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Posted by Ian on Jan-29-2011 13:31:

dammit. 9 genres I could do something for easily, and I get one of the few I know nothing about. Hopefully nobody else does either, I often hear autonomic as being called 'new idm' so I might just wing it

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Jan-29-2011 13:58:

Autonomic is not IDM. You bring drum 'n bass pointlessly in every other thread, don't bring it up in this mix.

Posted by ziptnf on Jan-29-2011 14:03:

SHIT, Hardstyle? UGH. I hope there's some stuff out there that's more like proper hard trance rather than the clubby shit with a random dude speaking over the track.

Posted by Ian on Jan-29-2011 14:14:

quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Autonomic is not IDM. You bring drum 'n bass pointlessly in every other thread, don't bring it up in this mix.

it's not idm, but it's "like" it in some ways. I know 2 Aphex Twin tracks and that's it for what's considered IDM. pozz speaks about being able to fuse other things into it but I don't get how it'd be ok to do that with techno or electro & not with something else.

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Jan-29-2011 14:36:

That's because IDM came out of those genres. In the early 90s a lot of producers started putting out weird ambient or experimental B-sides, and IDM basically started when Warp Records was formed as a place just for those weird tracks people were making. Note that pozz says "anything else kinda weird from that era". Autonomic is a brand new trend, it's about a year old, there is no way you can argue it's what pozz is talking about.

And seriously, IDM is one of the easiest genres to research. Even the old stuff is mostly still in print, and all of it has been extensively written about. You can walk into your local HMV and find a dozen IDM albums.

If someone who has been listening to electronic music for as long as you seriously doesn't own or know any IDM apart from two Aphex Twin tracks, it's about time you caught up on some musical education. We all know you're very proud of your daring transition from trance to drum 'n bass, but you've got a great opportunity to dig into one of the most important and influential styles of electronic music.

Posted by Rodri Santos on Jan-29-2011 14:44:

Posted by Ian on Jan-29-2011 14:55:

Regardless of how 'easy' it is to find, I was hoping to get drawn into a genre that I know a bit about already and have stuff of already. I have no money to go buying tracks just for one set, but a good collection of stuff that would fill many of the other genres requirements.

New or not, I don't think something like this would sound too far out of place amongst what I've heard so far. Just luck of the draw, montana, Lews & sand leaper can pull sets from their respective genres out of their arses at anytime and make them sound good. I also note that Lews vetoed UK Funky but it got drawn out still.

Posted by Mr Game+Watch on Jan-29-2011 15:06:

Oh man, if only I could trade with Magadansky

I don't know much about psytrance, but it's a fairly easy genre to research and it's one I don't mind... so this should be interesting.

Posted by ziptnf on Jan-29-2011 15:15:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch
Oh man, if only I could trade with Magadansky .

I wouldn't mind trading with someone. I'm not wanting psytrance, but maybe we can squeeze in a trade before the game actually starts? Hardstyle was one of the few genres I actively didn't want.

Edit: Meh, I suppose I'll just stick with it. Trading kinda defeats the purpose.

Posted by Meat187 on Jan-29-2011 15:40:

No trading please, guys. There is no point in randomly assigning genres if people start trading to get something they like better.

Posted by Woony on Jan-29-2011 18:39:

quote:
Originally posted by ziptnf
SHIT, Hardstyle? UGH. I hope there's some stuff out there that's more like proper hard trance rather than the clubby shit with a random dude speaking over the track.

Yes, there is. There was this one sick youtube channel with lots of oldschool hardtrance-ish Hardstyle tracks but I forget the name

This is how it should sound for me, even though the late 90s stuff is often more hardtrance-ish. The very early stuff obviously sounds like gabba/hardcore.

Posted by Rodri Santos on Jan-29-2011 20:23:

as a guideline i'd prefer that you stick to the more melodic and trancey side of hardstyle instead of the dirty bassline hardstyle that is common now (i have listened to a set of qlimax 2010 and shit this genre has gone downhill too) seeing your comments i think you'd prefer this too so both happy.

Posted by RebeL9 on Jan-29-2011 20:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Woonyxoxo
Yes, there is. There was this one sick youtube channel with lots of oldschool hardtrance-ish Hardstyle tracks but I forget the name

This is how it should sound for me, even though the late 90s stuff is often more hardtrance-ish. The very early stuff obviously sounds like gabba/hardcore.

Really shitty tune. And there IS a random fag speaking in a dark voice in the track. Seriously. Is there any hardstyle without those idiots speaking in the tracks? How serious can it be when you hear "I AM YOUR BASS INSTRUCTOR!" in every damn track.

Posted by Meat187 on Jan-29-2011 20:54:

quote:
Originally posted by RebeL9
How serious can it be when you hear "I AM YOUR BASS INSTRUCTOR!" in every damn track.

Why does Hardstyle have to be serious?

Posted by RebeL9 on Jan-29-2011 21:02:

quote:
Originally posted by Meat187
Why does Hardstyle have to be serious?

It's Hard so it gotta be rock hard serious!

Posted by Rodri Santos on Jan-29-2011 21:06:

Although Hardstyle possibly was considered but a lot of you an easy genre it is not that easy, i am not a huge fan of this, just have a select bunch of songs in my collection but most of the tracks you'll find will have the same snare rolls, pounding kicks and triplets.

I can expand a bit the net, you can introduce some hardcore if it is easier for you since nobody picked it and both are around the same bpms.

Something like:

Posted by Meat187 on Jan-29-2011 21:13:

quote:
Originally posted by RebeL9
It's Hard so it gotta be rock hard serious!

Posted by Magadansky on Jan-29-2011 21:57:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr Game+Watch
Oh man, if only I could trade with Magadansky

I don't know much about psytrance, but it's a fairly easy genre to research and it's one I don't mind... so this should be interesting.

Hehe... UK Garage is a genre I've never even heard about so I guess I have to do quite a bit of research. My mix probably will be short though since I dont own atm a single UK garage record and can't afford to buy a lot of things. Dont expect beauties

Posted by mr2gti on Jan-29-2011 22:16:

Vocal house eh...

...Okie dokies - Expect a "Name me some tracks" thread

. Unlucky Pozz lol

Posted by Sand Leaper on Jan-30-2011 00:53:

Sigh. Am I EVER going to get a genre I hardly ever play in these challenges? That said, I've not made an ambient set for quite a while now, so at least I can get back into that.

Posted by mr2gti on Jan-30-2011 15:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Sand Leaper
Sigh. Am I EVER going to get a genre I hardly ever play in these challenges? That said, I've not made an ambient set for quite a while now, so at least I can get back into that.

I was gonna suggest "Skiffle" lol

Posted by Sand Leaper on Jan-30-2011 16:24:

quote:
Originally posted by mr2gti
I was gonna suggest "Skiffle" lol

Seeing as hip hop didn't count as "EDM" when I tried to suggest it, I severely doubt that you'd get very far with skiffle.

Then again, disco counts in here, which is far less "electronic" than hip hop. Go figure.

Posted by Mr Game+Watch on Jan-30-2011 19:32:

Been looking around, I had a few psytrance songs sitting on my computer from way back, but I found a variety of stuff recently. This might actually come fairly decently, I wonder what the psy heads will think when I'm done. There is one song in particular that I found that is DEFINITELY going on my mix.

Posted by pozz on Jan-30-2011 19:58:

Posted by Mr Game+Watch on Jan-30-2011 20:18:

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