IdleRich
IdleRich
Cos EDM is too short to search for I can use Nelson's "I see no ships" tactic to claim there are no EDM threads already in existence... please don't spoil that for me Version.
Anyway there is quite a lot for me to learn about this subject and probably quite a lot to be said about this whole scene that fascinates and repulses me in equal measure.
First off, what is it? My impression - which could well be totally wrong, feel free to correct me if so - is that EDM isn't really a sound as such. It seems to just be the tunes from techno, dubstep and house - and I've not heard d&b but why shouldn't it be included too? - that are most suited to playing in the largest imaginable rooms. The common theme seems to be big brash drops... inevitably built up to by looooong tantalizing beatless teases that finally come crashing down in the most brutal thumping crushing beat pile-ups which have the crowd moshing - not really dancing - wildly.
And to me that seems quite a bit part of it. It's called electronic DANCE music but do people really dance to it, in the pics the crowds look too tightly packed for any dancing. The other day some friends and I were talking about how the Prodigy changed from a rave act to a stadium rock band - EDM seems to be that trajectory writ large.
I got loads more to ask but gonna throw it open now after a few quickies. What's the history, how did it develop? Did it grow as a roots movement of sorts or did it sort of come out of the side of dance music fully formed?
Also, how much cross-pollination is there? Do EDM superstars get booked to play at, say, techno nights with proper techno DJs or vice versa? And same for tunes, are there any EDM tunes got picked up by, I dunno, Nina Kraviz say? Or vice versa. How has it developed, do the tunes change?
Also how is it so massive? How did it happen and how does it work? Does it exist in any form except megafestivals? Can you go and catch Laid-back Luke in an intimate cellar somewhere? Is a purely US thing or does it happen in Europe too? Where? Where do the DJs come from, what scenes? They seem to suddenly appear as fully formed stars, how?
Do they really DJ or just put on mixes?
Also what the fuck is Melbourne?
Ok, teach me, please! Thanks
Anyway there is quite a lot for me to learn about this subject and probably quite a lot to be said about this whole scene that fascinates and repulses me in equal measure.
First off, what is it? My impression - which could well be totally wrong, feel free to correct me if so - is that EDM isn't really a sound as such. It seems to just be the tunes from techno, dubstep and house - and I've not heard d&b but why shouldn't it be included too? - that are most suited to playing in the largest imaginable rooms. The common theme seems to be big brash drops... inevitably built up to by looooong tantalizing beatless teases that finally come crashing down in the most brutal thumping crushing beat pile-ups which have the crowd moshing - not really dancing - wildly.
And to me that seems quite a bit part of it. It's called electronic DANCE music but do people really dance to it, in the pics the crowds look too tightly packed for any dancing. The other day some friends and I were talking about how the Prodigy changed from a rave act to a stadium rock band - EDM seems to be that trajectory writ large.
I got loads more to ask but gonna throw it open now after a few quickies. What's the history, how did it develop? Did it grow as a roots movement of sorts or did it sort of come out of the side of dance music fully formed?
Also, how much cross-pollination is there? Do EDM superstars get booked to play at, say, techno nights with proper techno DJs or vice versa? And same for tunes, are there any EDM tunes got picked up by, I dunno, Nina Kraviz say? Or vice versa. How has it developed, do the tunes change?
Also how is it so massive? How did it happen and how does it work? Does it exist in any form except megafestivals? Can you go and catch Laid-back Luke in an intimate cellar somewhere? Is a purely US thing or does it happen in Europe too? Where? Where do the DJs come from, what scenes? They seem to suddenly appear as fully formed stars, how?
Do they really DJ or just put on mixes?
Also what the fuck is Melbourne?
Ok, teach me, please! Thanks