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in a club do you waltz to a melody or do you dance to a beat?

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Originally posted by elFreak in a club do you waltz to a melody or do you dance to a beat?

Both

Honestly, I hear plenty of melody.

I understand what you say, in a matter of fact when i go to a club i just want to dance to some good groove and nothing else.



But this is not ONLY EDM is about. As with every kind of music there should be degrees of "musicality". Weren't thee good times when you got the "substantial" stuff like Leftfield and Underworld together with the pure dance stuff?



And wtf man, i can't even dance to many of these records from most of these labels. Where are the grooves and the funk? Am i supossed to dance to this "bleep-click" crap? I guess that music has become completely cold, souless and detached and it is destined for heavy drugs or something. I can see (and listen) that EDM is pretty fucked-up as a genre, going through very dark times.

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Originally posted by enydo Honestly, I hear plenty of melody.

Recommend me

Clink
Dumb Unit
Ghostly
Ransom Note
Drumcode
and many others...

oh man...you so play air piano when dancing don't you

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Originally posted by PETRAN Recommend me

I just meant in general, throughout most electronic music I hear these days. Although, it's usually not a straightforward melody, sometimes it's just what you say, repetitive noises that in my eyes still have a very subtle melody to them. Whether I'm just interpreting this in my head, or it was intentional, I still hear a lot of "melody". Might just be me though.

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Originally posted by enydo I just meant in general, throughout most electronic music I hear these days. Although, it's usually not a straightforward melody, sometimes it's just what you say, repetitive noises that in my eyes still have a very subtle melody to them. Whether I'm just interpreting this in my head, or it was intentional, I still hear a lot of "melody". Might just be me though.

After 2 Hofmanns those minimal records can even sound like "Also Sprach Zarathustra"










Its just you obviously lol

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Originally posted by Sykonee Ultimae

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Originally posted by PETRAN After 2 Hofmanns those minimal records can even sound like "Also Sprach Zarathustra" Its just you obviously lol

I suppose so yeah, but I think that's what attracts me to a lot of that music. There seems to be kind of a space for interpretation and that's really exciting to me.

Perlon
Ostgut Ton

Mole Listening Pearls
Lemongrassmusic
Sonar Kollektiv
Winding Road
Freude Am Tanzen
Versatile
Eskimo
Dessous
Innervisions
Drumpoet Community
Compost
20:20 Vision
Mantis
Mule Musiq
2600 Records
Paper Recordings
F Communications

i can't promise that the releases i liked were from last year though. i have a tendency to ignore the new and dig for older gems. most of the stuff i really loved last year wasn't even from last year.

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Originally posted by elFreak CDR

Crosstown Digital Rebels? They don't have that many releases

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Originally posted by PETRAN Seriously now, is there any modern EDM with melody except for the usual epic and progressive trance? With melody i don't mean some random 2-note segment over the "bleep-click" sequence. Because i begin to think that modern EDM is pretty much dead melodic-wise.

There is good melodic dance music these days, however you won't find it on top of hipster's charts or recommended in cool new techno threads. You'll have to find it on your own and it'll be harder than 15 years ago (when Leftfield and Underworld were mainstream) since modern dance music heads towards heavy minimization and demelodization (yeah, I made up that word). But the real question is why do you want melodic dance music, when there's shitload of non-dancey melodic and unmelodic music that sounds a hundred times better (and it's not restrained with that stupid four-to-the-floor)? But whatever, here is couple of melodic and not so standard dancey tracks from 2008 I found interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1TilbA7U0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIUf1c0ck-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43A5SZyko-Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrv0F-WTio4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK3ED1z2WK4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkGUGXuPoeU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr6Xb7UzVI0

Some more (couldn't find the videos):
Omar-S - The Further You Look - The Less You Will See
The Black Dog - Train By The Autobahn (Part 3)
Los Hermanos - Central Nervous System
Obsolete Music Technology - Evening Star
Derek Carr - Sis

Ghostly/Spectral

Connaisseur Cecile Kompakt Traum Rekids Ostgut ton Oslo Wagon Repair Modern Love.

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Originally posted by elFreak oh man...you so play air piano when dancing don't you

ive got an air piano and an air drumset and drum machine

sometimes i have an air equalizer too

i go to a club with a whistle.

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery To be honest I rarely even check what label releases are on.

Me to, never really did in the past 20 years.
Think I was a real 'compilation' buyer. Many labels on those.

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Originally posted by elFreak CDR

Early days but gotta say I am liking the releases on Christopher Lawrence's label Pharmacy so far

cecille and oslo had pretty nice releases

I forgot Circus Company, the Dave Aju releases were gold.

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Originally posted by wotyzoid I forgot Circus Company, the Dave Aju releases were gold.

"I Was on my Way to Hell" FTW!

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