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What current genre is kicking it off PRESENTLY?
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| digitalEyes |
So, we have the peak of trance around 1999 (or earlier--whoever's opinion is most correct :D), electrohouse + minimal in 2003-2004, (according to a current thread) and progressive in the earlier 2000's. What I am wondering is what genre will have stood out 5 years from now and say "This genre really emerged (or perhaps, re-emerged) as the class of the EDM scene in 2007-2008 with innovating, interesting, and intelligent sounds."
And if there isn't any obvious answer right now, is there any genre that appears to be heading in a positive direction right now? |
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| paulandrews |
The only thing I can think of right now is dubstep.
Also, disco is going to be huge this/next year. |
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| IpLaYWiTLiGhTs |
ehhh...I wouldn't say just because a genre is in the spotlight means it's at its peak. In fact I think many would say it's the exact opposite, at it's demise. While in the spotlight, the bandwagoning begins and that brings produces who want to capitaloize on the "in" sound or listeners who will take anything that's fed to them.
Anyways...Deep house has been getting lots of attention for awhile now, but I think in the coming years it's going to really blow up and take the forefront. |
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| Project-K |
| Jackin' hard melodic electro-core |
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| PETRAN |
| quote: | Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs
ehhh...I wouldn't say just because a genre is in the spotlight means it's at its peak. In fact I think many would say it's the exact opposite, at it's demise. While in the spotlight, the bandwagoning begins and that brings produces who want to capitaloize on the "in" sound or listeners who will take anything that's fed to them.
Anyways...Deep house has been getting lots of attention for awhile now, but I think in the coming years it's going to really blow up and take the forefront. |
Nah, deep house has been here like forever (the timewriter and stuff) and it never went big because the very nature of it doesn't allow it to get big. Deep house is not something which is suited for
"big rooms", it is rather the cool chill house which is destined for cool lounge bars or smaller more chill-out clubs. Even tech-house which is a stripped-down, dirtier version of the sound is more suited for smaller darker clubs. As you understand, genres which are not played in massive clubs and events do not get big. This is the case here. As for dub-step, there is a "hype" surrounding it, but its more of an "indie" hype rather then the next big EDM thing. Plus, i thing that there is no Dubstep outside the UK and personally, except for Burial and two other producers, i don't know of a single dubstep dj or anything like that.
In all seriousness, EDM is like....dead right now. There is nothing new creative or innovative going on, its like it came to a dead-end. You've got the samey-same house, techno, trance stuff and some weird bleepy minimal and farty electroy stuff as the "new thing". This period is a far cry from the 90s indeed and i don't thing that anyone will remember anything at all from this period, except for the odd cool Joris Voorn or The Field albums which will be "out of print" in like 5 years from now. Nothing like Orbital, Underworld or anything like that... |
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| Clovis |
The in sound right now is an amalgam of almost every thing, and music that sounds less robotic, imo. Theres a shift away from generic minimalish stuff and a resurgence of tunes that imo have a much more organic and old school feel.
See stuff by Guillaume Coutu Dumont, Seth Troxler etc. Lots of other artists have had a few tunes in this vein as well, but I won't list them and risk being flammed because they're too (insert whatever people don't like about them).
And lol @ Underworld and Orbital being the be-all end-all of creativity in dance music. |
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| TranceArmstrong |
i don't know if there's any one genre that's king right now. I just try and look for music within genres that have already been established (house, techno, deep house, tech house, 'electro', that mixture of every genre that clovis mentioned, whatever) and just try and find good tunes within them.
I agree with Petran a little bit about it being dead / no creativity but that doesn't mean there aren't a ton of talented producers out there still who can still make plenty good stuff, even if it isn't exactly groundbreaking or whatever. |
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| paulandrews |
| quote: | Originally posted by PETRAN
As for dub-step, there is a "hype" surrounding it, but its more of an "indie" hype rather then the next big EDM thing. |
There is some great techno-influenced dubstep as well, like the new Peverelist EP - Infinity Is Now/Junktion, tracks from 2562 and so on... Similarly, one of the new Mathew Jonson tunes called Twin Cobras incorporates dubstep elements into techno. There's big potential in this imo. This stuff is way ahead of its time.
| quote: | | Plus, i thing that there is no Dubstep outside the UK and personally, except for Burial and two other producers, i don't know of a single dubstep dj or anything like that. |
There is dubstep outside of UK. Apart from various producers from all over the world, there are regular dubstep parties all over the Europe, they just aren't that easy to find. Hell, even here in Prague, where trends from Western Europe come with a two-year delay, we have a dubstep night with guests like Mala from Digital Mystikz, Si-Begg, Moving Ninja and so on. |
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| racing4hoes |
| Its all about the HappyHardDubcoreAcidJazzTech , thats where its at |
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| PETRAN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis
And lol @ Underworld and Orbital being the be-all end-all of creativity in dance music. |
I didn't mean that these two specific artists are the be-all end-all of creative EDM, but that an absence of such artists in general MEANS something (something bad!). If you get relatively mainstream EDM albums like "Secondtoughestintheinfants" and "In Sides" you can get a picture of whats going-on in general (a lot of things!). Such releases tend to reflect the state of the genre and such releases are surely absent now.
And leave the classic argument that goes "oh but there is stuff you have to search a little deeper..." my arse, you have to search a little deeper only to find the obscure bleepy tune with the obscure sounds and the extra-noisy low-end which every pseudo-underground scenekid things that is so dark and coool so,you gonna buy it as a digital download, only to end with a million digital downloads of useless and musicless 4/4 obscure tunes with obscure sounds and extra-noisy low-ends, realizing after a few years that you were such an idiot to spend so much money on countless, musicless tunes whereas you could spend and buy something of substance which someone in the future will take a listen and say "hell, what great retro-music is THIS that my uncle/father has!" Thanks but i already have the original "Secondtoughestintheinfants", "In Sides" and "Hypermetrical" by ing Cygnus-X for that! What (new stuff) do you have? |
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