We are all here because we like eDm in one form or another. But regardless of the specific genre you like pretty much any track has an element of D in it. Which is to say that it has some sort of a beat to facilitate dancing.

On the flip side, if you wanted to listen to electronic music without a danceable beat shackled to it, your only real portal was Ambient.

What happens when EDM gets the guts to shed the D from its name? When it decides to unburden itself of the danceable beat? That's where the next revolution in music will be. ( I will give the earliest nod to Isao Tomita's classic album from 74 called Snowflake but that's another story)

I would argue that Trance (as per my sig) has been experimenting with this freedom for sometime now. And that all forms of EDM have been since they all know this is where things are going.

Specifically to please Radagast I offer up Rhythim is Rythim - ICON from 96 as an early form (the first minute is a giveaway) but since none of you will know it I will move onto a more developed example.

Kallocain (Robert Nickson mix). From 2:37-3:50 in the song is free of the drumline and its amazing.

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All i'm really saying is that the D in EDM is a shackle that limits the evolution of music. That there is a very rich untapped region of music that lies between Ambient and all forms of EDM.

Of all the forms of EDM out there, i'm most excited about what happens when Trance leaves the dance floor.

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Electronic music the way we know it will be gone before you know it.

Sure technology will still be used to make music, but it wont sound like electronic music. It will just sound like music.

I really think electronic music is on its last legs, as a whole.

Electronic music minus the "dance" was around before the "dance", and will be around after the "dance".

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What good is the music if you can't dance to it?

what about Tomita, then? his "Planets" album was great...as far as i can recall it's ambient by and large. I think it was Jupiter that i really relished...i have the cd lying about somewhere...

The D was never a requirement. Some ambient sounds better than any D music that exists.

But the D will never die either, like it or hate it. Hell, rock never died.

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