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


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pretty sick

I have been to Electric Zoo in NYC

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
LATAMpapi:
Tomorrowland 2012 on youtube. Incredible.

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

Dayman?
 

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:

  • Kaskade, Ship Wrek, Noizu, Kyle Watson, San Pancho. Dom Dolla, AC Slater, Matroda, Duke Domont, The Sponges, Tchami, Green Velvet, Marten Hoger, G Gones, Volac, Wax Motif, Valentino Khan, Carl Cox, Gesaffelstein, Dombresky (the song Utopia was my foray into house music with its dirty drop)

Chill Stuff:

  • Rufus, Disclosure, BRONSON + Odesza, Caribou, Lane 8, FOUR TET, Crooked Colours, Polo & Pan, ZHU, Bob Moses,

Some hardcore shit for when you need to grind at work:

  • SVDDEN DEATH, Seven Lions, Kayzo, GRAVEDGR, Habstract, Drezo

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.

 

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.

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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.

 

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...

"My name's Ralph Cox, and I'm from where ever's not gonna get me hit"
 

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