uh yesss, i know. I wish this style was still around, but its getting a little weak. a few weeks ago I was listening to really old Paul Oakenfold mixes back before trance stuff when he used to do balearic style, he was just straight up dropping like 50s jazz stuff in there, really dope.
Oh it is still about - just this last weekend there was a fantastic Gig with Chris Coco, Nancy Noise and Justin Robertson playing full Balearic sets. In the UK there are regular gigs in this style and its one where I feel most comfortable as its my background too
The Ibizan Balearic style was this. Alfredo did this kind of thing. 1987 and 1988 were great years there.
You find a real mixture of House styles in the Deep House section of Beatport, etc, and I like that. It probably should just be called House. You get Garagey sounding tracks and all sorts. I believe a lot of Nu Disco sounds like House to me, lol. I don't actually browse the House section on Beatport since much of it seems to be cheesey shit that I wouldn't call House music.
uh yesss, i know. I wish this style was still around, but its getting a little weak. a few weeks ago I was listening to really old Paul Oakenfold mixes back before trance stuff when he used to do balearic style, he was just straight up dropping like 50s jazz stuff in there, really dope.
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
The Ibizan Balearic style was this. Alfredo did this kind of thing. 1987 and 1988 were great years there.
You find a real mixture of House styles in the Deep House section of Beatport, etc, and I like that. It probably should just be called House. You get Garagey sounding tracks and all sorts. I believe a lot of Nu Disco sounds like House to me, lol. I don't actually browse the House section on Beatport since much of it seems to be cheesey shit that I wouldn't call House music.
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
Great post.
Look at DJ's like Doorly. He plays literally all kinds of music in every set that he does. I remember seeing him live before he hit the big time and was just blown away; because of how he uses so many different genres and ties it all together so perfectly he has definitely become someone who I would say is one of my major influences.
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
yeah thats what i was saying. I would never exclude myself from a certain genre. When a promoter asks me what kind of music I play, I really have no answer except "Dance Music", because I play whatever I want.
very true.
maybe its not use as djs who believe music is dead
maybe its not us as djs who are being shafted actually either.
maybe its just the way things are proposed to us?
for example. A promoter shouldnt ask you "What kind of music do you play" and instead as
"I have a evening
set for A,B,C.... can you take care of that for me?"
See what im saying?
I mean if you give a child a choice to play with 10 toys, he will play with them all
If you give him two, and tell him to pick their fav, youll get a specific answer, but thats because you imposed
a more detailed question.
i dont know.... i might be onto something here
and this might be the next big article i post here on DJTT like the podcasting 101 article i did already
Actually i did just submit another article about "How to get into record labels" but i havent heard back yet
sorry 031999 i cant agree with you on this one. It believe its a bit more then that
I believe its wrong if you as an artist or dj, or performer EXCLUDE YOURSELF from other genres and
try to stick to just one of them
yeah thats what i was saying. I would never exclude myself from a certain genre. When a promoter asks me what kind of music I play, I really have no answer except "Dance Music", because I play whatever I want.
I'm over genres...they don't stick around long enough anymore to even build up a decent music collection. To a certain extent its all just a recombination of previous sounds or sounds normally heard at a certain BPM and then they are used at a slower/faster BPM than traditionally.
uh yesss, i know. I wish this style was still around, but its getting a little weak. a few weeks ago I was listening to really old Paul Oakenfold mixes back before trance stuff when he used to do balearic style, he was just straight up dropping like 50s jazz stuff in there, really dope.
Oh it is still about - just this last weekend there was a fantastic Gig with Chris Coco, Nancy Noise and Justin Robertson playing full Balearic sets. In the UK there are regular gigs in this style and its one where I feel most comfortable as its my background too
The Ibizan Balearic style was this. Alfredo did this kind of thing. 1987 and 1988 were great years there.
You find a real mixture of House styles in the Deep House section of Beatport, etc, and I like that. It probably should just be called House. You get Garagey sounding tracks and all sorts. I believe a lot of Nu Disco sounds like House to me, lol. I don't actually browse the House section on Beatport since much of it seems to be cheesey shit that I wouldn't call House music.
uh yesss, i know. I wish this style was still around, but its getting a little weak. a few weeks ago I was listening to really old Paul Oakenfold mixes back before trance stuff when he used to do balearic style, he was just straight up dropping like 50s jazz stuff in there, really dope.
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
The Ibizan Balearic style was this. Alfredo did this kind of thing. 1987 and 1988 were great years there.
You find a real mixture of House styles in the Deep House section of Beatport, etc, and I like that. It probably should just be called House. You get Garagey sounding tracks and all sorts. I believe a lot of Nu Disco sounds like House to me, lol. I don't actually browse the House section on Beatport since much of it seems to be cheesey shit that I wouldn't call House music.
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
Great post.
Look at DJ's like Doorly. He plays literally all kinds of music in every set that he does. I remember seeing him live before he hit the big time and was just blown away; because of how he uses so many different genres and ties it all together so perfectly he has definitely become someone who I would say is one of my major influences.
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
Not being funny, but people know what they're told nowadays. Listen to, for example a Dusky or George Fitzgerald tune, and you HAVE to call it deep house, because no one else knows otherwise.
Stop being such chin stroking bell ends and vibe off it. Who cares what the genre is... "Do you like deep house?" "Well that depends... Do you mean like..."
It's just unnecessary confusion, and chances are, people are going to know what is considered to be deep house NOW rather than what it WAS.
yeah thats what i was saying. I would never exclude myself from a certain genre. When a promoter asks me what kind of music I play, I really have no answer except "Dance Music", because I play whatever I want.
very true.
maybe its not use as djs who believe music is dead
maybe its not us as djs who are being shafted actually either.
maybe its just the way things are proposed to us?
for example. A promoter shouldnt ask you "What kind of music do you play" and instead as
"I have a evening
set for A,B,C.... can you take care of that for me?"
See what im saying?
I mean if you give a child a choice to play with 10 toys, he will play with them all
If you give him two, and tell him to pick their fav, youll get a specific answer, but thats because you imposed
a more detailed question.
i dont know.... i might be onto something here
and this might be the next big article i post here on DJTT like the podcasting 101 article i did already
Actually i did just submit another article about "How to get into record labels" but i havent heard back yet
sorry 031999 i cant agree with you on this one. It believe its a bit more then that
I believe its wrong if you as an artist or dj, or performer EXCLUDE YOURSELF from other genres and
try to stick to just one of them
yeah thats what i was saying. I would never exclude myself from a certain genre. When a promoter asks me what kind of music I play, I really have no answer except "Dance Music", because I play whatever I want.
sorry 031999 i cant agree with you on this one. It believe its a bit more then that
I believe its wrong if you as an artist or dj, or performer EXCLUDE YOURSELF from other genres and
try to stick to just one of them
^ Naw, we have to class music like this so the punters know what to buy at the music store after seeing avicii.
I have this argument with a buddy of mine all the time about rock music. I consider most lofi garage style diy rock punk, he says it's all rock, and to a point, he's right. Deep, tech, electro, it's all house. If its got that simple 4 on the floor house groove, it's probably house, and if it isn't, call it house anyways.
My problem is when I want to find some grimey electro house, I don't want to have to dig through terrible Dutch house to find it.
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
Genres definitely have a purpose but when one starts to believe in such rigid terms, then creativity does suffer. I believe genres help beginners learn the elements of tracks. If we're talking dub step: heavy bass, 70/140BPM, heavy leads etc. It should be used as a guide for beginner producers but once you're comfortable with the elements then you can decide to believe for yourself and believe outside the box. If someone had said dutch house must always be 128 BPM, never 110 BPM, we would never have moombahton.
I have got somewhat vexed with the hijacking of genre names. First it was electro, and now deep house.
I get why it's called deep. For me the differentiation I make is that original deep house stirred definite emotions. This is my favourite original deep house tune:
Deep house these days just seems to be about how it sounds rather than how it makes you feel. And most of it today makes me feel like I'm in a bar rather than wanting to raise my hands in the air and lose myself.
I have nothing valuable to add to this because it's all silly. Humans have to categorize things, that's what we do, no sense fighting it, but it's all just silly.
yes we do categorize things. and its good in a way, helps us find things easier, but sometimes its really easy to get tunnel vision (musically). Thats why i really try not to listen to individual tracks. I'm really into only listening to mixes, and picking a track i like out of the mix. Because you might like a track, and come to find out its actually "tech house" meanwhile you have been wadding through crates of "deep House" stuff and you probably would have never found that gem. Incidentally I listened to this mix 5 times in a row yesterday, and if your a fan of this type of music (who cares what genre it is)....well just listen to the mix all the way through, and you will figure out why https://soundcloud.com/eddie-richards/for-ashok
I have nothing valuable to add to this because it's all silly. Humans have to categorize things, that's what we do, no sense fighting it, but it's all just silly.
I dont care less about genre's anymore, preview each track on the top 10 progressive charts and its nothing but Pop Music in the style of SHM, nothing progressive about it.
I haven't really taken the Beatport genres seriously for quite some time.
Nice little post you made there. I agree wholeheartedly.
But DJ Patch only plays Reggae.
But DJ Patch only plays Hip-Hop.
But DJ Patch only plays Ghetto Funk.
But DJ Patch only plays Druma and Bass.
But DJ Patch only plays Dancehall.
But DJ Patch only plays Ska.
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I dont care less about genre's anymore, preview each track on the top 10 progressive charts and its nothing but Pop Music in the style of SHM, nothing progressive about it.
i can see it now. Since the NU DICSO sound is going around, and Daft Punk did their release,
all these websites are going to start posting a "WE HAVE A NEW GENRE of songs for download!"
(beaport, zipdj, etc)
and the music will be Nu Disco............ is this something new or are they just jumping on a bandwagon of sorts where
this genre existed for quite a while now, but these websites never pushed it because they were scared it wouldn't "sell"
Oh wait i have an idea, let me put blonde dreds in my hair, and shave one side of it
then ill call myself Brit-llex and my genre of music is pop-step.
Its a perfect idea i believe
this way i get all the Britany spears followers and those who wont let go of Skrillex
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
It's perfectly ok to mix different genres, that's what most new producers do anyway. However, it's retarded to call that deep house when it barely has anything to do with it. There are tonnes of genres closer to the popular sound right now.
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
Nice little post you made there. I agree wholeheartedly.
Lyrics from Daft Punks new track, "Georgio By Moroder"
"Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and music being correct, you can do whatever you want."
The concept of a genre is the most closed minded thing ever created. If dj's can free their mind and just believe of music as Music you can literally play whatever you want in a set. Wanna drop Kayne into a dubstep set...go for it! Want to mix some Little River Band into a deep house set...Why not??!!
Genres is the reason why so many tracks and dj sets sound the same, because producers are aiming for the typical sound of that genre, instead of of letting creativity flow, and then seeing what genre their new track falls into....
THANK YOU!!! It's NU Disco for crying out loud. Sampled old disco records and added a new bass-guitar to it, its not deep house. These bandwagon sheep need to realise this!
