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

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

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Post by fumar »

You did a great job with the Title,"Discover the best Dance Music." This is a critique on your music selection and not your project. The music under your "House" label was not house at all. It was pop-dubstep. If your going to entice music lovers, you will have to get the genres right. Know your target.

Personally, I was excited, then very quickly disappointed. I am always looking for some quality house to listen while working.

*nice deep house, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpopObJysQ4

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

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Post by shawnjanas »

fumar wrote: post #51

You did a great job with the Title,"Discover the best Dance Music." This is a critique on your music selection and not your project. The music under your "House" label was not house at all. It was pop-dubstep. If your going to entice music lovers, you will have to get the genres right. Know your target. Personally, I was excited, then very quickly disappointed. I am always looking for some quality house to listen whi…

Currently using pre curated tracks from http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/ http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass http://soundcloud.com/housemusic

I agree the genres are off. Will be working on improving them.

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

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Post by codeulike »

engtech wrote: post #41
shawnjanas wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

They do, but its in the top-right corner of the page. Took me months to notice.

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

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Post by parkan »

shawnjanas wrote: post #52
fumar wrote: post #51

You did a great job with the Title,"Discover the best Dance Music." This is a critique on your music selection and not your project. The music under your "House" label was not house at all. It was pop-dubstep. If your going to entice music lovers, you will have to get the genres right. Know your target. Personally, I was excited, then very quickly disappointed. I am always looking for some quality house to listen whi…

Currently using pre curated tracks from http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/ http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass http://soundcloud.com/housemusic I agree the genres are off. Will be working on improving them.

Soundcloud tags are not curation!

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

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Post by parkan »

cornflakers wrote: post #2

this site has been such a wicked hit at both the office and the party scene, whoever came up with this is genius, thanks for making my musical tastes in such a quick, fun and easy to use package!

created: 2 hours ago

are sockpuppet accounts frowned upon around here?

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

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Post by louthy »

hoka wrote: post #17
megablast wrote: post #11

Do many people listen to electronic music a track at a time? I only listen to mixes, which can be up to 2 hours at a time. Essential mixes are great for this.

EMs are great, and I've listened to ~30 of them, but I feel like I'm 'out' of mixes to listen to given what my tastes are. My tastes are definitely pretty diverse, too. I've been hitting youtube for mixes, and you'd be pleasantly surprised at the quality. Goingquantum is very good.

Try the Fabric blog for some quality mixes:

http://www.fabriclondon.com/blog

Shameless plug:

http://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/audio-paul-louth-fabri...

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

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Post by crazcarl »

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...

I got the link off here a while ago, and listen to earbits for electronic music. earbits.com has around 40 different sub-genres of electronic music (they also have non-electronic genres with tons of sub-genres as well).

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

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Post by meaty »

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 ...

I agree with the GP. It's pop trash.

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

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Post by cornflakers »

louthy wrote: post #48
otaku888 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 th…

this link said nothing about providing 'tech house' see title for 'electronic dance house' which would show your distaste for music 'popular' enough to be used in a large dance/rave setting

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

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Post by cornflakers »

iconfinder wrote: post #47

Dubstep, DnB, house ... Why only these 3 genres, most of the top djs ( http://www.djmag.com/top100 ) play trance, deep trance and electro. Seems like a weird choice to me.

its just a proof of concept and i think the devs are aiming to dump tons of content (that can be accessed within license) into the sleek and efficient usability of turnchannel.
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