EDM thread

As you can see, I love EDM. Like metal, it has tons of genres and subgenres, like house, techno, trance, breakbeat, drum n bass, hardstyle, psytrance, gabber, speedcore, downtempo, and tons more. Discuss everything EDM related. You can also post songs that you like.

Can't not post a couple selections from VNV Nation..






Apoptygma Berzerk..




Mortal's 'Nu En Jin' album is a brilliant fusion of many things..

you guys, it isn't 1988..electronic music is no longer outlawed/the devil. There is good songwriting here, give it a shot or three.

Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

you guys, it isn't 1988..electronic music is no longer outlawed/the devil. There is good songwriting here, give it a shot or three.

I'm more of a 70s Electronic Music guy anyway: Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Manuel Gottsching, Michael Hoenig, Synergy, Kitaro, Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann and Vangelis.

With some 80s stuff: Michael Garrison, Johannes Schmoelling, Christopher Franke(I think he's 90s, but oh well)

Kudos for mentioning Apoptygma Berzerk. The main man behind that band is from my town

I went through a year long techno/industrial phase back in 1994. Some of the stuff I still like from that time would be Meat Beat Manifesto, Consolidated, and The Utah Saints. I've also always been a big fan of Kraftwerk and Nitzer Ebb.

jstate wrote:

I went through a year long techno/industrial phase back in 1994. Some of the stuff I still like from that time would be Meat Beat Manifesto, Consolidated, and The Utah Saints. I've also always been a big fan of Kraftwerk and Nitzer Ebb.

I really need to give Kraftwerk a listen..........

What is EDM?

Canned noise.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Canned noise.

Ick. I played some of those embedded posts. I'd rather listen to my parents have sex. And my mom is filthy.

It's the rage though. EDM just means, Electronic Dance Music and seems to cover anything that is keyboard driven. Just no my thing.

VGmaster, what is that thing in your avatar? Looks kind of like some torturous codpiece.

Dark Horseman wrote:

VGmaster, what is that thing in your avatar? Looks kind of like some torturous codpiece.

I think it's the new Fear Factory logo from their forthcoming album, Torturous Codpiece. I might be mistaken though. I've been inhaling marker fumes this morning.

Gave some of those clips a try and mmmmm...not my thang.

Stuff like this always makes me think of "Dieter" from SNL:



"I am insane now. Would you like to touch my monkey?"

Maybe try something slower first?




This one is dark, yeah, but much of this music does have a dark shade to it......I actually find it surprising there's not more fans, with so many growing up in the cyberpunk era of Blade Runner and et al. There's a big, big, big difference between Jersey Shoreish dubstep whatever and music like this.

Maybe that's the problem, it always reminds of some cyber movie.

Dark Horseman wrote:

It's the rage though. EDM just means, Electronic Dance Music and seems to cover anything that is keyboard driven. Just no my thing.

So EDM is some new term made up by pretentious ass-hat trendsters for music that already has perfectly fine labels?

Eyesore wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

It's the rage though. EDM just means, Electronic Dance Music and seems to cover anything that is keyboard driven. Just no my thing.

So EDM is some new term made up by pretentious ass-hat trendsters for music that already has perfectly fine labels?

That sounds right to me.

Dark Horseman wrote:

VGmaster, what is that thing in your avatar? Looks kind of like some torturous codpiece.

It's the logo for Fear Factory's new album The Industrialist.

Eyesore wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

It's the rage though. EDM just means, Electronic Dance Music and seems to cover anything that is keyboard driven. Just no my thing.

So EDM is some new term made up by pretentious ass-hat trendsters for music that already has perfectly fine labels?

Except that a lot of people get really really upset over specific labels/genres....

Eyesore wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

It's the rage though. EDM just means, Electronic Dance Music and seems to cover anything that is keyboard driven. Just no my thing.

So EDM is some new term made up by pretentious ass-hat trendsters for music that already has perfectly fine labels?

What label/name is that? I want to know so I can avoid it as well.

xxx

I'm testing the waters of this genre now... stuff like the Knife, Mortal, Aphex Twin, Leftfield, and Boards of Canada. Some of the darker EDM I've heard is really good.

Wendy Carlos FTW.

I'm pretty sure that you are ALL going to LOVE these!!