Is EDM truly dead?
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- Akagiyama0
This is the one that hit me in the gut the first time I heard it. Never looked back after that...
- lvl_130
i've been listening to EDM(20+ years), and consider myself pretty versed as to the who's who in the scene and i had to google who this guy was. so there is that...
- you just mean dance music.refunktion
- i meant trap musiclvl_13
- you just mean trap music.
refunktion
- Xopher0
Just saw this ad on tv. So shit.
- prophetone0
- :)sine
- I remember JBID from the Limelight in like 91...such good (hazy) memories!!!stoplying
- < Fucking hell that must've been AMAZING!soundsinsilence
- That James Brown Is Dead track was massive shit... good ol daysAmbushstudio
- cruddlebub0
TURN IT UP!!!!!
- I want to cry
Ambushstudio - tears of joy i presume?cruddlebub
- I feel so oldAmbushstudio
- I understand. You were there.
So was I. What a time to have been that age. What could ever live up to it ? Work ? : /mikotondria3 - I have this on vinyldiscoduro
- I want to cry
- cruddlebub0
I am going to hunt for all their albums and bang them on my phone, not listened to underworld in an age...
- They haven't exactly gone away...they scored the Olympics and released new album last yearukit2
- massiveAmbushstudio
- i knew they hadn't gone, i had just neglected themcruddlebub
- My interest in them left along with Darren Emerson. I was a large fan.MrT
- mikotondria30
To harken back to the question raised as the thread title: Yes, it probably is, it was as soon as it was snapped off the main body of dance music and given its own little title. Such titles have and always had, a limited and very predictable rise, fall and death. After it, the people making good quality music are still doing so - usually the same small, typically non-famous (with a few Weatherall-like exceptions), grinding away at the peripheries of what's possible with the newest equipment, and accidents of performances and spaces and crowds generate waves of popularities which meet and cancel or meet and reinforce. Soon enough, a suitable intersection of these aesthetic weatherfronts leaps up - apparently from nowhere to the unwary eye, crests and collapses in a hail of criticism and derision and poor taste. Meanwhile the hunters have silently moved on, regrouping in the darkest corners of an unheard forest, they alone share the joys of discovering the jewels in this hidden sonic realm.
- Akagiyama0
I've been a fan of Dance music for years...what it seems is that it has its ebb and flow...quality is still out there being made. This will pass eventually and come back around later.
- Krassy0
- hahaha..
it's expected thoughMiguex - if i was earning $15 million a year, i would play EDM also.
autoflavour
- hahaha..
- eoin0
Can someone please think of the boy in the fish tank?
- Oh man, 1999...Clannad. I feel so old now.Akagiyama
- that was so goodGeorgesIV
- so goodprophetone
- this was the best coming-down albumBeeswax
- scarabin0
the fallacy here is when he mentions "real music", as though someone (presumably he and his buddies) hold the unique authority to decide what people should enjoy and what they shouldn't, and if it's something he thinks they shouldn't then it's not "real music".
all dance music needs is a beat. one fucking animal hide hit with a stick repeatedly. all else is wankery. this guy's just angry that people aren't wanking the way he wants
- scarabin0
we're still dancing, so it's still very much alive :)
- tOki0
Wolfgang is very talented, I love his music. But he regularly has a cry about the state of "EDM"...I saw him live the other night and he refused to play one of his own songs that the crowd was chanting for and then a few days later was bagging out various other acts on facebook/twitter. Dude takes himself too seriously.
Maybe he needs to join QBN, because obviously his shit doesn't stink :P
- scarabin0
WHAT??!!! I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER ALL THE OONTZ
- That's the drop, bro - it's like the chorus in rock music. It's so you know what to think and that.mikotondria3
- stoplying0
To me it's not dead.