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  • March 20, 2012 at 10:33 pm #17078
    shr3dder
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    Thats commercial-ish EDM for you.

    Always been like that, eventually it’ll die out and the next “big sound” will come through.

    March 20, 2012 at 11:51 pm #17081
    Sumir
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    Here ya go James, something a little deeper for ya bro, and by a little I mean a lot 😉
    [media=youtube]CK0zyDkave8[/media]

    March 21, 2012 at 12:00 am #17082
    Sumir
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    One more for ya…dig…these are the kind of deep house grooves I spin 90% of the time, with a bit of east coast (Dubtribe are from SF). Majority of my deep house records are from west coast artists. If ya dig these samples , let me know . Would love to turn ya on to more artists/labels/sites where ya can get some for your sets 🙂

    [media=youtube]PUss8KBKRc8[/media]

    March 21, 2012 at 5:17 am #17092
    DJ
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    I feel exactly the same. But Shr3dder’s got a good point as well: all commercial music sounds the same; that’s why it’s commercial (I wouldn’t call anything by Hardwell “commercial” necessarily, but the principle is spot on). Anything that gains popularity is going to bring forth imitators, which are also going to gain popularity, because they sound similar to the original.

    For instance (and I hate to mention the “S word,” but…) Skrillex hit it huge because, love him or hate him, he created a sound that was completely unique and transcended, if you will, most everything else that was out there. That’s the reason why you will constantly hear that (what used to be a) uniquely Skrillex-ish synth sound in a massive number of remixes as well as electro and dubstep tunes that are getting progressively more chopped up and with random sounds interspersed throughout simply because it worked for Skrillex.

    I do totally agree with you though, and I am getting really sick of every “remix” now that is just the first normal 55 seconds of the song followed by 32 bars of the Skrillex synths, then back into the original song for another 32.

    March 21, 2012 at 1:05 pm #17119
    D-Jam
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    Meh…this is life when you’re a DJ. I remember people getting tired of hardhouse in the 90s, then the cheesey sides of trance and UK hardhouse in the mid-00s. Now it’s Electro House and Dubstep.

    This is when you have to dig deeper, and perhaps turn down DJ gigs where you are forced to play the pop you don’t like. I know I found a new love for tech house when electro-house became too formulaic, but the tech sound also came out of the minimal/boring sound.

    Go out…discover new things…try new things. This isn’t a one-trick pony kind of thing. Worse comes to worse, start up a night or online show to build up a scene for the new sounds you like.

    I usually get into “phases”. Right now I’ve been on a phase to make some old school mixes. Maybe in a few months I’ll feel like something else. That’s the beauty of this DJ thing.

    March 21, 2012 at 9:27 pm #17131
    Hee Won Jung
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    Well first off that song in the OP isnt even Electro…its Progressive. MOST i say most because there are exceptions to the rule MOST progressive is pretty cheeseball sounding. Most progressive imo is very commercial…and has that “Anthem” sound that you speak of.

    I dont like 99.5% of commercial music out there…weather it be mainstream or just commercial EDM…and yes there is a difference.

    March 21, 2012 at 9:39 pm #17133
    James Downes
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    i stand corrected i dont know much about the differance =]

    March 22, 2012 at 3:15 pm #17163
    Hee Won Jung
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    hahha I think this song fits this thread quite nicely

    [media=youtube]dCujwifP8xU[/media]

    March 22, 2012 at 3:32 pm #17165
    Prototype1
    Member

    Progressive house should be called Regressive House these days.. there is is hardly any progression in the tracks.. unlike some of the Sasha, Digweed masterpieces of many years back.

    And electro house has no soul? not as in a soulful sound but it was not made with soul and passion. erm well… lets just leave it at that..

    March 22, 2012 at 7:06 pm #17179
    Hee Won Jung
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    There is good music in ALL genres…By saying this genre sucks or doesnt have soul and yadda yadda yadda imo shows ignorance. Yes its true that most of the EDM out there is garbage…and yes its really hard to find that one AMAZING song…but they do exist. Its just not as easy to find it these days because the industry has been completely flooded with Producers. Back in the day there were only a handful of producers making EDM music, as well the cost to make EDM was 10X more expensive than it is by todays standards. Thus only the high end producers were able to make chart toppers.

    There are just as many good producers today as there was 10 years ago…the only difference now is that theres a million crappy producers.

    March 23, 2012 at 12:21 am #1003337
    Prototype1
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    You are absolutely right. I have been out of the scene for too long and it seems that as I venture back there seems to be inundation of crappy tracks. But I should not have made that sweeping statement.

    Thanks for correcting me.

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