Riding A Popular Bandwagon in Dance Music Scene (Blog 5, Week 6, CIU 110)

Last week I was looking through my Facebook newsfeed and I found a news from billboard website and when I look into it I found "I wanted to do something different,” Carnage echoes in the email, “so why not bring Psy-Trance to the Main Stage!”. That's a guy caught for using pirated plugin on his computer and throwing money in his DJ gig. I wish those kind of guys don't get into Psy-Trance music scene.

As I remembered around 2012 there’s a term called EDM came up with the abbreviation of “Electronic Dance Music” When the term came up it’s describe for many genres of dance music such as Dubstep, Electro House, Trance, Progressive House, Techno etc…… After a year or two that term EDM doesn’t cover al electronic dance music. It means the drop-heavy, stadium-filling, chart-topping, massively commercial main stage sounds that conquered over America. Most of the EDM artists will play at the festivals like EDC, Ultra, Vegas pool parties and flying cakes. Only Electro/Bigroom and Progressive House producers can play in those events and other genres never make it.

When EDM become really popular it also changed some artists. Example like Tiesto who used to make good Trance tracks with good melodies stop doing Trance and start putting his name on every popular EDM tracks like (Tiesto Edit) and run a label for the genre whatever popular at moment. He ran a label called Musical Freedom in 2009 and releases EDM BigRoom and Progressive House tracks. In 2015 Deep House genre become popular so now Tiesto announce a record label that will release and promote Deep House tracks. These days even a big Dutch record label like Armada release the mainstream popular cheesy music. This might be my personal point of view but I still think that’s true. So now the term EDM has become an entire generation’s pop music. When we ask today’s average fan the question what kind of music you are into or enjoy they don’t really know they will just say a word EDM and it give them a hard time to name three sub-genres of EDM they’re into.

There’s one of the EDM fan commenting “Nice song, but where’ the drop”. They don’t really care about music what they want is a big drop with lots of bass, gritty synths and white noise on the sound. Now after a few years people are boring to listen same stuffs Electro/Bigroom and Progressive House. So most of the artists that made Electro/Bigroom starting to make other sub-genres of dance music and ruined the scene (in my opinion).

What I’ve seen in a few years is they are trying to get in Trap, HardStyle and Psy-Trance scene. Because those music were accepted by many listeners and able to play on mainstages nowadays. But it will not be the dead of electronic dance music scene. There are many artist start rejecting the hunt for the hardest drops, slowly developing a fresh underground music scene. And these small underground scenes are rapidly gaining fans who are fed up with the EDM hype.

But what I think is this whole thing will repeat itself again but the music genres and styles will not be gone but this next EDM I wonder what they will called it next time.

And there’s a music video that describe what most of the EDM DJ/electronic music producers done these days. It’s really fun and I like it. Hope you all enjoy.