Dance music in Europe

mms

sometimes
Thanks. A few e-props to round off a mediocre Wednesday...;)

I got the impression Skwee was a bit more 'look at this great combination of incongruous musical elements I put together' rather than 'check this rinsin bassline I made on fruity loops blud'...dunno really.

skwees made by scandinavian ex electro people, from small scenes and a small number of people who make that music.
its sort of lo-fi electro-funk, much more ground up and open than electro .
 

tyranny

Well-known member
The Poles as a whole prefer "Disko Polo" - sort of a crossover between Polish folk dances and commercial trance...

An old housemate tells me of some of his friends in Warsow who run a minimal / electronica / noise label but who have a very secret love of knocking up disco polo on the sly when they have a few drinks in them...

the real trouble started when they sent a cd off to a label for a laugh and had all the tracks on it signed...

now they're causing a (pseudonymous) storm in the disko polo scene and have to keep it an utter (on a par with burial's face style!) secret from their apparently rather purist core audience..
 

zhao

there are no accidents
who is into the dutch afro house sound? it's a bit like dutch funky.

there are some tunes by Syndney Samson and Alvaro i like... but there is a lot of electro BS in that scene... too bad most Afrojack tracks just sound like tech house. who else is good?
 

Transpontine

history is made at night
there's another thread to be made again about the popularity of the offbeat bassline in Trance and Hard House in areas where there is a strong ancestral culture of local Brass Bands with Tubas.

Also, what about the popularity of bangin' kick drums in areas where is a strong culture of marching bands. I am thinking particularly of Northern Ireland and Scotland, where both Republican Flute bands and their loyalist equivalents are centred around somebody walking along banging an enormous bass drum.
 
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