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  • August 16, 2015 at 4:36 pm #2240221
    Ronnie EmJay
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    EDM is a label given by americans to identify the commercial big room sound eg. Hardwell, David Guetta, Steve Aoki etc.

    Technically it stands for Electronic Dance Music but tell any tech house dj or deep house dj that they are playing EDM and many will take offence.

    I don’t have much time now but this big room electro/commercial/EDM is usually 128bpm and contaims a few drops abd many have Pryda snares.. deep house can be anywhere from 110-128bpm but you can tell by the sounds use. Tech house has a more distinct drum pattern style and faster than deep house. Techno is much more repetitive but can sound harder and be faster than these 2.

    Here in Spain Techno seems popular with those taking MDMA… commercial places (Edm, top 40 etc) you see people taking cocaine. No, I don’t take drugs, these are just my own observations.

    August 16, 2015 at 4:38 pm #2240231
    Ronnie EmJay
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    As examples listen to songs by Dusky and Hot Since 82 this is the typical UK deep house sound. The more commercially accessible sound is by MK, Robin Schulz, Second City, Gorgon City etc.

    Tech house, look at songs by Nic Fanciulli, Jay Lumen for example.

    Techno look for Nicole Moudaber, Adam Beyer.

    August 16, 2015 at 4:38 pm #2240241
    Ronnie EmJay
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    And FYI beat port labels genres wrong quite a lot.

    August 16, 2015 at 4:45 pm #2240261
    Erick Laparra
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    Thanks Ronnie. Will look into the artist u recommend. I specially have problems differentiating tech from techno.

    Yeah, I’ve noticed beatbort isn’t too reliable. Someone said Juno is a bit better.

    August 16, 2015 at 5:34 pm #2240291
    Ronnie EmJay
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    If you like you can also listen to mixes I post up and try to tag accurately.
    http://www.mixcloud.com/mjolnersson

    Although my mixes may throw up more questions ?

    August 16, 2015 at 8:13 pm #2240311
    Erick Laparra
    Participant

    Damn Ronnie! Awesome work!
    I have such a long way to go 🙁 lol

    August 17, 2015 at 9:00 am #2240381
    Terry_42
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    After 20+ years of DJing I have decided there only is two music genres for me: sounds good and does not sound good.

    August 20, 2015 at 7:07 am #2242181
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    I have a third: sounds good under certain conditions LOL

    August 20, 2015 at 9:59 pm #2243091
    Ronnie EmJay
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    damn you auto correct and phone touch screens!
    correction.. deep house is usually 110-124bpm.
    tech house is usually 124-128bpm.
    edm 128-130bpm. may people mean edm when they say electro… I’ve found this out when supposed to be playing electro and the club manager says, “No, no, no, electro, you know Steve Aoki, Afrojack …”

    Not sure how to define progressive. I guess listen to Eric Prydz current stuff… what I like about him is he does what he wants and not be commercial to make money…. though in my opinion, more to listen to than to dance to, but great stuff.

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