'Electronic Dance Music' in America - what's the fuss about?

You need to do more ecstacy. It will all make more sense.

 

EDM sux. IDM is legit tho.

 

Worst is when people say they are big into EDM and then mention that Skrillex is their favorite artist. It's not even dubstep, but rather bro step. The lowest form of the whole genre. Bro step is the bastardized Americanized version of dubstep while has been big in the UK for over a decade. College frat kids here in the USA lap this stuff up like it is something revolutionary.

 

Lulz bro step. If you can picture some jersey shore roid rager fist pumping like a moron to it, then it probably sucks.

 

I've been getting into electronic/instrumental music a lot more lately. Some cools songs I have recently discovered that some people may already know about:

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I aint even going to lie, this is on my get "psych mix"
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He who is free of guilty pleasures may cast the first glow stick.

 

Damn was I passed when armin came to Houston and I didn't go

 

"Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom, hear my clarion call. Anointeth thyself with gel and heavenly body spray. Maketh the sign of the devil horns with thine hands. Let there be high fiving and the hugging of many bros, for this is the kingdom and the power." -- Anthony Bourdain, on the EDM scene

 

yeah I definitely think drugs were involved.

it was popular here too.

Look at the thread about Numbers that folks are posting in right in this same forum:
http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=152250

Anyway I know it as techno but I guess I am old.

 

Trance was my first love.. but into House these days as well.

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Good song.

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Raver girls switching from outfits consisting of baggy JNCOs and puffy vests to bras and panties.

In all seriousness, the scene has changed a lot the production values of DJ sets are 100X higher. I've been listening to EDM since the early 90s and didn't go to my first EDM event until last year (Swedish House Mafia's One Last Tour) and it was freaking amazing. DJ events are no longer a bunch of people crammed into a dirty basement glow sticking in a circle of friends (which is what is was like when I was in college).

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Been listening to house music since the 90s/00's. The genre has evolved, and I'm finally glad that EDM has finally hit America..especially Texas. You can hear all the EDM stuff on the coasts but Texas (like in other aspects of life) lags on what's hip by like 1-2 years. My personal favorites are Bob Sinclar and David Guetta in the mid 2000's.

Anyone remember this gem from the late 90's?

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Pretty much this lol. Do some ex or LSD and listen to some EDM, you'll probably pretty much instantly understand and feel it. A good artist I would recommend is Haywyre, specifically his album "The Voyage." I'm at work otherwise I'd share a youtube link.

 

No thanks.

I don't want permanent brain damage.

 

I'm in the same boat as you. I don't find it amusing. Its just "IN" right now. People are gonna move away from it by 3-4 years. People tend to do whats in style rather than what they want.

 

I think it's been popular for more than 4 years already.

 

I've been jamming house/euphoric-trance since the early 2000's.

only my best friends would be able to tell someone that I listen to that genre, because I only listen to things like that when I'm in the zone, by myself.

Just like anything else, it becomes annoying if you constantly put it in people's faces.

 

EDM is an American invention.

basically a spin off of disco

(I'm a big fan, by the way)

 

became extremely popular about a year or so ago tho..

You'd never see so many posts about EDM before this.