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Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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Post by driverdan »

JonnieCache wrote: post #129
whalesalad wrote: post #20

I can hack/design for hours without even knowing it while listening to Kap Slap. It also helps you run a 5K faster than you might have originally imagined :) Anyone who likes remixes/house/dubstep I'd encourage you check it out! The spring break mix is an hour long and it's full of goodies. http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix p.s. I'm only evangelizing this stuff so much because honestly if I set…

How/why has bargain-basement recycled eurotrance from 15 years ago become the latest thing amongst american youth? As someone living in the south of the UK this is one of the strangest and most unexpected developments in global popular music in recent years. I'm sorry if this sounds snobbish but I genuinely want/need to understand this, and I would appreciate any opinions or theories from americans as to how/why this…

This happens with every genre of music. When it's young it's well known in the area it starts. As it spreads the new areas tend to lag. As popularity grows the genre changes and people who knew about it since it was young bitch about how going mainstream killed it.

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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Post by nhangen »

highace wrote: post #119
whalesalad wrote: post #20

I can hack/design for hours without even knowing it while listening to Kap Slap. It also helps you run a 5K faster than you might have originally imagined :) Anyone who likes remixes/house/dubstep I'd encourage you check it out! The spring break mix is an hour long and it's full of goodies. http://soundcloud.com/kapslap/kap-slap-spring-break-mix p.s. I'm only evangelizing this stuff so much because honestly if I set…

This is not good for productivity! I've just spent the last hour with my hands in the air.

No kidding. I was tapping my foot so much I got leg cramps.

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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Post by umjames »

OK, so no one's going to mention Above & Beyond's Group Therapy Miami set for this year's Winter Music Conference?

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/above-and-beyond-live-group...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/mat-zo-live-group-therapy-m...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/arty-group-therapy-miami-wm...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/andrew-bayer-live-group-the...

http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/boom-jinx-live-group-therap...

Or Pretty Lights' The Hot Shit radio show?

http://soundcloud.com/prettylights/pretty-lights-the-hot-sh-...

You're welcome.

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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Post by umjames »

thetabyte wrote: post #56
fourk wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're looking for more mashups, check out Girl Talk, Milkman, and Super Mash Bros. If you're looking for similar electronic music sets, here are a couple I've been digging lately: Kaskade's set from Coachella, soundboard recording. http://www.themusicninja.com/live-set-full-kaskade-coachella... Porter Robinson's BBC Essential Mix - http://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/porter-robinson-essential-m... Knife Party's BBC…

If you like Knife Party, you might like the band's main project (Knife Party is a mini-project by two band members from a group named Pendulum.) They do fantastic drum and bass. Immersion, their most recent album, may be their best. The Island Pt. II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBIYl88Zwyc Witchcraft: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AooMCiV2eb4 Their other albums, In Silico (Showdown, the Temptest) and Hold Your C…

That explains why I like both Knife Party and Pendulum's sound. Set Me On Fire is an awesome Pendulum track.

Re: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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Post by JonnieCache »

driverdan wrote: post #131
JonnieCache wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How/why has bargain-basement recycled eurotrance from 15 years ago become the latest thing amongst american youth? As someone living in the south of the UK this is one of the strangest and most unexpected developments in global popular music in recent years. I'm sorry if this sounds snobbish but I genuinely want/need to understand this, and I would appreciate any opinions or theories from americans as to how/why this…

This happens with every genre of music. When it's young it's well known in the area it starts. As it spreads the new areas tend to lag. As popularity grows the genre changes and people who knew about it since it was young bitch about how going mainstream killed it.

What you are saying is true. However that's not really my point.

Firstly, I've never liked trance, so I'm not trying to defend my pet genre from infiltrators. On the contrary, I thought I'd seen the back of it ten years ago, outside certain areas of continental europe. then, suddenly, it's the thing in the US.

Now, the united states has always had its own rich history of electronic dance music, indeed they invented it. Pretty much all electronic music from the last 30 years worldwide is derived from Detroit techno and Chicago house. That lineage has continued unbroken in those places to this day, yet that type of dance music has never really attained popular success in its own country.

So, why is this form of very continentally-european music suddenly achieving populaity in what is actually its distant ancestral home? And why now? These things usually lag about three to five years as you say; trance has been a creative cul-de-sac for at least four of those cycles.

The stateside rise of dubstep and electro house makes more sense to me: it's a substitute for nu-metal and radio rock. Trance, as I say, is an absolute non sequitur.

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