Favourite dance music!!

Haha, I've met Devvo before.

Not sure if you are taking the piss or not, I was wondering whether to include dubstep or not. Part of the wider contemporary scene but doesn't really stem from it scene or style-wise.

As with anything else a lot of shit (wom wom LFO abuse) but some quality stuff - Jamie Vex'd, Kuedo, Untold (Sweat, Kingdom...none of his tracks sound similar), the four tet/burial collaboration, james blake, eprom, joy orbison, slugabed (check out 'one of us' with a good system the bass is lovely. Its on youtube but will be sub par quality...), shackleton and so on.

True, eurobeat stuff just doesn't gel with me.

some good artists there, Renegade Soundwaves remix of Tubeway army are friends electric is quality. 808 State, Pacific is gotta be the best - I can't mention them without mentioning A Guy Called Gerald though.

I can't view youtube atm, but I take it that tune isn't minimal as in the dance genre ;-)

I think I get what you are saying, but I see it this way - interpreting, rather than encompassing. The sheer variety layered on a small selection of basic rhyths in each genre of house is what makes it exciting, so many different feelings coaxed out of a limited framework. After all being limited often helps innovation and creativity. What I do dislike is people using the same sounds over and over, like the wom wom lfo in dubstep, jazz instruments in house etc, it is annoying because especially these days with the massive plethora of free vst plugins, soft synths and so on yet people still sample a lot (though that contradicts my last sentence, but there are different reasons). I know the heritage behind it, and it can be used very creatively, but imo it is time to move on as I say there are many more options now. With computer software there are endless possibilities but mainstream dance doesn't push the limit, most likely due to commercial interests, rather than its heritage of sampling.

Talking about Orbital Belfast has to be my fav...though theres chime...halcyon..too many good tunes.

 

Don't. Dubstep is complete nasty chav crap. The only good Dubstep is the music that is mislabeled as Dubstep :thumbsup: If it wasn't so generic I'd like it but its just BWOM BWOM WOM WOM over and over. Nothing seperates it from Bassline really and thats pretty generic too.

 

Crystal Method - Cherry Twist vs nasa
http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=6yEIF-kqCC4&start1=36&video2=W2VygftZSCs&start2=196&authorName=mh

 

Lol, this.

 

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KLF Chill Out is one of the best Ambient albums of all time. Nothing like their dance stuff, but is simply too awesome for words. It's like dinosaurs w/ machine guns.

 

Damn thats all stuff after my interest in techno, right after it started to suck big balls in deep hell.

 

The Future Sound Of London -its a kind of dance music-


i love them :love2:

 

Haven't seen that film. Energy 52 - cafe del mar ..yeah that's one classic track I forgot to mention.

 

Which is what I said in the second part of the post, and then gave some examples that aren't wom wom lfo tracks. No offense but it really irritates me when people write off a whole genre because they can't be bothered looking beyond the end of their nose, its why modern popular music is in the state it is in. 90% of any genre is generic, in fact 90% of games are generic. There is a lot that separates bassline from dubstep, ie dub. Most popular dubstep tends to be a continuation of Bassline though, just rebranded as something more fresh by Ministry of Sound in order to shift more CDs, I suspect you haven't looked beyond that sort of stuff.

Check out the artists I mentioned earlier, but more specifically:

Burial & Four Tet - Wolf Cub
Jamie Vex'd - Radiant Industry
Juedo - Joy Construction

You might not like these as there is heavy bass, but they use it excellently:

Slugabed - One of Us
Untold - Kingdom (this was one of the early tracks that influenced the whole wom wom thing, but its a completely different beast, far more dubbier)

then contrast that one to this, very versatile guy is Untold:

Untold - Sweat

They're all on youtube, so give them a listen and your opinions might be a bit more valid. I didn't like dubstep at all to begin with for the same reasons as you, but I did some research and came across the 10%.

 

That's actually pretty reminiscent of much, much older techstep stuff like Metalheadz. Not bad but as with much of that ilk I find I get bored pretty quickly, it's too minimal and repetitive for extended listening. That goes for most of the music in this thread, actually - lots of four on the floor, tedium to my ears.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3dFakcw5Cg&feature=related

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I'll have to check them out, never been in to jungle/DnB much but as my tastes are probably the opposite to yours I may dig it. At least partly opposite, I'm not always in the mood for minimal/repetitive but it has its place.

 

I know , they are considered some of the "Gayest" euro dance. But I must point out, that both of them are straight. But anyway Modern Talking are at times some thing I can crazy about listening to, since their remixes which came out in the 1990´s just fits into the Euro dance genre. And as myfishbone, pointed out. Then what he meant by dance music, was the genre known as eurodance. Which later on got fused together with trance later on, and became eurotrance. But to be perfectly honest, then both genres derived from house, eurodance was just the more softer and poppier music, where trance was "harder". But I can still enjoy both genres. But if you need to differentiate between the two now a days, you need to split them up, by compilations. Since, when I was a "child" there Abosulute "lets dance" (which later on became abosulute dance) was the dancy compilation you went for, absolute music, was the more non dancy pop and rock music (and some times other kinds of genres) was what you went for. But if you wanted pure and unadulterated trance, then you want Trance Master, which a friend whom I still have contact with introduced to me.

And at the same time, the eurodance had its rave, there I still remember an awesome song by a Swedish group named One More Time coming out with a nice song named Highland

heck I even remember that One More Time performed in a Danish show named Eleva2eren on TV2. Yes I know Blackmores Night has covered the song, but the song is written and originally performed by One More Time. Strangely enough I feel there is some "Safety Dance" over the cover.
Anyway, whether the threads starter, meant dance music, as in Eurodance, or more in what people like to dance to. Then I am not trying to mess with peoples ideas, of what their favourite dance music. Cause there was even a competing dance/electronic music compilation named Turn Up The Bass/Base, which was an alternative I also remember from back in the 90´s which had some music too. And that compilation also had other genres too on it, and not just eurodance.