This "EDM" thing

[sonicjunglist]

I don't know about you lot but it makes me cringe

 

[Shotty]

What about IDM?

 

[evermind]

bass music \

also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvmqC1igJvM must be the 4th time I post this link now. Love it

 

[Rusket]

this thread is fucking gay.

 

[Rich Pitchshift]

"Sounds like Optimus Prime & Bumble Bee got together and fucked and had a baby"

EDM / Bass Music... annoying term coined by the Americans to make it sound new.

 

[Rusket]

I was wondering, if someone is playing an electric guitar and people are dancing to it...is this EDM?

What a ridiculous term.

 

[rj_dnb]

I don't know about you lot but it makes me cringe

Busta move @ 1.36. Whataspeng.

 

[evermind]

I was wondering, if someone is playing an electric guitar and people are dancing to it...is this EDM?

What a ridiculous term.

by this logic drum & bass is a ridiculous term too

 

[Rusket]

by this logic drum & bass is a ridiculous term too

how so? I would argue that the main components of DnB are drums and some sort of bass?

 

[rj_dnb]

Same logic. It's dance music. Made electronically. In both genres the clue is in the name.

 

[evermind]

there are loads of genres with percussions and bass elements. You say electric guitar with dancing people to it is not EDM. I'm telling you, let's say Rock music - is not drum & bass, even though it contains these two elements Get where I'm going? Stupid arguing about this though

 

[Rusket]

there are loads of genres with percussions and bass elements. You say electric guitar with dancing people to it is not EDM. I'm telling you, let's say Rock music - is not drum & bass, even though it contains these two elements Get where I'm going? Stupid arguing about this though

Yeah I sort of see what you mean. But I was saying by definition, if someone is dancing to music that is coming from an electronic instrument, then surely that music is EDM? I was trying to show how stupid categorising music is. Music is just fucking music, if the sound hits my eardrums and I like what I hear then it's music to me and that's all that matters .

 

[Jwood27]

AIDS

 

[ThePapa]

 

[MARKLAR]

the term edm greatly pisses me off

 

[ThePapa]

 

[Rusket]

that thing is definitely fucked on something.

 

[Numbers]

EDM actually means Electronic Death Metal, that's why they mosh in raves.

 

[d-low]

could not give a shit.

 

[DeeGun]

So, solo gigs are more traditional DJ sets? No "pressing play"?

You're never just pressing play. If you're a guy in a cube with a mask on, you can press play. Deadmau5 also said himself he's not a DJ -- don't talk about stuff you don't know about. I don't know shit about LED walls and giant mouse heads; I can't judge it. But if you put four CD players in front of me or [Sebastian Ingrosso] or even Skrillex, we've been DJ'ing for so long, we can do a lot of things with those CD players.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/c...au5-dont-talk-about-stuff-you-dont-know-about

I wonder what happens if you put 1210s in front of him.