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this "electro-house" thing... TA thoughts!?!

I've noticed quite vividly how the electro-house style has engrained itself into the nightclub scene in the past few months. Aside from my own ideas about it all, what are you thoughts???

some things I wonder::
-where did it come from?
-why did it emerge?
-who do you think brought it on?
-why is it so big lately?
-what's next?
-whom whould have thunket????
-is this only a local thing?

I just find it incredible, that so many clubbers and DJs haven't seen this stuff as valuable house music in the first place. It did exist before, but in less quantity, and fewer have embraced it as much as now. Examples of such tracks that come to mind to reflect this genre could be....
DJ Jose - Steppin' to the Beat (Dave Mcdonald remix)
MV vs Hanna - Mr Roboto (Stef Vrolijk remix)
Sander K - The Fruit (Tom Novy remixes)
Acquaviva & Luetzenkirchen - Zombie (Aquachop remix)
Yoshimoto - Du What U Du (Trentemoller Mix)
John Dahlback - Nothing Is For Real (Mark Knight Remix)
Luke Walker - Alias

..and the list goes on..

Honestly, I love the stuff, simply cuz I find it more groovy and thus it gets me moving more so than typical dry house music does.
Don't get me wrong, I would much rather hear and DJ trance and progressive over anything else, but the electro-house is really kickin lately!!

I think the influences are a combination of 80s/early90s percussion and video-game sampled distortions and modern progressive house getting jolted by it all, and melding into a pot of dancefloor hammering tracks.

^aren

Your a step behind. Lol. Electro has been hot for about 4 months now. Its starting to die out thought.

Fad...fad....fad. Well see what's next

Before it was Remakes, Then Rock House, Then Progressive.


Ampz

dirty prog. vote NuEra for all your late night dark dirty prog needs.

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Originally posted by DJ_Ampz ^aren Your a step behind. Lol. Electro has been hot for about 4 months now. Its starting to die out though. Fad...fad....fad. Well see what's next Before it was Remakes, Then Rock House, Then Progressive. Ampz

I wasn't asking for your comment on whether or not I'm a step behind or not. I'm quite VERY aware of it's existence. I wouldn't say it's dying out though.
I was looking for a more elaborate reply, which in turn could go into a guess on the next best thing, etc, etc, etc.

Three Words.

SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA

you just opened up a big can of worms lol

I don't think it's as much of a trend as people say it is. I think it's DJs and producers wanting to cross the boundaries of genres - you see traditionally harder tech DJs playing Nathan Fake and trentemoller and Tiga and Dahlback remixes, and then house DJs are playing the exact same records!

There's a lot of really really shit electro house out there, but there's also a lot of quality. Obviously I enjoy more of the darker stuff, the darker tech house rather than fluffy electro house stuff, but overall it's pleasing to me to be able to go out and hear a house DJ drop some harder beats.

i <3 electro

Keith and I <3 electro.

Electro has been around for ages, and has been hot for a lot more than 4 months. In the GTA, its started to gain more playtime and popularity since the summer. However, this edgey hard sound has been exploding in Europe, and more specifically in Ibiza for the past 3-4 years. Take for example the club DC-10, with its circo loco parties. The parties, and the dj's that spin at them throw hard, dark, and dirty electro beats atcha all day. They're sound and many like them (Loco Dice, Tania Vulcano, DJ Hell, etc, etc.) is what a lot of dj's and partgoers are kind of moving a bit of their sound to. Take for example the new sound of misstress barbara. Anywho, all I think is that this isn't some new music trend, or fad. Its here to stay, and is appreciated by those with a mature electronic ear.

Ablefunk

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Originally posted by DJ_Ampz Your a step behind. Lol. Electro has been hot for about 4 months now.

I have friends who say it came and went two years ago. LMAO

Re: this "electro-house" thing... TA thoughts!?!

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Originally posted by SgtFoo dry house music

whats dry house?

is it like 99% of trance these days?

and electro has been huge a long time ago; with this "new" electro-influenced house coming into popularity about a year and a half ago. Hopefully it'll be dying off soon cause I'm really getting tired of every single dj playing those same raw, dirty, bleepy basslines.

i think it all comes in waves then it goes away then after sometime it comes again

as ablefunk said, its been around for ages...

however more electro styled house is being produced off late and well the trends are set based on availability (this goes for clothing, cars, gadgets etc)..

some of the tracks u mentioned, yes they DID come out over a year ago (the ones that i recognize) but that was when people DID notice the elecro trend...dunno how u havent noticed people mentioning electro house on here...oh wait now i know why...cos everyone sbeing saying DDTT instead

history repeats itself every other decade, in the 90s we saw a similarity in music(amongst other things) to music. Now if u notice, not only in electronica but even in rock, the 80s synthpop style has become quite prevelant (franz ferdinand, modest mouse, etc etc)

so just consider this as something that if not prevelant, will at least linger on fro a couple more years


*waits for the elitests to disagree*

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Originally posted by iLL SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA

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Originally posted by El Kay Dee history repeats itself every other decade

crazy talk

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Originally posted by jon jon crazy talk

think about it.

trendsetters are usually in their mid-late 20s.

say someone was born in 1979, during their childhood, they loved certain music, they are now 26/27...after having done all theri school or rather reach the mature age blah blah, they start pursuing music. the most vital part of them, their childhood memories, kicks in. they start making stuff based around that..

i guess cos i dont have a PHD in psychology and havent written articles, i have no theories...so lets leave it at then alright? alrright.

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Originally posted by jon jon I have friends who say it came and went two years ago. LMAO

woah woah woah, wait a second here.





































You have friends?!

i predict a circular arguement for the next 3 days.

3 or 4 months? try since before summer time.

and now it's over. maybe?

it's not over til john digweed decides it's over

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Originally posted by NuERA dirty prog. vote NuEra for all your late night dark dirty prog needs.

voted today

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Originally posted by milos it's not over til john digweed decides it's over

or until its all gone, pete tong

I think the Swedish House Mafia, coupled with Bedrock was one of the driving forces behind the recent popularization of subliminal/tech/electro house that is so prevalent in Toronto clubs these days. Somehow, around the time this sound came to Toronto it was changed.. for the worst.

Whereas the subliminal/tech/electro house sets spun by the swedish house mafia djs and digweed (and other pioneers of the sound) had great flow due to their effective balancing of their progressive sound with raw tech/electro beats. However most DJ's who try to spin this type of music in clubs sadly focus on the raw tech/electro beats at the expense of the progressive side. For me, this produces isjointed sets as raw beats are dropped one after the other with no forethought. I call it the "dance for 30 seconds, wait for 30 seconds, dance for 30 seconds, and repeat" effect.

lol I don't even know where to start with that...

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