Registered: May 2005
Location: Miami, United States
is EDM influencing the mainstream??
Over the past months Ive noticed that theres alot more EDM on the airwaves. With Britney, Justin Timberlake, and Timbaland all releasing tracks with a 4/4 beat and electronic elements. The explosion, at least here in miami, "of world hold on" after 3 years of being out. Kanye West ripping Daft Punks track. All 15 remixes of "Destination Calabria" being played the fuck out. And the addition of "club sessions" to the local open format station wed-sat nights dedicated to house music. Is it finally breaking through??
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Sep-05-2007 03:42
Domesticated
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2007
Location:
Yes.
Prior to year 2000, everyone in Melbourne called EDM "techno" like in the US.
Nowdays the situation is much better, everyone calls anything with a 4/4 beat "house"!
But seriously, yes, a lot of mainstream songs have started to take their cues from dance rather than rock music as has happened in the past.
Prior to year 2000, everyone in Melbourne called EDM "techno" like in the US.
Nowdays the situation is much better, everyone calls anything with a 4/4 beat "house"!
But seriously, yes, a lot of mainstream songs have started to take their cues from dance rather than rock music as has happened in the past.
thats my biggest pet peeve when people call EDM in general techno. It drives me bonkers. Or when they find some crappy took 10 minutes to make shitty ass song on limewire and thing that its amazing or something.
Sep-05-2007 03:53
CHRles
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Nashville
I agree - the mainstream is definitely warming up to Dance music in general. You've got mega-producers like Timbaland doing a great job of fusing EDM with other genres, translating it to something the masses won't reject.
Sep-05-2007 04:01
ClearWater
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2006
Location:
hmm, so is there actually any GOOD mainstream music that has this dance element to it? Should I turn on the radio?
omg this is the end folks... welcome Britney Van Timberlake
i'll stick to Chris De Burgh for now
Sep-05-2007 05:42
daphunky1
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Sask, Canada
Well I think perhaps a part of it is that sometimes people just wanna dance/get crazy... and they don't want slow hip hop beats to grind to. I know my friends are not into edm and they would never dance to any top 40 dj's. So the solution is 'dance parties' that are not quite full-on edm but good danceable music....like LCD soundsystem, Justice, chromeo, Hot chip.
I think a full on house set (especially deeper/proggier stuff) is just too much for some people to get into.... their minds just don't work that way.
Sep-05-2007 06:08
Darkarbiter
Psysnob
Registered: Mar 2007
Location: Melbourne
quote:
Originally posted by Beat Blog
Yes.
Prior to year 2000, everyone in Melbourne called EDM "techno" like in the US.
Nowdays the situation is much better, everyone calls anything with a 4/4 beat "house"!
But seriously, yes, a lot of mainstream songs have started to take their cues from dance rather than rock music as has happened in the past.
Everything on the radio is mainly dance or house. Mostly house though so it's understandable... what do they call anything with a 5/4 beat? Darkpsy?
