pretty much head to head at one stage in the trance scene. Tiesto just wanted more money. Yet both are branded 'EDM' now.

'EDM' is just a phrase made up by the marketing people who promote the likes of Tomorrowland / Ultra for the 'PLUR' generation. Its purely about the money. Nothing else. EDM is what rap / hip hop was in the early 2000s. It will all come around again in 10 years.

Listen to what you like, but some day, stick on some decent headphones and listen to the past 2 years of 'EDM' mainstream tracks. Its all the exact same. Even some of the chords and drops are the same. Contrast that to if you went digging in Bearport and you might actually learn something about music. Listen to an Eric Prydz mix, thats talent in my opinion.

T1M3 of ur L1F3

i'd nearly be sure this was a top 20 hit back in '99/2000

kunst nugget

2thousand14 wrote: »

Not all young people are into David Guetta and i for one am definetly not, I hate his music. And as for avicii i love his old stuff but wasnt a huge fan of his last album.

Yeah, I prefer Avicii's earlier stuff as well. I think I'm bit of a hipster like that.

D_turbo

Is there a trance section in this Forum?

Hate Most of the " MaintStream EDM" atm. Avicii, Guetta, Hardwell, Alesso, Afrojack
But its been drifting into Trance Music with a while but not as bad.
W and W if any one is into trance went from Good trance to terrible electro womp womp Muck, Dissapointing, but its where the money is

BofaDeezNuhtz

Yo Mamma wrote: »

It's the Chemical Brothers without their love for hip-hop and Detroit techno; Daft Punk without their deep understanding of Chicago house; the Prodigy without their roots in breakbeat hardcore. What's left is bizarrely unfunky, unambiguous, unsexy and unreconstructedly macho: EDM is a noisy euphoria that makes you think not of the communal transcendence of the dancefloor, but a bloke from sales with his tie wrapped round his head

Ahh Heeyooor! Very racist thread imho, they can get down too yannow :mad:

barryd09

I'm pretty sure armins latest 'tune" was in the Irish top 40, I heard it on commercial radio quite a lot over the last few months.

EDM is all over Ibiza now too, Ushuaia have edm/commercial 6 out of 7 nights now.
I'm really beginning to wonder what happens when the EDM bubble bursts? And it will. Teens will move on to the next fad or whatever music is popular next and I think a lot of these 'newfound' dance fans are only passing through to be honest. There's no soul or atmosphere in the commercial & EDM music & gigs, there'll never be a Carl cox, Frankie knuckles, john digweed, Sven vath etc etc etc to emerge from it & go on to have a huge successful career spanning 20-30 years. It's pants created by American suits for American kids & it's working.

Sure Martin garrix played the halftime show during the man utd/Liverpool game in the states a few weeks back

It's also why Simon cowell is working on a dj xfactor style show for a while now.

The other fella

2thousand14 wrote: »

I searched around looking for a proper EDM (Electronic Dance Music) thread but couldn't seem to find one so i decided to start this thread.
As in the title i would like have anything about EDM posted here.
From Producer/DJ's such as Hardwell, Avicii, W&W, Blastejaxx, Showtek, Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike etc... (There are so many)
To new releases on beatport, Spotify and Itunes. To new unreleased "ID" tracks.
To the different genres of EDM such as Progressive House, Electro House etc...
To Festivals such as Tomorrowland , UMF, EDC etc...
And also if any EDM artists are coming to perform here in Ireland.
anything at all relevant to EDM is welcomed

Showtek FTS!!! Happy ****ing times!!

Synode

barryd09 wrote: »

EDM is all over Ibiza now too

Was in Ibiza for 5 nights in June and have to say the music was absolutely dreadful. It pretty much consists of a big build up, bass drum (with some big room noise) for 30 seconds, rinse and repeat ad nauseum. Thank god Space and Amnesia had second rooms with decent tunes.

barryd09

Synode wrote: »

Was in Ibiza for 5 nights in June and have to say the music was absolutely dreadful. It pretty much consists of a big build up, bass drum (with some big room noise) for 30 seconds, rinse and repeat ad nauseum. Thank god Space and Amnesia had second rooms with decent tunes.

Ah it's avoidable. We spent 6 out of 7 nights out & encountered no edm whatsoever.
What did you go to?

copeyhagen

when the edm bubble bursts all the hipsters wil lgo back to their emo music.

Arnold Tanzarian

copeyhagen wrote: »

when the edm bubble bursts all the hipsters wil lgo back to their emo music.

hopefully

Synode

barryd09 wrote: »

Ah it's avoidable. We spent 6 out of 7 nights out & encountered no edm whatsoever.
What did you go to?

• First night Pasha. We weren't planning on going out out as we had tickets pre booked for the second night. David Guetta was playing and he was absolutely shíte.

• Second night Privilege which was a bit better but not by much.

• Third night Amnesia which was class in one of the rooms. Other room was shíte

• Fourth night Space. Was good but a bit of a let down as they had half the place closed. Was there in the early 2000's and it was savage.

Last night I was a quivering mess so stayed clear of the clubs.

kunst nugget

copeyhagen wrote: »

when the edm bubble bursts all the hipsters wil lgo back to their emo music.

Are the hipsters not all listening to deep house?

DjembaDjemba

kunst nugget wrote: »

Are the hipsters not all listening to deep house?

yup seems that way. It was grand about 6 months ago, but now all you here is monotonous deep house baselines in lots of places that all sound the same with no originality. and bless the little kids souls who are all jumping on the deep house bandwagon. They think deep house is somewhat underground and non mainstream.

Rough Sleeper

copeyhagen wrote: »

when the edm bubble bursts all the hipsters wil lgo back to their emo music.

Dude, hipsters listen to acts like Animal Collective and Xiu Xiu, not Hardwell and Bullet for my Valentine. Emo and EDM are about as hip as showbands and social conservatism.

Rough Sleeper

2thousand14 wrote: »

I'm not really talking about "big room house", and to be honest i am not a big fan of it as a lot of what is produced is repetitive. EDM is categorized in to numerous genres. Progressive House i believe is the most beautiful type of music available out there. I can just put on my headphones, lie down, close my eyes and forget about everything! I'll leave you with a few examples below, have a listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLG0rV-ZUIE -Mat Zo & Porter Robinson - Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGYaxYaxD_M -Alesso - Years ft. Matthew Koma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWe19KS-i-c -Alesso & Dirty South - City Of Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q66v9kv1F24 -Otto Knows - Million Voices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-3Lr2_lDMo - Avicii - All You Need Is Love

Turn-of-the-century trance did the whole emotional chord progression with 4/4 beat 15 yeas ago, and it did it better.