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Re: Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of

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Post by engtech »

shawnjanas wrote: post #33
bulletsvshumans wrote: post #30

Is it me or is it not possible to adjust the volume on their player? I'm using standard iPod headphones right now, and even with my system volume turned down to its lowest setting the output is too high.

Good to know. I will add a volume adjuster.

That's another feature that makes this "better than soundcloud" because they don't provide a volume adjust on their site.

Really annoying for those times when I've been playing soundcloud in the background with some other audio source in the foreground (like a video game, or even just mail notifications going beep)

Re: Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of

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Post by cornflakers »

j_s wrote: post #42

I was listening and thought 'hey, I actually like this track' (rather than just being something to listen to) but there was no 'buy' or 'like'/'thumbs up' etc. Thanks for this site!

there is a tweet/share on FB that is how i track the tunes im like 'holy smokes' too until the playlist feature is released

Re: Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of

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Post by cornflakers »

louthy wrote: post #31

I click on 'House' and it plays Dubstep, and then cheesy trance, followed by more of the same cheese. It's just pop-music basically. I don't mean to bitch, but to claim "Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of" - and then be presented with pop-music is a little disingenuous. Where's the underground genres? Tech-house, minimal techno, dub techno, electro, etc...

woah, we got ourselves a hipster here... man, if the devs were to put the undergound music here then it wouldn't be undergound anymore and you would probably boycott or ddos the site so no one else could listen to your precious dublectrance rahouse mixes ...

Re: Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of

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Post by shawnjanas »

engtech wrote: post #38
engtech wrote: post #34

So under the hood, it is just random tracks curated from existing blogs using their soundcloud pages? http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/ http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass http://soundcloud.com/housemusic So I guess the next genres to be added are: -Electro.NET -Moombahton.NET -GlitchHop.NET -TrapMusic.NET -FutureGarage.NET -HardDance.NET

I'm not knocking you for using those sources btw, that's a decent way to ignore the hard part of a problem to get to a minimum viable product -- plus licensing tracks is soundcloud's problems. Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because their interface of overlaying comments on the waveform while playing tracks is at best distracting and at worst causes my web browser to crash all the time. When listening to sound…

The only filters I have now are tracks larger than 10 minutes since I wanted to avoid including long mixes for now. Never thought about tracks possible being previews. I will look into that as well as thanks for the suggestions.

Re: Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of

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Post by JonnieCache »

engtech wrote: post #38
engtech wrote: post #34

So under the hood, it is just random tracks curated from existing blogs using their soundcloud pages? http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/ http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass http://soundcloud.com/housemusic So I guess the next genres to be added are: -Electro.NET -Moombahton.NET -GlitchHop.NET -TrapMusic.NET -FutureGarage.NET -HardDance.NET

I'm not knocking you for using those sources btw, that's a decent way to ignore the hard part of a problem to get to a minimum viable product -- plus licensing tracks is soundcloud's problems. Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because their interface of overlaying comments on the waveform while playing tracks is at best distracting and at worst causes my web browser to crash all the time. When listening to sound…

>Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because their interface of overlaying comments on the waveform while playing tracks is at best distracting and at worst causes my web browser to crash all the time.

The beta of the new SC interface doesnt do that anymore.

Re: Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of

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Post by louthy »

otaku888 wrote: post #39
louthy wrote: post #31

I click on 'House' and it plays Dubstep, and then cheesy trance, followed by more of the same cheese. It's just pop-music basically. I don't mean to bitch, but to claim "Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of" - and then be presented with pop-music is a little disingenuous. Where's the underground genres? Tech-house, minimal techno, dub techno, electro, etc...

There is nothing underground about Tech-house unfortunately. 6ft under would be a blessing though.

Without wanting to get into genre wars, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. There's a brand of music at the moment calling itself 'tech house', but it's basically also pop-garbage like the stream from the OP.

Tech-house as a term has been bastardised in the same way as 'trance' in the mid-90s. There's still some amazing stuff out there though, but you need to dig for it. Unfortunately I don't think the OP site is going to help if it purely filters tags on Soundcloud (if you're really unlucky you'll hear some of my tracks, ha!).

Some real tech-house classics:

Callisto - Resistance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THPQP0-yK54

Inner City – Ahnongay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0rhmECo_Xc

Re: Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of

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Post by louthy »

cornflakers wrote: post #44
louthy wrote: post #31

I click on 'House' and it plays Dubstep, and then cheesy trance, followed by more of the same cheese. It's just pop-music basically. I don't mean to bitch, but to claim "Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of" - and then be presented with pop-music is a little disingenuous. Where's the underground genres? Tech-house, minimal techno, dub techno, electro, etc...

woah, we got ourselves a hipster here... man, if the devs were to put the undergound music here then it wouldn't be undergound anymore and you would probably boycott or ddos the site so no one else could listen to your precious dublectrance rahouse mixes ...

Not at all. The impression given by the title is that it's going to be obscure electronic music, which I thought would be excellent. I was pretty shocked to hear what came out of the speakers when clicking through.

I didn't realise when I first posted that it was streamed from Soundcloud. So I understand what the "you've probably never heard of" bit was about now.

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