Dance music is about the beat—no one denies it. Beyond the beat, electronic dance music has, over the last decade or so, also been about the BPM and the occasional mixing of genres, as when Diplo
Some of these sounds being heard in 2019 come from more recent underground scenes. Others that have existed in other niche genres for a ...
In a lot of the electronic dance music of the last decade-plus, the emphasis has been more on the beat and the bass than anything, and on...
Originating in the UK and Germany in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before devolving into self-parody, trance is by no means fashionable.
Both house and techno are four decades old now, so a big part of keeping these genres and their various offshoots fresh, is experimentation.
Take the track “Oral Couture.” An industrial bassline throbs rhythmically until a crystalline synthesizer arpeggio enters the mix. While...
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