Deadmau5, Skrillex, etc. and My Resume

if you compose/perform electronic music, sure put it on your resume

but you just like it? who gives a shit. leave off.

When in doubt, go conservative. It's a risk if you put it on. Otherwise, it's nothing important.

not an expert but i'm thinking yeah leave your musical tastes off your resume.

big deadmau5 fan too, cant get enough of cocktail queen, ghosts, dr funk, some chords, etc. - good music to work to. will check out those other names you mentioned

Yeah that goes on facebook not your resume.

Not resume quality...unless you have a substantial following and are an electronic music artist

One of my friends has "Hip Hop Music" as his interests. He was asked to rap, at which point he said he didn't. Then he was asked who were the members of the Wu-Tang Clan, who his favorite rapper was, and a few other questions. I thought it was funny.

check out Figure... I saw him at Tech Fest last year and he was off the hooooooook. Sweatiest I've ever gotten during a set, literally danced my balls off, literally. Calvertron's good too... Madeon is crazy and he's 17 I think?...

http://www.youtube.com/embed/lTx3G6h2xyA

How involved in composing electronic music do you have to be to mention it? I've been messing around lately, but I'm too much of a perfectionist to actually complete a song.

LOL Deadmau5 and Skrillex? Congrats you have the same taste in music as my 12 year old cousin. If you want to get past the mainstream pop garbage you listen to and get into real electronic music here are some good links to consider:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1422

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3293/electroniclist.jpg

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/1430/essentialdubstepsingles.jpg

Note: If you have ADD and have the musical intellect of a retarded chimp (which you probably do since you enjoy Deadmau5 and Skrillex), you probably won't enjoy this type of music. For anyone that wants to get into actual legitimate electronic music i would check out the above songs/artists

now now now, nobody likes an elitist...

brostep itt

lol leave this off the resume. I am a very big fan of uplifting trance myself but it doesnt go on the resume.

I've read resumes that say the same thing. You may write "I like electronica" but I would read "I like to roll ecstasy" - ding!

Goodbread, I haven't seen Iskur's Guide to Electronic Music in years. That's for the link. It brings back old memories of explaining all the nuances of techno to my friends back when I was in High School and for the early part of Freshman year in College.

No.

I know Frieds. I've basically given up on explaining the distinctions although I'll object to horrible misuses of the word 'house.'

me n my friends were hipsters before it was cool

seriously though -_-

only in regards to music though, I've never tried to look poor... and I'm done insulting people for listening to Nickelback and Hoobastank

I'm more of a house guy so I don't try to defend techno from the aberrations it gets mixed up in. Lately more and more people have been calling any generic pop song 'house' which is ridiculous (I'm looking at you D. Guetta..).

Guetta is "Dance," not house. And I hate that I can't say 'house' and refer to Avicii, Dada Life, Prydz, or Sander van Doorn without someone thinking of Guetta, FLO RIDA, or some other radio anthem legend.

Besides, I can't take someone seriously who advocates that neurotic mess of sound from a fax machine dry humping a bottomed out jet-ski that people call "dubstep."

OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHA HILARIOUS!!!

I am worried that trance is dying because the big boys in 2011 said "we are no longer going to make trance" they sold out essentially to make more money by going with a house brand.

2012 projection..... Arty continues his rise to the top and cracks the DJ mag top 10.

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A Posse Ad Esse:

Besides, I can't take someone seriously who advocates that neurotic mess of sound from a fax machine dry humping a bottomed out jet-ski that people call "dubstep."

OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHA HILARIOUS!!!

I saw Arty open before Avicii on NYE .. great set. I wasn't that familiar with him before, I'd heard a few of his remixes but I know none of his original tracks. And you're right; trance, unfortunately, is dying.

If you like Pryda, these are his best.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/tXMZeN0rLZc?rel=0

http://www.youtube.com/embed/GVUI90l06ak?rel=0

http://idocks.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/meridian-pryda/

Also, I don't like when people don't know about producers' alternate handles. Pryda has three names he goes by, he uses a different one for each mood he crafts with. Pryda is most of his popular, mainstream, electro house stuff. Eric Prydz is his more progressive house, and Cirez D is just tank.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/wAU9u1lT2Rk?rel=0

i like early pryda stuff more. he kept the rawness from cirez d but much more melodic. if we're going to get on pet peeves, i hate that people only know dude from the call on me video

Fellow trance fans bemoaning the end of Trance in favor of 'Trouse' (e.g. Arty, Mat Zo, Avicii) - don't get me wrong, it's fun to listen to, but it's definitely not Trance.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/66Q4W0k32us

You guys all sound like house music hipsters.

dacarez you know the type stuff I like. You bring up Arty and Mat Zo..... I honestly love both..... The Wall Remode is was my track of the year for 2011.

Trouse... I like it as long as its the faster paced higher energy kind. Pure trance whores were not happy when progressive took over the genre. What used to be known as trance is now known as "hard trance" and now progressive trance is just trance.

Avicii/pryda are about as far as I will lean into the house spectrum.

EDIT: OH MY GOD AT THE KING OF THE HILL CLIP!!!! Honestly that trouse would be the some of the typical stuff I listen to. Oh well maybe I am the one going soft here. I guess i need to tune up more hard trance on di.fm to get back into the spirit.

EDIT2: One minute into listening to hard trance there is no doubt I still like the more traditional trance. di.fm is even calling it "classic trance" (hard trance) formerly just known as trance

I must be too young. Didn't dig that channel. That site is amazing though.

OP you're a troll or just fucking stupid. Unless you produce your own music, there's no reason to list a genre of music you like on your resume. Maybe if a huge part of your life revolves around electronic music (eg. you go to every major concert, know everything about the genre, etc), it'd be acceptable, but seeing as how you listed the most mainstream electronic artists as your reason for liking electronic music, I highly doubt that that's the case.

yeee9: please kill yourself. nobody cares about your underground acid indie triphop electroacoustic bullshit. if you love that boring-ass music, that's fine, but stop flaunting your own personal taste in music as if it's superior to everyone else's. Not everybody enjoys listening to that shit. if I had to list 5 things I hate the most in this world, I think "music elitists" would be one of them.