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infinity2005
Apr 12, 2005
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Muffin Loaf posted:

So I have a conundrum. I've immensely enjoyed the bits of amateur DJing I've done, and I want to play all the EDM songs I love in front of crowds of people (at college). However, I think roughly 98% of the music I download/youtube/otherwise investigate is crap. I need to build up a decent library of tracks I really like, but it's hard at this rate. I get some huge anthology or what have you, and only 3 or 4 songs will stick out from hundreds. I have this sneaking suspicion that I'm just not looking in the right places.

I'm mostly into genres starting with "hard-", mainly hard trance. Some of my favorite tracks I've found are Stay Where You Are by Batch, Bangin' by Vandall, and Make Me Shake by Ananda Shake. As you can gather if you're familiar with those songs, I like big climaxes, a relatively abrasive sound palette, and I'm not big on "real" vocals (ie verses, choruses, etc. Samples are fine good.) A few more artists I've heard and liked are DJ Kubrick, Technikal, Arome, Darude.

So, what big artists/tracks should I make sure to hear in the areas of hard trance, hardstyle, goa trance, et al?

Hard trance: Dark by Design, Phil York, Scot Project, Yoji, Alex Kidd, Lucas Antolini. Hardstyle the obvious ones are Headhunterz, Showtek, Technoboy and the labels Scantraxx, Dance Pollution, Dutch Master Works, Fusion. Personally my favourite hardstyle track is Builder - Her Voice, has a great breakdown check that out.

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infinity2005
Apr 12, 2005
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Its eurodance.

infinity2005
Apr 12, 2005
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Pendulum is widely considered to be crap and its also nothing like DJ Marky. I'd suggest more liquid dnb such as High Contrast and everything on the label Hospital Records, also Good Looking Records and Spearhead Records and all the artists on those.

infinity2005
Apr 12, 2005
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Judas Priest Friday posted:

I've been a long time fan of synthpop and a wide variety of music from the 80s, but yesterday a friend introduced me to the track "Another Life" by Kano. I loved the hell out of it, but I have no idea where to get started with getting into/finding more good Italo-Disco stuff. Recommendations?

http://www.robotdj.net/

Check out the mixes by Flemming Dalum particularly.

infinity2005
Apr 12, 2005
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1mil Billy Mitchell posted:

A friend asked me about a recommendation and I've been thinking about it for a bit but I'm not sure where to go here. He asked me where he could branch out from by giving me Orbital - Halycon + On + On.

I'm not entirely certain where to go - The Orb, early Aphex Twin, Seefeel, System 7, Global Communication, Biosphere? I guess basically ambient techno, but I can't really find the middle ground between really ambient techno and the sort-of ambient techno with a hard 4/4 and rather catch.

Maybe atmospheric dnb such as LTJ Bukem? Different genre but i get the same kind of feelings from Halycon as Atlantis, and maybe some of Goldie's stuff from the same period. Or prehaps some 90s Underworld tracks would fit the bill. This kind of trance gives me the same kind of feeling too although the synths sound dated now, the breakdowns in some of these tracks are very atmospheric:

Velocity - Lust (Rabbit in the Moon Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X2Q9HuT--Q

Got acid parts, breakbeat part, orchestral breakdown at 5:50. Personally i think it's amazing but maybe it's too different of a style that he wouldn't like.

infinity2005
Apr 12, 2005
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Avril Lavigne did a German version of her seminal masterpiece 'Girlfriend'.

infinity2005
Apr 12, 2005
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Amazon Review posted:

Anyone know any good 90s rave or jungle comps?

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Strictly-Underground-Compilation-II/release/185941

And everything in the related and on this label. Rave AND proto-jungle for ya.

infinity2005
Apr 12, 2005
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PoisonedV posted:

The other day on a whim I picked up some Happy Hardcore compilation. My days of listening to dance music are long over but this is pretty fun. What are some good compilation albums or even normal albums of really danceable, 'hard-hitting' music? (not that it needs to be just gabber/hardstyle/rave/whatever. it could be electro or house or whatever.) Preferably not stuff that all sounds pretty much the exact same... in terms of dance music anyway.

edit:
vvvvv Actually Bonkers 13 is the compilation I was referring to that got me in this bent in the first place. I'll check out the other one though.

Hardcore Underground Vol 1 to 4 are the best of it's kind, with a lot of variation between each mix on the compilations.

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infinity2005
Apr 12, 2005
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alcoholiday posted:

Where I can find more "dark" sounding Italo disco like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsGsXLjEG-o?

I love the upbeat pop Ryan Paris/Ken Laszlo/Gary Low type stuff, but I am really fascinated by sounds more akin to this track. Johnny Jewel's projects (Chromatics [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0mxXrHowHQ], Desire [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K7rmxjk5RQ]) are a pretty good example. The snare sound with that slight delay/reverb is part of it, I guess, but also slower tempos, palm muted guitar, vintage analog synth sounds with reverb.

Also to add to Beeswax's great post above, I would also rec this awesome new group, Postiljonen, if you like that sort of stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P344cfTQpU

Hey, if you go on discogs.com and check the community Italo-disco subforum there's people sharing their top 10 lists and things like that, and generally peoples tastes are into the darker stuff. Just so there's some actual content in my post here's maybe 2 of the most popular darker releases:

Fockewulf 190 - Gitano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kto_Yi0Bec4 & Body Heat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t42uzzrCgow

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