Yay for blanket terms that are essentially meaningless in almost all contexts to which they would be used to describe something.

"Hey, so, what sort of music do you like?"

"Well, I listen to, ya know, music."

[awkward silence]

"Alrighty then."

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Requirement to be "Electronic" music: Must be made with electrons.

Requirement to be "Electronic Dance Music": Must be made with dancing electrons.

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Someone I feel the same way, but I dont like any other genre of music nearly as much as EDM, and EMD is like a drug to me, I am always searching for that catchy song to keep me going..
Last 3 catchy Artists for me were 16 bit lolitas, Deadmau and Prydz, they like opened new doors for me this year.. Oakey/Tiesto/digweed/Sasha/Corsten did it in 90s for me..
Take a break, find some highly rated new albums, pop them in, relax and enjoy..

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Originally posted by Project-K I'm not sure if I'm just going through a phase or if I'm done for good here. I don't go to parties, I don't go to dance clubs either. Haven't touched my CDJs in months. The main reason I got into EDM in the first place was because I was tired of all the samey sounding pop-rock that plagued the airwaves, and this music provided me with fresh sounds I'd never heard before. But I've listened to so much of it in the past few years that no ammount of ingenuity or originality ever surprises me anymore - I feel like I've heard it all. Overall it's been a great learning experience. I discovered so many new sounds and musical concepts that thought me to listen to music with a fresh set of ears, but there's just nothing left for me to discover anymore. Been through pretty much every sub-genre of it. Collected all sorts of it - out of my latest batch from beatport, only about 10% I ended up really liking, the rest was below my expectations and I got bored of in a matter of days (even though I chose them carefully). There's barely any EDM left on my mp3 player save for some old mid-90s prog house tracks, an old Funk D'Void set and some LSG tracks. Lately I've been getting back into accoustic music (something I hadn't touched in ages), digging up stuff from the 70s mostly. Has anyone else gone through this? Or just long periods of being bored of EDM?

for me Trance from 2000-2004. Then I realized there were other genre's of electronica(breakbeat, happy hardcore, house) and after some major listening I started to find some great tracks that def changed my mind set. If I ever get bored or sick of a certain style of music I will just switch up the genre and if I hear a great EDM song I will blast that still.

IMO: In an style of music(rock, hip-hop, country, even polka) if you heard a particular song you actually might enjoy it. I love EDM but then I could listen to wall flowers - like One head light or even

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Originally posted by RJT Requirement to be "Electronic" music: Must be made with electrons. Requirement to be "Electronic Dance Music": Must be made with dancing electrons.

That makes me want to change my sig!

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Originally posted by zen_zo OMG since when did countless decades of tradition started influencing music?

Most people on here seem to agree that you CAN have "too much of a good thing" (that is if you consider EDM a 'good thing'). I guess that's generally true with all things in life. People will always have phases. Why do you think there is used DJ equipment for sale or music collections on Ebay etc. True, some people need to sell that stuff to make some money, but I'm sure there are an equal number of people who simply don't care about it anymore.

As for musical taste, I would argue that people who have a very narrow preference in music are SEVERELY limiting themselves. Just like people who ONLY like country or metal are closing themselves off, so too are people who ONLY listen to EDM or worse ONLY trance. Music cannot be experienced in a vacuum. Music from one genre influences others. If you take the latest 'sound' from a pop song, you can probably trace it back to it's origin in underground or indie or non-mainstream music.

I agree with the people on here who have said that one should listen to the music that they like. Listening to music should give you pleasure and if you don't feel like listening to EDM and instead rocking out to some Nirvana or hip-hop or classical or whatever, then all the power to you. I also think everyone should have some 'guilty pleasures', i.e. the music you don't really admit you like or know the words to. I sometimes indulge in pop-punk when no one is listening... oops. I've said too much.

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I like how most people is like 3 people in this thread.

Although admitably the less you like trance the more you post here...

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I dance to ambient after I've taken enough diphenhydramine.

What, like Brian Eno?

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Originally posted by Darkarbiter Well I said electronica... not "electronic music"

"Electronica" is a term useless because of its extreme ambiguity. It's a media buzzword, and the Wikipedia article on it even admits that it was made up by MTV and its ilk. I wish people would just quit using it.