EDM

lol @ sherburne working himself into a froth over this on pitchfork

oh no

I will have to read that eventually but I’m going to stick with laughing my ass off right now

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/colonel-sanders-at-the-rave-kfc-presence-at-ultra-music-festival-was-disturbing/

Mostly just proud of how far SOPHIE’s come to be the example of pure innocent groundbreaking dance music in contrast to the Sanders set, as opposed to if this had happened in 2015 or so wherein we’d have to endure a paragraph’s worth of Sherburne attempting to tie this all together into a thesis about “ironic capitalism” or whatever

The problem with hot takes like this is that this phenomenon isn’t new, these lamentations that EDM is ‘too commercial these days’ have been going on since the 80s. Nobody expects good music at some corporate festival in Miami for rich kids, that’s not what these events are for. 25 years ago novelty tunes like Smurf House were in the charts, at the same time that Basic Channel and Eye-Q were active.

Also holding up the appearance of SOPHIE as supposedly raising the credentials/relevance of this festival is an odd take - I mean clubs like Tresor, Shoom or the Paradise Garage a did not need to sandwich a pop act like Bananarama or Ace Of Base between their DJs to be relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd9vB9A3pyw

here's your simpler time

kind of want to cane some trashy edm/brostep on runs. anyone wanna recommend a decent compilation < 120 minutes?

i'm cautiously curious about this

i'm almost certain i'll hate the answers but there's certain bits and pieces of prog trance (and trance.... step??) that cross over with tribal and electro that i have found myself kind of decadently enjoying

bumping this for basically the same request: can anyone point me to a fairly recent halfway decent EDM set? does such a thing exist?

the Swedish House Mafia albums are still by far the best of the genre.
would love to get pointers to anything more recent.

i've been following local facebook groups centered around edm where i live (utah). a few observations.

a LOT of people are into edm here (one of the main groups has 3.6k followers)

the "production companies" that feed the scene are fairly well-developed. it seems like a fair amount of people are getting paid full-time salaries.

big festivals almost quarterly. local weekly scene nights on both tuesdays and thursdays (both well-attended).

the vibe seems to be about keeping things as happy and positive and friendly as possible. at the root of this is an outlook and sensibility that is about maintaining innocence.

the scene seems to be "post-racial" in the sense that it's obviously very white but poc especially latinx are encouraged to participate if they don't rock the "colorblind" boat.

the music mostly sucks.

there is sharp edm out there for sure but like jam band scenes dullness is a big part of it

I feel like a lot of EDM I've heard is based on the principle that there must be a massive break and build up every 30 seconds

definitely a key feature

I don't know how so many people don't find that exhausting

really enjoy this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL-z0yqCA3s
Southstar - Miss You (Official Video)

can't find a thread for it