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New to Techno/Trance - Need Suggestions!
I never listened to music much till 1.5 years ago, started out with (c)rap, but I'm sick of it now and it seems I'm leaning a lot more towards electronica. I need some advice & hopefully this isn't too logn of a read (skim if you have to).
Here are some of my favorite artists/songs far are . . .
- Benny Benassi: Satisfaction, Change Style, Get Loose, J'ai pas 20 ans remix (Alizee), Put your Hands up for Detroit
- Darude: Bad. Stars, Sandstorm, Burning, Feel the Beat, Let Music Take control, The Flow, Bitter Sweet
- Paul van Dyke (various mixes)
- Airhead: Vortex A1, Thrillseekers: Dreaming of You, Armin van Buuren: Janeiro (and a bunch of other ones from the TA New Tracks Section)
One of my friends gave me a link to an electronic music guide & I scrubbed through it finding stuff I like/hate/etc. He also said to take this list & the samples with a grain of salt. I put numbers on top of the list . . .
Click HERE for Non-Color Coded
Click HERE for Color Coded (a.k.a. "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music (GryphonAuto's acid remix)")
House:
- House Anthem: Nice energy, good flow, lots of variation in tone/sound.
- Techno Dance: Very Energetic, stuff you can dance to
- Hip House: Kind of cheezy in a good way, kind of cool, very energetic
- Funky House: Not sure I like most of the music itself, but love the funky sounds.
- Acid House: I love the crazy sounds!
Trance:
- Psychedelic Trance: Nice energetic trance-like flow with cool trippy sounds (Similarly GOA and Dark)
- Epic & Anthem Trance: Lots of variation in sound/tone, nice sounds, moderate energy, stuff I can listen to for a while without getting a headache, nice progression (Similarly Classic, Break, Deep, Tech, and Dutch Trance)
- German Trance: Fun music
- Acid Trance: Lost of energy and crazy/fun sounds!
Techno:
- Hard Acid Techno: Super-energetic (not in the pounding headache way), cool sound, good variation
- Detroit Classic/Techno/House Some interesting stuff
Breakbeat: (note: I'm sick of the lyrics in most of this genre)
- Electro: Who doesn't love robo and electro sounds put to a good beat?
- ElectroFunk: I'm a sucker for the funk undertones
- Turntablism/Scratching LOVE it when done right; HATE 95% of the stuff I hear on the radio or at clubs, sounds like the stereosystem is broken . . . and I'm in DETROIT for the love of god!
- Acid & Chemical Breaks Cool electric, slightly funky sounds . . . just love it! Music has nice audio variation.
- Miami Bass Total cheezy fun, and lot of it!
- Funky Breaks / Big Beat Cool sound, wouldn't mind it mixed into other genres
- Anthem Breaks Sounds more like trance to me, but it has some good stuff going on.
- Hip-Hop/Progressive Hop/Dirty South Rap/Crunk: Some of the musical stuff is REALLY cool, but then it gets ruined by the lyrics, seriously, SHUT UP ALREADY!
Jungle:
- NeuroFunk I'm a sucker for crazy/trippy sounds used well!
- Trancestep Fun stuff, a bit crazy for me to listen to all the time though
- Rave: I love the stadium-like full sound. It also has some nice audio variation & tons of energy! The rest of hardcore (on that site at least) has little-to-no variation at all, like a broken record, gives me a headache!
I guess I'm really picky when it comes to music I suppose, deleting about 90% of the music I ever listen to & I'm tired of listening to random tracks hoping I find good techno. So basically energetic, cool sounds, nice variation (no broken-record), some dance (techno) & some mellow (trance), minimal vocals. So anyone have some awesome music they think I'll love?
Last edited by gryphonauto on Dec-30-2007 at 05:50
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