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for me Trance from 2000-2004. Then I realized there were other genre's of electronica(breakbeat, happy hardcore, house) and after some major listening I started to find some great tracks that def changed my mind set. If I ever get bored or sick of a certain style of music I will just switch up the genre and if I hear a great EDM song I will blast that still.

IMO: In an style of music(rock, hip-hop, country, even polka) if you heard a particular song you actually might enjoy it. I love EDM but then I could listen to wall flowers - like One head light or even

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Originally posted by RJT Requirement to be "Electronic" music: Must be made with electrons. Requirement to be "Electronic Dance Music": Must be made with dancing electrons.

That makes me want to change my sig!

Most people on here seem to agree that you CAN have "too much of a good thing" (that is if you consider EDM a 'good thing'). I guess that's generally true with all things in life. People will always have phases. Why do you think there is used DJ equipment for sale or music collections on Ebay etc. True, some people need to sell that stuff to make some money, but I'm sure there are an equal number of people who simply don't care about it anymore.

As for musical taste, I would argue that people who have a very narrow preference in music are SEVERELY limiting themselves. Just like people who ONLY like country or metal are closing themselves off, so too are people who ONLY listen to EDM or worse ONLY trance. Music cannot be experienced in a vacuum. Music from one genre influences others. If you take the latest 'sound' from a pop song, you can probably trace it back to it's origin in underground or indie or non-mainstream music.

I agree with the people on here who have said that one should listen to the music that they like. Listening to music should give you pleasure and if you don't feel like listening to EDM and instead rocking out to some Nirvana or hip-hop or classical or whatever, then all the power to you. I also think everyone should have some 'guilty pleasures', i.e. the music you don't really admit you like or know the words to. I sometimes indulge in pop-punk when no one is listening... oops. I've said too much.

Shit

I like how most people is like 3 people in this thread.

Although admitably the less you like trance the more you post here...

Internet seriously playing up

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I dance to ambient after I've taken enough diphenhydramine.

What, like Brian Eno?

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Well I said electronica... not "electronic music"

"Electronica" is a term useless because of its extreme ambiguity. It's a media buzzword, and the Wikipedia article on it even admits that it was made up by MTV and its ilk. I wish people would just quit using it.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles "Electronica" is a term useless because of its extreme ambiguity. It's a media buzzword, and the Wikipedia article on it even admits that it was made up by MTV and its ilk. I wish people would just quit using it.

I wish people would just quit using it..in English.

Is the Dutch word for "electronics", though meanwhile the first "c" is changed to a "k". You may forget this, I was a bit bored.

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Originally posted by Atron84 Why do you think there is used DJ equipment for sale or music collections on Ebay etc. True, some people need to sell that stuff to make some money, but I'm sure there are an equal number of people who simply don't care about it anymore.

Speaking of which - is anyone looking to buy a barely used and well maintained pair of CDJ-200s?

Cbf finding the post the above poster qouted but anyway:

What about the people who never cared about it and just thought djing was really cool?

djing is really cool

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Originally posted by Project-K

So...still bored of EDM?

Yup.

Nowhere near bored with this forum though.

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Originally posted by Project-K Yup.

What are you into now?

In my "tired of EDM" phase I've been listening to lots of classical and some ambient, and even dipping into jazz, which I still haven't "got" yet.

When I think of all the genres and artists I've still to explore, I don't see how anyone could have time to get bored of all of EDM.

Been listening to some old bluesey rock, some led zeppelin, early santana, also love jimi hendrix, particularly this album:



Also been getting pretty heavily into jazz since last summer or so; Davis, Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Grant Green, Eric Dolphy...

Also I'm still enjoying plenty of electronic music, FSOL, eno and the likes.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J When I think of all the genres and artists I've still to explore, I don't see how anyone could have time to get bored of all of EDM.

It's hard to explain. Personally, I never could have seen myself getting tired of it until recently. But for a while I was listening to EDM pretty much exclusively for hours each day, and I think I've finally burned myself out, at least for now. It started all having a similar "feel" to me, and I started feeling an urge to hear something a lot different.

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Originally posted by Trance-MB I wish people would just quit using it..in English. Is the Dutch word for "electronics", though meanwhile the first "c" is changed to a "k". You may forget this, I was a bit bored.

So what your saying is... there should be no term that describes trance/house/trip hop/glitch/idm/jungle/chill etc etc? Thats just stupid.

What is wrong with the term?

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Originally posted by Project-K Been listening to some old bluesey rock, some led zeppelin, early santana, also love jimi hendrix, particularly this album: Also been getting pretty heavily into jazz since last summer or so; Davis, Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Grant Green, Eric Dolphy... Also I'm still enjoying plenty of electronic music, FSOL, eno and the likes.

What about post-rock stuff like Godspeed You Black Emperor!, A Silver Mount Zion, Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai etc.? Have you tried this stuff? These things "saved the day" when i was bored of EDM. Still love that stuff today and lots more post-rock bands.


Also what about 70s prog-rock? Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator, Genesis, Camel?

or 70s German Kraut-Rock (awesome experimental sub-field of 70s prog-rock that created modern music in a way) like: Can, Neu!, Faust, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Harmonia, Tangerine Dream, popol Vuh etc.


Just some suggestions that i like.

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Originally posted by PETRAN What about post-rock stuff like Godspeed You Black Emperor!, A Silver Mount Zion, Sigur Ros, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai etc.? Have you tried this stuff? These things "saved the day" when i was bored of EDM. Still love that stuff today and lots more post-rock bands.

I was very briefely interrested in this stuff, but it passed pretty quickly. I still enjoy hearing some post-rock once in a while, I'm just not really "into" it.

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Also what about 70s prog-rock? Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator, Genesis, Camel? or 70s German Kraut-Rock (awesome experimental sub-field of 70s prog-rock that created modern music in a way) like: Can, Neu!, Faust, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Harmonia, Tangerine Dream, popol Vuh etc. Just some suggestions that i like.

I was into this stuff before my big EDM burnout and I still am. I'm pretty close to owning every pink floyd album (I think I'm missing 2 right now). I also have a fair share of albums by ELP & King Crimson.

You'll get over whatever else you're listening to as well.

Don't be a glutton with any kind of genre. I listen to a variety of different kinds of music.

It could be that you just need to stop listening to music for a while. I've gone a couple months before doing just that.

Re: Re: Re: Getting bored of EDM

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Originally posted by RJT Agreed completely - though for me, however odd it may sound, the one group of music that I never really seem to tire of is electronic music, which I have to assume is just because of the broad number of flavors it comes in, but generally I can find some style of house almost any time that will suit my listening needs. With almost everything else I listen to regularly from folk to jambands to jazz to rock, I will usually get to the point where I need a break for a bit.

said it all.

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Originally posted by chadi It could be that you just need to stop listening to music for a while.

Now why would I ever want to do that?

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter So what your saying is... there should be no term that describes trance/house/trip hop/glitch/idm/jungle/chill etc etc? Thats just stupid. What is wrong with the term?

Shit, I didn't expect a reply...

electronica (officially "elektronica") = "electronics" in DUTCH.

So not using the word would become sort of a problem over here. Didn't mean anything else with it, you may forget this.

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