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[Recommend on!] House/Trance music
That_Spoony_Bard
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So I just recently discovered my taste for house/trance music on XM radio (got a 3 month trial). However, I'm pretty clueless on artists and albums for this genre of music (also...what the hell is the difference between house/trance/techno/etc etc?).
Recommendations that involve combining video game music or rock bands would be great as well (listened to a remix of a Muse song recently and enjoyed it).
Recommendations that involve combining video game music or rock bands would be great as well (listened to a remix of a Muse song recently and enjoyed it).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EaE0_gQLw0
Eric Prydz, Armin van Buuren, etc. Also anything mixed by Pete Tong or Judge Jules (oh man I'm totally showing my age).
There is a series of compilation albums published in the UK called Euphoria that is quite well regarded, and the Ministry of Sound Annuals might give you some good suggestions if you have a look at the track listings.
When I think of techno, I also think of a drum kick (or equivalent), but at a faster tempo, with really loud synth leads. I don't listen to much techno, so can't help you much there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNQ2m7tDa5I
Bad Boy Bill - "Falling Anthem"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWR1cBCRnSk
Benny Benassi - "Rock N Rave"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpw2_y9eXnw
Chemical Brothers - "Saturate"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agb-oFZjuGM
Deadmau5 - "fml"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g34B-YOaC7c
Deadmau5 - "Ghosts n Stuff (nero mix)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a66Glq10vn8
Deadmasu5 - "I remember"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK1mLIeXwsQ
Other Artists: Kaskade, Savoy, Justice, Daft Punk
In case you couldn't tell, I'm partial to thick, distorted bass leads. Anyways, Wikipedia has a long list of House Artists - start there, plug some of this into Pandora or last.fm, and you'll be good to go.
A million times...ATB.
Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport
Orbital's Live at Glastonbury collection
Underworld's Everything, Everything
What I'm currently listening to:
DjKIRA's Universal (7-23-10) (Hybridized has lots of great sets, and they're all free)
Check out BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix. They feature a new DJ every week.
Scour Beatport for new music. There's a lot of terrible techno on there, but it's a good place to sample different artists.
Whenever you have questions about a genre refer to Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music.
Stay away from dubstep. It will rot your brain.
Check out Digital Imported Radio. It has all the electronica variety you could ever want.
For some good house, Deadmau5 has some nice stuff. Trance? BT, period.
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
I've also gotten really lazy about searching for music. I normally just follow a few podcasts and see what's going on. I like to follow the Resident Advisor podcast:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast.aspx
Generally, it's either house or techno, but sometimes they're throw in more ambient stuff or even dub step. This week's is pretty nice.
When it's good it's really good, but be prepared to hear stuff you won't like. By far the best mix this year was the one done by reboot.
http://www.aimnat.net/2010/03/reboot-ra-podcast-197.html
It's kind of like tech house with a bunch of Latin Rhythms. Basically, DJ's like him, Luciano, and Ricardo Villalobos are pushing that sound.
Sound Cloud is a good place to find DJ sets.
You should just look up for sets of a lot of the bigger names there for house. House really is a pretty big umbrella for music to fall under. They all have different styles, but will all fall under house.
Mark Farina
Roger Sanchez
Danny Tenaglia
Omar S
Felix Da Housecat
Sander Kleinenberg
Derrick Carter
One good thing about electronic music is that you've got DJ's doing the legwork for you and weeding out a lot of stuff. You just have to find some DJ's with similar tastes.
For techno, I follow this podcast:
http://www.cl-rec.com/podcast/
It's normally pretty good, but it's 90% European techno and pretty heavily influenced by the Berghaim scene going on in Berlin right now. I enjoy it, but am somewhat disappointed in the lack of Detroit in it. I've been slacking on it and haven't listened to it in about a month :P
The Techno DJ's I currently am loving are following:
Stacey Pullen
Joseph Capriati
Jerome Sydenham
Samuli Kemmppi
Ritchie Hawtin
Honestly, I wish I had a good Deep House or Chicago House podcast to add in to the other stuff I listen to. So, if anyone knows of some of those, post here for me, please :P
Lies! Check out Skream for some chillin' dubstep, or Mochipet for something a bit more dramatic.
Good sub required
Delerium's "Silence" and Robert Miles' "Children" are both examples of Trance you may know already.
The build up coming out of the first chorus in this song is one of my favorite pieces of music, and a great example of what Trance is about in general:
Some of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOQi1mFpTE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi17VUEcSCc
This is a little outdated, but still limeable.
Also, with dubstep, ONLY get dubstep from Hyperdub, who are the original record label behind the subgenre. They've been at it for years, and pretty much only their stuff is reliably any good. They also introduced Burial to the world, and it's his fault that the shit even got so popular. And he only has two albums to his name.
Retards on youtube adding a two step and bass sine wave to "like a g6" are not fucking dubstep.
By the way, check out Hybrid. My favorite trance besides the very obscure Japanese artist known only as Next Tribe (you cannot find much of his stuff besides one or two uploads to youtube)