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EDM |OT| Future Flo-Rida Hits

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Aomber

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BLOODED_hands said:
Ok.... I'm roaming around the net looking for all the up-to-date info for Tomorrowland Belgium 2016. I've got the OT almost complete and it will be posted later this week!

Just need to find out who are actually being streamed and then the OT should be finished.
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I almost yolo'd and bought a flight to belgium today LOL but friends weren't on board

At least I can enjoy it from the comfort of my home
 
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BLOODED_hands

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Aomber said:
I almost yolo'd and bought a flight to belgium today LOL but friends weren't on board

At least I can enjoy it from the comfort of my home
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Lol, should have done it. Now you're going to be feeling regret later this week :p

I'm still deciding on the OT title. The first one is a joke: DV&LM ARE THE BEST DJs EVAR

My second one is the tagline from the website: Live Today. Love Tomorrow. Unite Forever

Give me titles, EDM-GAF!
 
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Aomber

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BLOODED_hands said:
Lol, should have done it. Now you're going to be feeling regret later this week :p

I'm still deciding on the OT title. The first one is a joke: DV&LM ARE THE BEST DJs EVAR

My second one is the tagline from the website: Live Today. Love Tomorrow. Unite Forever

Give me titles, EDM-GAF!
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Haha it's all good, I'm satisfied that I've done Tomorrowland once, I'd love to do it again one day but it's not on my immediate radar. Right now I'm more interested in doing Coachella since my heart has pulled me more towards live music lately so I'd rather save the money for that. What I really wanna do if I do Tomorrowland again, which I don't know if this will EVER be feasible due to time constraints, is head over to Croatia first for Ultra Europe, travel in between the two and maybe even hit up the nightclub scene in Amsterdam or Berlin or some shit, then head to Brussels for Tomorrowland :D.

The one thing I'll say about anyone planning to go to Tomorrowland is be ready to retire from EDM festivals because it'll ruin all the other ones for you LAWL

Tomorrowland Music Festival |OT| Yes Disney Is Hosting A Music Festival Now

Edit: Also this is the box the bracelets came in this year

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Anth0ny

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I wonder why fans of electronic music are SO defensive over their favorite genre. It seems like such a common thing for people to call out certain music/artists as being SHIT. Especially common amongst trance "elitists", I've noticed. I saw Armin live a couple of weeks ago at Digital Dreams in Toronto, thought his set was awesome, and went online to see posts about "holding a moment of silence for the death of trance." how fucking melodramatic lol.

Sometimes I feel like the only person on earth who legitimately enjoys dubstep, and trap, and deep house, and future house, and electro house, and trance... it's nuts. I'm certainly the only one in my group of friends.


Mr Solo Dolo said:
Last day in work before I set off for Tomorrowland. It's going to be a long one.
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daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, enjoy!

I'll go one day...
 
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BLOODED_hands

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Anth0ny said:
I wonder why fans of electronic music are SO defensive over their favorite genre. It seems like such a common thing for people to call out certain music/artists as being SHIT. Especially common amongst trance "elitists", I've noticed. I saw Armin live a couple of weeks ago at Electric Elements in Toronto, thought his set was awesome, and went online to see posts about "holding a moment of silence for the death of trance." how fucking melodramatic lol.

Sometimes I feel like the only person on earth who legitimately enjoys dubstep, and trap, and deep house, and future house, and electro house, and trance... it's nuts. I'm certainly the only one in my group of friends.
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It's more prevalent now due to how EDM is still "new". I read it alot over at reddit and sometimes on GAF. There are alot of elitists in every other musical genre. It used to be Hip-Hop and Rap, today it's about EDM. Within EDM, there are elitist folks for Trance, Bigroom haters, Electro House haters, Hardstyle elitists, etc.
 
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Aomber

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Anth0ny said:
I wonder why fans of electronic music are SO defensive over their favorite genre. It seems like such a common thing for people to call out certain music/artists as being SHIT. Especially common amongst trance "elitists", I've noticed. I saw Armin live a couple of weeks ago at Digital Dreams in Toronto, thought his set was awesome, and went online to see posts about "holding a moment of silence for the death of trance." how fucking melodramatic lol.

Sometimes I feel like the only person on earth who legitimately enjoys dubstep, and trap, and deep house, and future house, and electro house, and trance... it's nuts. I'm certainly the only one in my group of friends.




daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, enjoy!

I'll go one day...
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Those people complaining about Armin are being ridiculous. Everyone knows what kind of mainstage set he plays, if they don't like it and want trance he still plays trance at different events.

As for music elitism, you're right for sure that some people make massive sweeping generalizations for genres, it's always been true for music. That being said I get frustrated with edm because so much of it sounds the same, and I think that's where a lot of unwarranted hate comes from with other people. They don't look properly, there's great music in all the genres you named it's all about finding what's good.

Funny because I actually think what "trance purists" enjoy is in a really stagnant and stale place right now yet you're right that they often can be some of the biggest elitists.
 
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Aomber

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I am too drunk to be posting in this thread. Fuck I need to go to an edm event SOONNN 😄 hoping to party with some of my fucking gaf homies eventually!!
 
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Aomber

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Not strictly speaking EDM related but it's related to EDM and music history overall. Moog has re-launched their first original synth from the 1970s which was the first synth to be sold in actual music stores, and is probably the most famous synth to date, specifically known as the "minimoog model D".

Pretty cool stuff :D some of you know I picked up my own Moog Sub 37 a little while back (a more modern synth released in 2014) so it's cool to see them do a throwback to a classic. I kinda would have liked to have seen them use the same internals but with a few modern additions to it (for example you can't save sounds you've created) but I understand why they decided not to take that route.

Demo video >> https://youtu.be/iwKtBqR7kwM

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Also I had to post this, via alisonwonderland

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Aomber

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To avoid spoilers I've put a link to photos of the Tomorrowland mainstage below if anyone is interested before seeing it officially.

Final warning: DO NOT click the link below if you're attending Tomorrowland and don't want the mainstage spoiled

Tomorrowland Mainstage Photos
 
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Aomber

Member
Full release of the Major Lazer, Bieber, and MO song. Yeah the more I listen the less I like it, it's just not really in line with the wackyness of Major Lazer, impressions remain the same as pre-release

Major Lazer - Cold Water (feat. Justin Bieber & MØ) (Official Lyric Video)

One thing I saw recently was this video made by a visual effects group called Method Studios that I thought was insanely fucking cool and goes nicely with a great song :D check it out!

Major Lazer – Light it Up (feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG) [Music Video Remix] by Method Studios
 
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Samurai G0SU

Member
Aomber said:
Not strictly speaking EDM related but it's related to EDM and music history overall. Moog has re-launched their first original synth from the 1970s which was the first synth to be sold in actual music stores, and is probably the most famous synth to date, specifically known as the "minimoog model D".

Pretty cool stuff :D some of you know I picked up my own Moog Sub 37 a little while back (a more modern synth released in 2014) so it's cool to see them do a throwback to a classic. I kinda would have liked to have seen them use the same internals but with a few modern additions to it (for example you can't save sounds you've created) but I understand why they decided not to take that route.

Demo video >> https://youtu.be/iwKtBqR7kwM

A2NqZMR.jpg


Also I had to post this, via alisonwonderland

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that just killed me.. LMAO!!
 
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ibitegirls

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Few new songs I added to my playlist...loving ZHU right now lol

ZHU + Kaskade

https://soundcloud.com/zhu/kaskade-vs-zhu-in-the-morning

ZHU - Palm of my hand

https://soundcloud.com/zhu/palm-of-my-hand

London Grammar - Hey Now (Arty Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/londongrammar/hey-now-arty-remix-2

Rufus - You were right

https://soundcloud.com/rufussounds/you-were-right-1

Psychemagik - Mink & Shoes feat Navid Izadi

https://soundcloud.com/psychemagik/mink-shoes-feat-navid-izadi

Adam K remix - Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved (Adam K & Soha Vocal Remix)

https://soundcloud.com/adamk/reflekt-need-to-feel-loved-adam-k-soha-vocal-remix
 
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Aomber

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Zhu's latest work is here in the form of a 14 track LP known as GENERATIONWHY. He's been around the scene for a couple years now with notable works such as Faded and Working For It hitting the mainstream audience with a distinctly dark sound that nobody else was really bringing to the table.

It's clear that ZHU is greatly influenced by jazz music as he has spoken in the past about his jazz background - he has clearly taken the approach of combining many of those sounds with electronic music. On GENERATIONWHY, while maintaining some of that dark feeling, mostly would be better described as mellow. He reaches into familiar territory on this LP by kicking off with Cold Blooded and In The Morning while going into some slightly more energetic tone by following up with Secret Weapon and Electrify Me, the latter closely resembling some earlier works from Disclosure (almost too much so). Zhu throws in some light hearted tunes especially at the end with tracks such as Hometown Girl and Generationwhy, a welcome change of pace from that darker, grimier feeling of a substantial amount of his work, and one could argue that more or less the entire album is tropical house, just with his own twist to it. Additionally it's obvious that he has an extensive amount of experience and talent as a performer as there are several keyboard and guitar solos throughout. I love these little parts because it reminds listeners that electronic music is MUSIC to the core, which is sometimes hard to see in a market full of untrained musicians being full time professional producers.

But while much of this production quality is pristine, the live instrumental elements are very welcome additions, and there are some interesting ideas thrown in, somehow the body of work as a whole manages to be overall uninteresting. ZHU is clearly good at doing one thing and making overall small changes from song to song, which makes for an LP that almost entirely sounds the same. I can't really cherry pick any songs from GENERATIONWHY that I thought "wow this one especially is really special" because nothing stood out like that. This is often a problem producers run into with creating a body of work like this - if you want to go for a certain feeling from start to end, one has to find ways to vary it up enough to make it engaging, but GENERATIONWHY doesn't grab me that way. It felt forgettable.

However my biggest issue with ZHU's music, first and foremost, is his vocals. While there are some uncredited vocalists throughout the album, there weren't any that stood out particularly, and ZHU's own vocals take the spotlight for the vast majority of the 58 minute body of work. The problem is that his singing just isn't all that good - he attempts at adding this ghostly feeling to his songs, and while I see the intentions could work on paper, in practice there's very little character here and I'd like to take a nap any time his vocals resume. It's like taking The Weeknd and giving him a helium balloon to inhale right before stepping up to the microphone. There's little to no variety in his approach vocally, and I would have honestly preferred this album to be almost entirely instrumental with just a couple of his own vocal parts thrown in and more featured singers. I think the production here is so strong that it could stand on its own two feet, and ZHU's vocals just distract from that instead of adding to it.

My $0.02, good music to put on in the background at late night while wrapping up your day.

Edited a couple errors, wrote this kinda fast yesterday

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mr stroke

mr stroke

Member
Aomber said:
Zhu's latest work is here in the form of a 14 track EP known as GENERATIONWHY. He's been around the scene for a couple years now with notable works such as Faded and Working For It hitting the mainstream audience with a distinctly dark sound that nobody else was really bringing to the table.

It's clear that ZHU is greatly influenced by jazz music as he has spoken in the past about his jazz background - he has clearly taken the approach of combining many of those sounds with. On GENERATIONWHY, while maintaining some of that dark feeling, mostly would be better described as mellow. He reaches into familiar territory on this LP by kicking off with Cold Blooded and In The Morning while going into some slightly more energetic tone by following up with Secret Weapon and Electrify Me, the latter closely resembling some earlier works from Disclosure (almost too much so). Zhu throws in some light hearted tunes especially at the end with tracks such as Hometown Girl and Generationwhy, a welcome change of pace from that darker, grimier feeling of a substantial amount of his work, and one could argue that more or less the entire album is tropical house, just with his own twist to it. Additionally it's obvious that he has an extensive amount of experience and talent as a performer as there are several keyboard and guitar solos throughout. I love these little parts because it reminds listeners that electronic music is MUSIC to the core, which is sometimes hard to see in a market full of untrained musicians being full time professional producers.

But while much of this production quality is pristine, the live instrumental elements are very welcome additions, and there are some interesting ideas thrown in, somehow the body of work as a whole manages to be overall uninteresting. ZHU is clearly good at doing one thing and making overall small changes from song to song, which makes for an LP that almost entirely sounds the same. I can't really cherry pick any songs from GENERATIONWHY that I thought "wow this one especially is really special" because nothing stood out like that. This is often a problem producers run into with creating a body of work like this - if you want to go for a certain feeling from start to end, one has to find ways to vary it up enough to make it engaging, but GENERATIONWHY doesn't grab me that way. It felt forgettable.

However my biggest issue with ZHU's music, first and foremost, is his vocals. While there are some uncredited vocalists throughout the album, there weren't any that stood out particularly, and ZHU's own vocals take the spotlight for the vast majority of the 58 minute body of work. The problem is that his singing just isn't all that good - he attempts at adding this ghostly feeling to his songs, and while I see the intentions could work on paper, in practice there's very little character here and I'd like to take a nap any time his vocals resume. It's like taking The Weeknd and giving him a helium balloon to inhale right before stepping up to the microphone. There's little to no variety in his approach vocally, and I would have honestly preferred this album to be almost entirely instrumental with just a couple of his own vocal parts thrown in and more featured singers. I think the production here is so strong that it could stand on its own two feet, and ZHU's vocals just distract from that instead of adding to it.

My $0.02, good music to put on in the background at late night while wrapping up your day.

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I couldn't stop thinking this :eek:
 
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Mr Solo Dolo

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A week on and I'm just about recovered from Tomorrowland. Prydz vs Deadamau5, believe the hype.

Went to see Fatboy Slim on Friday as a pick me up. Such a disappointment. Ended up leaving after an hour because the place was so crowded and they obviously had to limit the sound volume because of the venue location.
 
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BLOODED_hands

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Aomber said:
Edit: Honestly, not worth sharing the song I just posted. I'll just leave this that Flume himself has acknowledged that all these guys have copied him in regards to future bass.
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I had something huge typed out but then figured it wasn't worth it. He will now just push himself further and that's what matters. Let the copycats play catch up.

That new Chainsmokers.... I do like the vocals and Alex and Drew are happily making their way to making pop music. Nothing wrong with that and they've been upfront about making their music more pop-based and less electronic-based. The beat leaves something to be desired from me but The Chainsmokers have never been known to make hard sounding beats.

I had forgotten all about Lollapalooza. Any recaps?
 
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Aomber

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BLOODED_hands said:
I had something huge typed out but then figured it wasn't worth it. He will now just push himself further and that's what matters. Let the copycats play catch up.

That new Chainsmokers.... I do like the vocals and Alex and Drew are happily making their way to making pop music. Nothing wrong with that and they've been upfront about making their music more pop-based and less electronic-based. The beat leaves something to be desired from me but The Chainsmokers have never been known to make hard sounding beats.

I had forgotten all about Lollapalooza. Any recaps?
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Definitely agree with that, something is off but I can't put my finger on it, but hey it's relatively interesting at least. One thing I did find interesting was that in their feature with Future Music, it's clear that Drew (the shorter one) does 100% of the producing. I'm not really sure what Alex's involvement is in the duo lol, you could say DJing but that doesn't require much for mainstage in 2016.

Will say I do like Drew's approach and beliefs with production
 
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BLOODED_hands

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Aomber said:
Definitely agree with that, something is off but I can't put my finger on it, but hey it's relatively interesting at least. One thing I did find interesting was that in their feature with Future Music, it's clear that Drew (the shorter one) does 100% of the producing. I'm not really sure what Alex's involvement is in the duo lol, you could say DJing but that doesn't require much for mainstage in 2016.

Will say I do like Drew's approach and beliefs with production
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Lol, Alex looks soooo lost when Drew started talking about how he mixes and produces their songs :p

Alex is probably the hypeman/emcee. Put your fucking hands up!! Y'all ready to jump Coachella? Say ayyyyy, I want some pussssay! <- shit like that :/

They both play instruments based from their live sets of DLMD. I say give them by the end of this year and they'll be making pop-pop music and less pop-edm music.

I'm surprised to hear that DLMD was first sung by Emily Warren until they lost their data :( Emily has an awesome voice.

On a hardstyle note - did anybody listen to Coone's Less Is More album yet? Heard middling things about it but that's from the hardcore fans of hardstyle >_>
 
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