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What the **** is going on with these daft microgenres/names?
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| DJ RANN |
I just logged in to Beatport for the time in about 6 months and I you not, one of the links called "future house" actually had this written on it:
| quote: | | Future House Featuring influential new forms like hard-hitting G-House, lush Tropical House and leading-edge Electro Funk, Future House is filling peak-time performance slots faster than any other emerging dance genre. |
What the has this industry come to?
"Lush Tropical house?"
"Leading Edge Electro Funk?"
Can some peeps out there tell me if people actually take this bollocks seriously, or is this just more of the same nonsense whereby commercial outlets (and those who serve them) try desperately to coin phrases to tap in to gullible numpties who will part with cash? |
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| enydo |
| It's called literally everyone and their brother is a "producer" now and they need someway to get a leg up on the neverending deluge that is very generic electronic music. |
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| Onoma32 |
Today I heard some of that so-called "Tropical House" and while I did like it, I don't see what makes it some new genre. That's just commercial deep house with some vague summer feeling.
This quoted description is unreadable to me. What's the point? |
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| Vector A |
| I noticed this, too. I don't even know if this is something Beatport initated on its own, or if it's a result of a genuine grassroots body of artists out there lobbying for recognition of a bunch of subgenres they claim to have invented. Neither would surprise me, really. |
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| LoveHate |
| i thought it was a legit joke. :haha: |
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| Sykonee |
| Straight up marketing. Producers and labels want to make house from the past, but don't want to get caught recycling, so they label it something different to fool the kids. Future House is repackaged '90s euro house that uses those distinct squarewave basslines. Next thing you know they'll be making vintage acid house and calling it psychedelic tweak deep house. |
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| Icesotope |
| and here i thought 'Bubblegum' Dance and 'Amazon' Jungle is for the weird kids back in those days |
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| Redd |
| heard Tropical House for the first time by a mainstream radio host here in Norway as a name for the that Kygo makes. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Redd
heard Tropical House for the first time by a mainstream radio host here in Norway as a name for the that Kygo makes. |
Haha. While I was in Krakow last month I was sat outside in a courtyard of some bar and there was a truly terrible mix of the most cookie-cutter commercial dance music playing. I actually thought the bar was just playing one track on a loop for a while because the songs were so indistinguishable. I've just realised it must have been this Kygo guy after having a quick Spotify recon.
Beatport sends out its "genres on the rise" emails every so often and they often seem to be willful self-parody: "Yacht House", "Post Disco", "Neo New Wave" spring to mind (and I'm not making any of these up). I can't decide if these terms genuinely have currency somewhere on the Internet or if Beatport is having a tongue-in-cheek crack at selling these tags to 18 year old converts.
To be perfectly honest I'd rather it gets labelled "Tropical House" or some other silly than torturing poor old "Deep House" yet further. |
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| Guest |
| quote: | Originally posted by Redd
heard Tropical House for the first time by a mainstream radio host here in Norway as a name for the that Kygo makes. |
Was at the beach a few weeks ago with a group of late 20-somethings and somehow dance music came up. I didnt contribute much to the conversation until one of the girls said she was really into tribal house music. She was controlling the blue tooth speaker at the time so I asked her to play some tribal house for me. Given my early exposure to the North Jersey/NYC early 2000's scene I had a general idea of what to expect.
She started playing Kygo tracks.
Now I'll admit that Kygo's music is fun and catchy in a Candy Land/Chutes & Ladders kind of way, but there's nothing really percussive or housy about it, at all.
It was at this point that I realized that I'm old. |
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| Redd |
| I would have had a seizure if someone told me they were huge fans of tribal house and then proceeded to play Kygo as an example. |
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| Redd |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
To be perfectly honest I'd rather it gets labelled "Tropical House" or some other silly than torturing poor old "Deep House" yet further. |
I agree, let them label all the new stuff something else. I'd rather be the guy that listen to "that old music" than Kygo and equivalents. |
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