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| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
People new to electronic music don't like techno or ambient, and certainly not psy-trance without vocals or cheesy guitars. They like relatively un-repetitious tracks with structures that are nevertheless simplistic (i.e intro, chorus, break, chorus, refrain, chorus, outro) and usually vocals.
People who've spent their whole life listening to rock, hip-hop or pop are used to plenty of vocals, little repetition and obvious, in-your-face melodies that are catchy and extremely recognisable, which is why songs like Children and Sandstorm became so popular despite a lack of lyrics.
If your friend is a rock fan, I'd start him off on Hot Chip, Boyz Noise or Justice as you already suggested. If he's into other stuff at the moment or is more willing to dive headlong into electronic music, commercial house music is very approachable. Axwell, Daft Punk, Mylo, Linus Loves, Calvin Harris and Ian Carey would all work well in this respect. From here he'll be able to discover other things and gain a slow appreciation of more repetitive and subtle music.
edit: as the guy above said, big beat and stuff of that ilk is also good. Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, The Prodigy, Underworld etc. |
It, really really depends on what they are into. I've gotten one metalcore kid into psy by playing bamboo forest-cliche'h fairly catchey, but not in a house way. As well as another metalcore kid with mfg-magnetic activity which he then proceeded to download all my mixes and quite liked them. Really I think its a lot about what they think is cool, if they're into metal/trippey stuff they will probably think trippey/dark feeling stuff is cool.
Another guy who likes tool really liked celtic cross (psy ambient) and psy generally after I played some stuff. When they're drunk/stoned is the perfect time.
A chick I know who's into trippey movies and black metal/metalcore also got straight into a dark ambient set and darkpsy although not really fully. I sent her that "hypnotic techno" set before as well as she found that pretty badass.
A lot of people into punk/hxc are also into reggae, so you can allways try a downbeat/dub crossover like some of vibraspheres stuff.
But yeh, just because they don't listen to electronic music doesn't mean they don't have an aversion to cheesy/aren't able to hear quality. There's fairly acessable yet deep stuff in a lot of genres. Especially metal from what I've seen anyway.
Then again with some people there's really no hope.
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