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FlyonFuck EDM, UK Bass for life.
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Graham.The EDM "Scene", and rave culture, and PLUR and all that is horseshit if you ask me. However, there are sections of EDM I do enjoy. Such as this. ASOT (A State of Trance) is so good.
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lIllIIts associated scene notwithstanding, hip-hop is an infinitely more respectable form of music than EDM, and I say this as someone who hates hip-hop.
sammykyou can't produce their music on stage live, its just not possible.
elindeI fucking hate the term EDM. All it does is generalize all electronic music into the category of mindless festival bangers and Steve Aoki.
FlyonFuck EDM, UK Bass for life.
Alistair.Scene here in the UK is exploding like there's no tomorrow. Chris Lorenzo's touring the US at the moment and It's going down a storm by the looks of things. Techno was born in Detroit and House in Chicago but Europe's producers doing a hell of a job with what they're turning out at the moment.
Big room house sounds so samey and personally I'm not a fan.
ObeseBunnyIf you need MDMA just to enjoy the music, you need to listen to something else.
Graham.The EDM "Scene", and rave culture, and PLUR and all that is horseshit if you ask me. However, there are sections of EDM I do enjoy. Such as this. ASOT (A State of Trance) is so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAo-t6bmGbo
plyswthsqrrlsthis is pretty much where I'm at. all the EDM plugs I know started taking it just at these shows to enjoy the music more. It's fucking dumb, if you need to alter your state of mind just to enjoy the music you paid $100+ to see / hear live, something's wrong.
Some electronic music is great (adventure club and porter robinson are basically the only "EDM" I'll listen to), and some DJ's actually do mix live, like porter.
but whatever really, to each their own I guess
blondie.If you were at a concert that wasn't EDM and had the opportunity to do something (say, eat a sandwich) that would cause you to enjoy the music more, would you? Let me try this: if you were hanging out with your friends and you had the opportunity to ingest something (alcohol) to enjoy yourselves, would you? It's not that the music isn't enjoyable to those people without the drugs. The drugs heighten the experience, the same way people go to Dead and Phish stoned (to quote a stereotype).
Disclaimer: highly idealized. I don't go to shows or do the drugs. People may go just to do drugs, but I think it's unfair to make that generalization for all.
plyswthsqrrlsPersonally, I wouldn't (don't drink or do drugs, inb4 what a pussy), but hey I'm not judging them as people or anything. I just think the fact that they can spend their whole lives going to shows sober and having a great time, but as soon as its EDM all of a sudden they need drugs to enjoy it seems weird to me.
And it definitely isn't everyone, I shouldn't have said everyone you're right, I know some people who are actually fans of the music and respect the talent some of these artists have and don't need drugs to enjoy the show. Those people are few and far between though in my experience
that video was fucking great though
blondie.No offense, but if you don't like the music, you're probably not going to find the people who are actually fans. Additionally, how do you know your friends need the drugs? Did they tell you that the music sucks otherwise?
I'm not saying that everyone who likes EDM (in some form) likes it for the musical quality, because a lot of it sucks. But people don't just listen to it to do drugs, and the people who do use drugs aren't unique. People go to concerts of all types and genres and get fucked up. The only way that this genre is different is that there are a lot of artists with really similar sounds and that the drugs of choice are pretty isolated to this scene.
You can think whatever you want of the people who listen to EDM. However, it's not fair to write off the music because of the people who give it a bad name.
plyswthsqrrlsIn all honesty I used to be a huge EDM fan, listened to everything (progressive house, big room, hardstyle, dnb, whatever). It's only been the past few years that I've found its become incredibly repetitive and seemingly uninspired in my opinion.
I'm mostly just making the inference that they need the drugs at these shows because they never need them at other shows, just seems weird to me. You could definitely say I'm making an unfair assumption, and I really wouldn't be able to argue with you it's just the way it appears to me.
I'm not writing off the genre as a whole, there's tons of EDM that I used to really love and will still listen to on occasion. Some electronic music is unreal, but a vast majority of the more "popular" songs I hear lately are pretty brutal imo
plyswthsqrrlsa vast majority of the more "popular" songs I hear lately are pretty brutal imo
Alistair.Scene here in the UK is exploding like there's no tomorrow. Chris Lorenzo's touring the US at the moment and It's going down a storm by the looks of things. Techno was born in Detroit and House in Chicago but Europe's producers doing a hell of a job with what they're turning out at the moment.
Big room house sounds so samey and personally I'm not a fan.
Ribss.Wrong.
