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Originally posted by AnGeLicK So then why are producers & DJs white? Because most of the non-white population is concentrated in developing countries where the access to, the money and the time to make electronic music is not as easy as compared to more developed countries. I do not think that Pro Tools would really work well someplace that does not have basic electricity.

lol

I did my internship at an record label / record store. My primary work was for the record label but sometimes I helped out in the record store.
We sold EDM vinyl from trance to techno to club to hardstyl. With about 90% accuracy you could tell which style people wanted to buy. You could see if somebody wanted popular electro house or black hole/ armada trance. Ofcourse no black people for trance.

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Could it be because it is big in many Nordic / european countries????

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Originally posted by SteveMKIIDub Could it be because it is big in many Nordic / european countries????

hit the spot there

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Who the fuck cares.

EoT.

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Originally posted by Allied Nations Oh I mean Soul genre wise and black music in general. There is nothing black about trance - doesnt mean black people wont like it or make it (usually does though) but there is no black music in trance music really.

Good to know that Gangsta rap and Crunk n' B has Soul in it...

Dunno why people keep insisting on it, but in my opinion there is no "black" or "white" music. Music is music. One likes it or one doesn't and i hardly think that the pigmentation of your skin has any influence on it

A combination of conformity, exposure/availability and peer-presure on the other has probably has.

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Originally posted by r5a Who the fuck cares. EoT.

sme people do. I'm one of them. Very interesting topic imo

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Asians like-a-da trance

Aso Aso

Like I said previously in this thread, im 100% black and I basically only listen to EDM. It used to be just Trance (which I still listen to alot), but I discovered many other genres like breaks, dnb, ambient, etc. I do think it has alot to do with exposure through people and friends. If my friend hadn't of introduced me some 6 or so years ago, im not so sure I would be listening to it today. I don't solely listen to EDM though, as I do enjoy jazz as well as some classical pieces. When I was younger, 13 and earlier, all I used to listen to was rap or hip-hop because thats what I believed I was "supposed" to listen to. I saw this music as having been developed specifically for "my culture", and so did the rest of the world up until the late 90's.

Overall I think its just the relation people want to have with their music. I find that the majority of people I know who normally listen to rap or hip-hop do so beacuse the music makes them feel tougher, or like their some kind of invincible badass, and for some people thats what they might need to feel better about themselves. Or they might just adhere to the hip-hop/rap culture simply because it has become so embedded into youth society that they have no choice but to listen to it. Even as a nineteen year old, I find myself cringing at the sound of that music because of how dull and boring it sounds compared to EDM, jazz, or classical. Its basically just a looped beat(and when I say looped, I mean EXACT same sound throughout the entire track), bad vocalists, and even worse lyrics. I just can't understand whats going on in the minds of rap artists when they are making some of these songs.

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I dunno, there are rap acts like The Roots that have actual musicians and don't go on and on about "bitches and guns." Those kinds seem to be the exception, though, and not very popular...