Im speechless….

Frankly, it might help kill the pop/mainstream appeal of DJing and EDM, thus we’re freed of the Guetta/Harris sound and the Pauly Ds of this world.

I’d tell you all either to enter or ignore it. If you hate it then build your own scene.

The downside is that even if mainstream dance loses it’s popularity, the next sound many of you will have to play won’t be that much more appealing. I’ll never forget the brief moment when I could play anything I wanted (within reason), then suddenly it was all about eurodance, and then popular rap/R&B music.

This is why I’ll keep saying “build a scene” to all those DJs who simply want to play their own music choices and not Billboard’s choices. That or find a happy balance, and a gig that allows you to be creative.

Episode 2, Scene 4:
DJ Snoozie is busy typing on the laptop while his buddy Shingle enters the room.
Shingle: “Yo buddy, whaz up?”
DJ Snoozie: “Man, I’m busy downloading cracked Vengeance samples for my next massive production…”
Shingle:”Uh oh. OK. Coming out and checking out chicks tonight?
DJ Snoozie: “No man, no time I need to assemble a couple of loops in Ableton and release it up on Beatport tonight…”

Hee Won Jung, post: 34541, member: 948 wrote: Disco was 60s and 70s This is what i would say is their version of EDM.

Disco didn’t really come on until the mid-70s, but otherwise I’d say you’re spot on here.

Hee Won Jung, post: 34541, member: 948 wrote: 80s was all about the metal and rock with a very small underground of electronic music was starting in North America albeit a very small following

80s also had new wave and dance pop which were VERY popular and drew heavily from Disco as well as introducing electronic elements.

Hee Won Jung, post: 34541, member: 948 wrote: 90s was alternative music and pop and Hip Hop started to become more of a dominate thing and the late 90s is when hip hop was flooding the industry. EDM underground scene erupted and was becoming more and more main stream.

In the early 90s, eurodance groups like 2Unlimited, Technotronic, Snap, C+C Music Factory were HUGE, but I agree after Nirvana hit the scene and hip hop exploded, things definitely changed.

Hee Won Jung, post: 34541, member: 948 wrote: 2k – Hip Hop still had a base but was starting to die out which paved the way for American POP music…which still has a very big hold on todays club scene…and EDM exploded.

Agreed, back in the early 2000s when I was listening to trance mixes by Tiesto and Paul Van Dyk (which my friends said was “gay” music), I never imagined EDM would merge with hip-hop and become suddenly mainstream.

I always figured popular music would begin borrowing from the EDM scene, but I never expected actual EDM DJs to become rock stars.

squarecell, post: 34550, member: 382 wrote:

In the early 90s, eurodance groups like 2Unlimited, Technotronic, Snap, C+C Music Factory were HUGE, but I agree after Nirvana hit the scene and hip hop exploded, things definitely changed.

Haha I still have all those Eurodance records :O I admit it. I even have the Turbo B limited edition album :p I was a nerd at the time…
I even have all the 80s New Wave records. That was fun, when synths apart from Moogs sounded like a flute with a jet engine.

You forget one thing in your history lessons however. It was prolly Gary Numan’s 1979 albums Replicas and The Pleasure Principle who redefined electronic music and influenced any electronic band after that, as he used the Moogs in a way that even the company itself never would have guessed.

Back on topic: I agree however, this will hopefully kill EDM boom in the long run.

Terry_42, post: 34562, member: 1843 wrote:
You forget one thing in your history lessons however. It was prolly Gary Numan’s 1979 albums Replicas and The Pleasure Principle who redefined electronic music and influenced any electronic band after that, as he used the Moogs in a way that even the company itself never would have guessed.

And if you go back a couple of years from 1979 and listen to New Musik, they pretty much invented electro pop.