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| Originally posted by s3nate However some of my friends like drum and bass which is the closest they will ever get to EDM. |
u know it's interesting...
i get a lot of the same shit here, from people in my university...
BUT! some of them always see me listening to trance 24/7. they also know that's what i DJ, and that i've never really tried to DJ rnb (so it's like.... 
wtf, RnB is the cool music)
eventually, some of them get curious...
one of them asked me to let him listen to some of my shit... so i disconnected my headphones, and let it play out of the laptop speakers( i was listening to PAul VAN DYK LIVE @ AMNESIA 2002), and he liked nothing but u.
about 1 week later i gave him some commeercially/cheesey sounding stuff from Paul Van Dyk - Reflections...
a few weeks later, he had gotten hold of some of his own paul van dyk stuff. then i gave him something less cheesy (than reflections), DJ TIESTO- PARADE OF THE ATHLETES..
at first, he hated the repition. But i forced him to just listen for a while... after the breakdown, he said he wanted to keep CD for a while. i lent him a few of my CDS.
anyways... this started a chain reaction... and now a couple of ppl in my year (class of about 40-50)are starting to get into trance. ALthough they mighn't love it yet... atleast they are now open-minded to it.
whoever said that u leave a big impression hit the nail on the fucking head.
anyways. if someone listening to RnB tells u that trance ("techno") is just repetitive shit, made by a computer, then just tell them it's a hell of a lot more advanced than some guy talking about how great he is, with one instrument looped in the background.
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| Originally posted by Aiwendil There is no BUT. Because eventually....I...will HAVE...THE POWERRRRR! |
I occasionally got teased for listening to EDM, but equally as often I found that some people who didn't realize they'd like it were quite receptive to trance, house, or whatever. Most of the time the problem is just ignorance, which I can't really hold against someone.
Nowadays I've been listening to a lot of metal, for which I get made fun of almost as much as I did for trance! So you can't really escape it, unless you listen to exactly what everyone else does. I like being known as the guy with the ecclectic musical taste, anyway. It's part of my character.
its been a long time since anyone around here has picked on EDM. I live in the northern va/DC area and hip hop and mainstream is so bad nowadays no one really cares for it anymore.
A lot of ppl do like goin to clubs to dance and the EDM clubs here are far less drama than the hip hop ones.
I haven't been ripped-on for being an EDM person for a while, nor do I know many people who listen to EDM.
I too have found that if I say I listen to EDM people automatically assume it's that radio remixed crap that you get on CD's in the bargain bin at Walmart marked "Trance Party 2005" or somesuch. (true story) There've been times, though, that I've been able to sit a friend or two down and show them something they end up enjoying. There are still the people that protest "but trance is still so repetitive! I got through my entire folder of DJ Mystik tracks and I still don't like it!" (sarcasm intended) but hey, you can't change 'em all! 
I still live in the residence halls at school due to it being a requirement of my job, and I do get some funny looks when I have my door open and people walking by can hear what I'm listening to. Makes me chuckle a little.
I've often been on the receiving end of strange looks when I tell people what I listen to; either they look at me as if I were a hedgehog playing a ukelele or they say "oh. that's cool." and bugger off. Guess it doesn't help that my two favorite genres are EDM and metal.. 
. The fact is my musical taste is just way bizarre to most people, and I couldn't care less really what they think about it.
The only thing that sucks is I meet very few people whose taste and passion for music overlaps with mine. That's why I come to places like TA, though, to find people as crazy as me... 
in everyone elses eyes im just that weird techo dj.wouldnt have it any other way. people dont care to listen
about types of music they dont like
i see someone mentioned that here in Miami it's mainstream. Well, in a way it's not. For some reason it's hard for me to find people who like edm down here. Through highschool I had only like 3 friends that actually listened to it. Down you here you ask anybody if they know what trance is and they're like...wtf??? lol. damn it's sad really, all i can think to myself is, "damn, they're missing out".
We have a number of clubs that are dedicated to edm(like Space) but for the most part, you'd be hard-pressed to find edm heads walking around the streets. we had that radio station 93.1 that tried to bring edm to the mainstream but all they played was cheese and that ended up giving people who didn't know about it a horrid idea of this music....
People are always afraid of what they don't understand, hence the negative feedback. This goes for almost any issue.
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| Originally posted by stevieboy32808 People are always afraid of what they don't understand, hence the negative feedback. This goes for almost any issue. |
dis is redicullase. stop it. 
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| Originally posted by sEpH ohhh.... thats why im afraid of Crazy Frog |
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| Originally posted by Numidia Could it be argued that the average person in Canada is even more clueless about EDM than in the US? At least the US has Miami where EDM is fairly mainstream from what i've heard. There is no Miami equivalent in Canada. Anyways, I'm just throwing that idea out there I dno if it's true. |
back in the early 80s i used to always listen to the disco music at teh clubs. Today i enjoy a bit of the music thats comming out. Alot of it is monotonous. But some intresting ideas have developed. Dont let people try to change your opinion, be yourself and enjoy the music you like because it makes you feel good.
I grew up listening to mostly hip-hop. One day, someone took me to a legendary, dark, afterhours club called Sona while some guy named Max Graham was spinning...never looked back since.
A lot people see me as the guy who listens to "techno" all the time. They bash EDM because they think its the cheese that you see on tv and hear on the radio. I made a few friends of mine who always hated on EDM smoke a little something one day, made them sit in my car and made them shut up while i played John Digweed - Live @ Homelands 2001. All 3 of my friends told me this after about half an hour: "WTF man, it's like i went on a journey". Rhe difference between other styles of music and EDM is that a clip of a song does not justify an EDM song. You cannot judge a book by its cover. If you hear a snippet of a EDM song, you wont catch the breakdowns and buildups and effects as the song progresses. People don't see the chnages during a track because they are hearing and not listening. There is a difference beyween the 2. I don't see how it is possible for someone who likes to dance to not like EDM if they actually listened to it. Your body just starts moving, naturally. Someone posted on here that they made one of their n00b friends a cheesy PVD cd and that later on, that peron became a fan. Thats my trick also, give them some cheese, and they will come back for the macaroni...that was a fucking retarded line...i know.
I dont bother trying to explain what EDM is, all gets stereotypical then someone says "like DJ Sammy?". 
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| Originally posted by Revolute "like DJ Sammy?". |
back in bangladesh, the villagers burned down our house cause they found out i listen to progressive house
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| Originally posted by Aiwendil But I do take some abuse for listening to EDM. Their abuse only makes me stronger. In a few months i'll be strong enough to deflect meteors from an earth-colliding path by blowing in their general direction and make tall women cum in a single thrust. |
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| Originally posted by eLeKtRoEcStAtiK well all i can say is that most people who listen to EDM have already listened to all that other stuff and have grown out of a lot of it, so really, we're much more intelectually advanced |
HOT TOPIC!
yes in general electronic music is an evolving sound that listeners are starting to arppriciate more. but most information about the origins go unheard to everyone to understand the birth of electronic music/music technology. electronic music is what created what we listen to today of any genre because of someones greAT programming skills in 1950!
i think will be a while till people know about true electronic music and then we will be able to see our true PIONEERS of this form.
like you know when you watch a documentary on birth of rock etc. the people who made it a reality. well in a long time we will hopefully see these people in that position giving these people wide public credit.
they deserve it so much, the elctronic music technology goes to much unheard of something needs to be done to educate people about this revolution for people.
remember for people with your i pod's etc imagine if they had not made that sound on a computer. you may not be listening or making music as technology would be delayed.
i think its about time electronic side of music be heard for without being always passed on as a useless conversation and actually think what it has done for people.
the people who grill any type of music in my opinion are very arrogant, music is music so you should atleast have the patience to appriciate a genre regardless.
that seems the way for society now, i wonder if it might be in most people one day to not flam others music because it is cooler or what ever. still there will be songs you will dislike.
IN MY OPINION MOST CAN ARGUE THAT ALL MUSIC IN ELECTRONIC IN A WAY VIA ITS MEANS ALSO!
And yes i do find it hard as someone said before about talking to girls or even boys, its hard to describe where us TA's are coming from music wise. the will find out eventualy as peoples music tastes change so give it time for them to find out, also give them a mix cd of some good songs that you think they may like!
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| LOL!!! So true! I agree. I get abuse a lot, but sometimes people show respect as well - I addicted at least a dozen people to at least one genre of electronic dance music in the past few years. Those who respect my EDM are people who know me or like me, and I generally get along with many people that I come across. |
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| Originally posted by Nightscape back in bangladesh, the villagers burned down our house cause they found out i listen to progressive house |
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