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Originally posted by noikeee "Broaden your mind." Fine, I'd love to do that. Like how?

Well the unhelpful answer is to listen to any genre of music on its own terms. Don't bring an electronic perspective to jazz or soul or whatever. I've found that a lot of people don't like other music because it doesn't fulfill their expectations. It's almost as though people have a mental checklist that music must tick off if it's to appeal to them.

Really, electronic music has touched so many other styles that someone who listens to a wide variety of it should already like a lot of principals of other genres. Given that the only parameter for electronic music is that it is primarily electronic in foundation, there's already been a huge amount of inter-genre pollination.

If you take away things you like about various genres that are electronic in source, there should still be things left. Appreciation of good rhythm, good melody. Energy, aggression, soul, evocation. You can find all of them in other music. If you like sweeping, epic electronic music you can find the same properties in film scores, which leads into classical. If you like the rhythm of good breaks, you can find it in funk, where it came from. If you appreciate good, memorable hooks, rock and pop are overflowing with them.

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Ok, fair enough. I guess my limited taste is somewhat related to not exploring music all that much in the last couple of years, unlike when I got into EDM and had to download everything audiogalaxy and my 33k modem would let me.

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Originally posted by Project-K I've been listening to this stuff daily for about 7 years now. For awhile I thought it was pretty varied (and in some ways it is), but when you get down to the basics it's really all just boom boom music, the rest is just sugar on top. That's what I've become bored of - because the sugar on top isn't enough anymore.

Have you considered checking out downtempo or experimental stuff?

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The reason for the lack of interest is pretty clear to me:

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Originally posted by Project-K I don't go to parties, I don't go to dance clubs either.

EDM stands for electronic DANCE music. From my point of view going to clubs and festivals is one of the best factors of EDM. Listing to tracks and sets at home is great. But actually going to a club and listening to a great dj brings it to a whole different level.

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Originally posted by basvh But actually going to a club and listening to a great dj brings it to a whole different level.

So people keep saying, but it doesn't really matter where you listen to the music if you just aren't into it.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Listen to whatever you want to listen to. If you're bored of something, don't listen to it. Listen to something you do like. If you can't find anything non-electronic you do like, broaden your mind. I've never got bored of electronic music, because I've never got bored of music. As long as I enjoy music, I'll enjoy electronic music, because there's so many great electronic records I can't listen to all of them frequently enough to get bored of them. Over-familiarity is the only way to get bored of something, and I've never listened to one genre exhaustively.

For the record I still like electronic music, it's specifically dance music I'm tired of. I'm not looking for suggestions of new music to listen to, I'm just saying it sucks that I spent so much time and money on this hobby while at the time I thought I'd be into this stuff forever, and here I am already tired of it. For the last few years my favorite hobby was discovering and collecting new house records. Now I've got this huge collection and I'm not really enjoying it anymore. :/

Also it makes me wonder if the same thing will happen to all the music I'm enjoying now, and if so, then is it really worth all the trouble to collect so much of it?

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Originally posted by Project-K Not that many are significantly different. You've got your techno that goes UNN TSS UNN TSS UNN TSS Then you've got your trance that goes MMM TSS MMM TSS MMM TSS Then you've got your house that goes BOOM-TSS-CLK-TSS-VWMM-BOOM-TSS-CLK-TSS Then your breaks that go like BOOM CHK UNN BOOM BOOM CHK ... and so on in that fashion

ahahaha...my new dj name is "Von Untss"

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Originally posted by Project-K For the record I still like electronic music, it's specifically dance music I'm tired of. I'm not looking for suggestions of new music to listen to, I'm just saying it sucks that I spent so much time and money on this hobby while at the time I thought I'd be into this stuff forever, and here I am already tired of it. For the last few years my favorite hobby was discovering and collecting new house records. Now I've got this huge collection and I'm not really enjoying it anymore. :/

I find it incredible that you can own so much music and manage to be bored of all of it. I wouldn't say I've got a "huge" music collection but there are records in there I haven't played for years, and there's no way I could get bored of all of it. And that's just music I already own. There's so much stuff out there that I can't comprehend you getting bored of all EDM, which comprises of thousands of records in hundreds of sub-genres over almost 30 years.

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never been bored with trance and i wont till im about 50 or so lol....but i do listen to other forms of music such as hard rock, but trance is #1 for me


i love my euro/freestyle but since its a dead genre pretty much, i dont listen to it as much as i use to.

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Originally posted by AustralianGQ never been bored with trance and i wont till im about 50

I could bet you a mil otherwise. Especially with all the garbage comming out now a days.

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Here's an idea...

Integrate non-dance orientated electronic music into your sets if you DJ, with some more dance orientated stuff. That's what I am hopefully going to do when I get around to mixing again. Basically work on mixing electronic music, it doesn't matter if it's dance...there's other use for electronic music other than dancing. There's a whole slew of stuff in the down tempo/ambient and experimental or "IDM" genres (ironic cause most IDM is actually not that dance able) as well as world or more new age music...that's quite brilliant IMO.

The three artists I'm currently into are Amethystium, Ulrich Schnauss and Schiller. They aren't really dance music per say, but their music does have a good beat, coupled with melody. Your probably familiar with Schnauss and Schiller already. Schiller used to do trance music but has since gone more pop, but still retains a trance-like, ethereal or otherworldly vibe.

i was in a similar situation. i was getting tired of a lot of dance music outside of the club...so i delved into ambient and experimental stuff...and dug back into the history of EDM for a good 6 months. to me it's important to be an all round listener of electronic genres. i want to know what inspired the people that inspire me and understand what the culture is about because i think that gets lost all too often.

of course the last couple of weeks i've been getting back into the dance clubby stuff hardcore...and you feel so behind.

i really think everyone cycles at some point or another.