EDM: missing the old days
Hey y'all.
Hope everyone is enjoying quarantine and work. Today while I was getting a head start on work for the week I came across this gem, and I needed to share it with y'all. These guys are the OG group and absolute legends. Miss them
Hope you enjoy
pretty sick
I have been to Electric Zoo in NYC
I wonder when we'll get to have that again...
Seriously man, it kills me watching things like this...It's really starting to take a toll on people
Edm in the early 2010's was at its peak. Now, everyone is trying to create music that caters to the top 30 to make the most money possible.
Listen to Tiesto's Kaleidoscope and his earlier albums, they were awesome.. His new stuff like Red Lights, not so much imo
exactly, everyone wants to be like a calvin harris
used to love alesso but from 2016 onwards he changed from his progressive house and tried to do main stream stuff and it hasn't been the same
Do you have any track recommendations from alesso?
Tomorrowland 2012 on youtube. Incredible.
Yeah quality
oh yea, thats actually pure quality
so many legends over there
Trance Around The World with Above And Beyond
I LOVE ABOVE AND BEYOND. GROUP THERAPY!!
Hopefully SHM gets back together and releases another project sometime
This type of EDM is now a thing of the past. Listen to techno
amelie lens and mathame for cercle are absolute gas
Facts
Used to be heavily into Oliver Heldens, Avicii, Andrew Rayel and Lucas&Steve. Nowadays we have a lot of single-song allstars in EDM and we also have songs that last a lot longer. If I think about this past year, we had some mega mainstream songs like 'Roses', 'Piece of Your Heart', 'Ride It' cover almost a full year.
I'm personally not into EDM that much anymore as I switched to hiphop, but I'm not fully sold on the idea that EDM in the early 2010s was all that much better than it is now. We hear similar nostalgic comments across multiple other instances, the most obvious one is that Call of Duty isn't what it used to be. In reality, we just can't replicate the feeling we had because there was a different energy to hearing the music or playing the games. There is something to be said regarding the "popification" of EDM with artists like The Chainsmokers, but I don't think that is the artist we should be making comparisons with/to.
Gotta say, I absolutely love Oliver Heldens. He is the top person I wanna see live, with the exception of Eric Prydz.
Save the world will always be one of mine favorite EDM songs, especially with the Knife Party Remix version - The drop is just insane.
The old school (so weird to call it that) Swedish House Mafia shit was soooo good; they also had a diverse mix of melodic and grittier beats, which I really enjoyed. The good days of EDM are somewhat behind us now that the industry is so commercialized. Artists aren't really trying to innovate the way they were 10-20 years ago. I still love watching the sets from Ultra, EDC and Tomorrowland from back in like 2012 - 2014 when people playing didn't really give a fuck about how many Spotify listens they were going to get.
yea love garrix cause think he is just a genius but majority of people just like to play mainstream stuff
I miss EDM from when I was in high school. I remember going to an Avicii concert and hearing Levels live, in a crowd with such high energy, was just so fucking electric.
exactly bro, those were the golden days
That concert was the summer after senior year of high school for me. Six years later and still nothing topped it. On a side note, that show got a bad rep because a bunch of people got hospitalized (to much E I assume), but still... crazy experience.
I saw Avicii in Ibiza for his last performance and man was that awesome. He played plenty of his classics and it was an insane vibe out there.
I genuinely cant even fathom how hype that must have been
wow
honestly what i would do to go there and do that
unreal
I'm not sure if 2010s EDM music was better or if it's just nostalgic and brings me back to high school and college. Avicii dying was so depressing. Whenever I hear his music, Swedish House Mafia, early Martin Garrix, etc. it just transports me back to those youthful times.
exactly, good times
Hard Summer 2014
I'm almost all house music these days and it's been beautiful. Jamie XX and Disclosure are both dropping albums this year. Nicholas Jaar has been on repeat for me for a few months now. Wholly the convinced the best is yet to come for this genre.
Ugh...this thread just reminds me of what a terrible summer this is. I should be getting ready to spend the last 2 weeks of August somewhere in Europe
These are def fun if you’re a 25 year old that still lives with mom or are not straight.
EDM is alive and well more so than it ever has been with the number of artists and genres (still love the big room EDM you reference as well) ... some good artists to check out depending on your taste below. Get a good group of healthy friends, a light system, and have a good ol house roll... some quarantine fun right there.
House / Tech House / Bass House:
Chill Stuff:
Some hardcore shit for when you need to grind at work:
Good ship wrek house mix: https://soundcloud.com/theshipwrek/safe-inside-mix
Great list. I'd add Camelphat to the tech house artists
For chill I would add Satin Jackets, who is relatively unknown but produces pretty good stuff. I would also recommend EDX and Duke Dumont for house. PM me if u got any gems to share.
another fire gem if u guys are interested
Love listening to live concerts of Timmy Trump and KSHMR. I just have a party in my head the whole day. I feel like I'm part of a foreign mob/cult and I like it!
^ those are super underated
Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like EDM/House/Progressive/Electronica/Techno, et al don't really generally make mainstream radio so the good stuff never "transitions" out of popular culture since it never, really, was in the mass market to begin with. So, to me at least, (good) EDM isn't a thing of the past. It's timeless.
Recently fell in love with hard bass / dubstep type of EDM - Excision, Sullivan King, Sudden Death, etc.
The atmosphere at these concerts is fucking insane. Mosh pits all over, but good vibes all around. The perfect combo of rage and kindness. And for workouts, holy fuck.
Bass music festival vibes are something else. Can't wait till coronavirus lockdowns end...
Absolutely nothing gets me in my feels like Take Me Home by Cash Cash and This is What it Feels Like by Armin.
Tearing up sitting here just thinking about waking up on tailgate Saturday’s to those songs blaring...
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