Originally posted by Sykonee
In my neck of the woods, there was an incredibly thriving electronic music scene 15 years ago, almost all underground but more than enough outlets for one to get their fix. If anything, it's scaled back compared to those years, though one can still find good nights out with a little effort.
I'll grant different regions and cities have unique perspectives on this thing, but just because some places have suddenly 'got it' doesn't mean others never had it.
Yup, this is the way I see it too. I'm lucky enough to have grown up near one of the birthplaces of dance music.. but when I started getting into dance music 15 years ago, most people I knew still had no clue what house music was. Outside of "Do It Again" by Razor N Guido, Long Island's main contribution to the dance music world for years until the LIES record label. Still, I was able to find more than enough dance music CDs and mixcomps in stores (especially at the Virgin Megastores around the area), music magazines like Mixmag and DJ Mag that clued me on to what was going on in the UK, clubs and events that catered to the kind of music I listened to (a little place called "Twilo"... Too bad I was one or two years too young to get in). At night all the NYC radio stations would broadcast from clubs, of course considering the era and the local, it was all gay circuit party hard house.
But then I went to Buffalo for college, a small industrial town that always seemed 5 years culturally stuck in the past compared to NYC... and was surprised how little activity there was EDM-wise, and how nobody even knew what it was. Apart from a rave at the Niagara Falls Convention Center in '99 (where I first saw TA's infamous Jon the Dentist, DJ Icey, Bad Boy Bill and Sandra Collins), I had to go to Toronto if I wanted anything EDM related.
This isn't about me being a dj.. I get my "occasional" gigs.. That's besides the point.. The point is that we've come along way from where we were and I just want to make sure that where we're going is going to be just as good..
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.
Originally posted by enydo
I'll keep looking at your events list while laughing.
I was thinking the same thing.
G&B - Boring Mash-Ups everytime.
W&W - LOL
Excision - ???
Knife Party - Yup
Tritonal - Lol again
These guys are playing the flavor of the month music. They are apart of the problem not the solution to your article there.
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Feb-13-2013 22:18
Sykonee
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Originally posted by DJRYAN™
This isn't about me being a dj.. I get my "occasional" gigs.. That's besides the point.. The point is that we've come along way from where we were and I just want to make sure that where we're going is going to be just as good..
If you figure a 'healthy scene' is a bunch of transients fist-pumping at club concerts, then no. Seeing as how no EDM acts performed at the Grammys this year, I'd say we're starting the decline from last year's peak of popularity.
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Feb-13-2013 22:24
DJRYAN™
www.djryan.com
Registered: Aug 2009
Location: Atlanta, USA
what I've noticed a lot lately is that if your scrolling through a given list of dj's sets to listen to.. Most people click on who they're familiar with.. And that particular set could be absolute garbage, while the other ones could be bonkers.. The fact of the matter is, unless someone says, omg, check this out, the likelihood of them grabbing hold of a new artist is slim to nil.
What does that say?
The list that you put out is a typical season at that particular venue and personally, I like it. Sure, there are probably other dj's out there that are just as talented but do they get the attention- no. Not unless they have the name to go along with their talent.
Regardless, if your in the Atlanta area this weekend and want to come out and check out Tritonal.. Here's my link to get discounted tix..
Let's have some fun and keep enjoying the music =)
Feb-13-2013 22:31
Light The Fuse
Training Tranceaddicts
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Fist Pumping, Au
the moment will.i.am said "electro house is going to be huge" about 2-3 years ago and the magnificent american term EDM was coined - the universe shifted in a magical way.
the effortless ease with which america (with great help and brotherly love from the dutch) deconstructed dance music and rebuilt it in a unique way - totally devoid of any groove or soul and so beautifully accessable and marketable to todays iGen. trully special moments where the youth of today can experience wet t-shirt competitions and all the lustre of girls gone wild spring break edition - with an entirely new and totally forgetable sound track. (mobile ringtone now only 99cents).
oh dj ryan you are indeed blessed to be at the forefront of such an artistic, dare i even say bohemian movement.
Last edited by Light The Fuse on Feb-15-2013 at 05:07
Feb-15-2013 05:01
Looney4Clooney
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2010
Location:
people were using the term EDM in 2000. IT was ubiquitous then among those that were tired of people calling it techno which was pretty much everyone that was in some way part of the scene. I would say americans have only ever liked house and dubstep and there was no reason for a term like EDM.
Originally posted by Light The Fuse
the moment will.i.am said "electro house is going to be huge" about 2-3 years ago and the magnificent american term EDM was coined - the universe shifted in a magical way.
the effortless ease with which america (with great help and brotherly love from the dutch) deconstructed dance music and rebuilt it in a unique way - totally devoid of any groove or soul and so beautifully accessable and marketable to todays iGen. trully special moments where the youth of today can experience wet t-shirt competitions and all the lustre of girls gone wild spring break edition - with an entirely new and totally forgetable sound track. (mobile ringtone now only 99cents).
oh dj ryan you are indeed blessed to be at the forefront of such an artistic, dare i even say bohemian movement.
This.
Feb-15-2013 05:46
Looney4Clooney
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2010
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by Light The Fuse
meh i think my point is made
your point seems to forget the fact that the so called groove USA is destroying was an american invention. EDM owes more to american culture than people ever seem to want to give. America has always understood dance music. It just has never been a mass movement. Even popular disco was good disco white washed just like rock music before. Without America, you get electronic music ala stockhausen. It is only because of america your dance music is danceable.
I guess I think you should be somewhat sensitive to the history and as much as current douche bags ie OP representing 1 generation of americans, it has contributed more to every genre post romanticism than pretty much every country.
and that goes from the very technology to the core aesthetic of the music. With USA, you would be raging to music concrete based waltzes.
