As you clubbing around Tokyo, chances are you’ll hear an assortment of upfront house music or EDM. However, there’s another scene which embraces more melodic sounds – offering an attractive contrast to bass-heavy genres. Yasutaka Nakata (producer for Perfume and Kiyaripamiyupamiyu), under his personal project CAPSULE, creates heavy electro-house music inspired by Japanese culture as […]
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Dance music despite predictions of its demise is alive and kicking. At an EDM festival held recently, raver ravers who’d cut their teeth in illegal warehouse parties mixed freely with kids who revelled in its endless serotonin rush. Will this trend endure, or will musical tastes shift and eventually render EDM less prominent than it
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EDM (Electronic Dance Music) can be likened to fast food: It produces an instantaneous rush of happiness that wears off quickly but lacks the durability of real dance music. Many argue that EDM produced on computers does not count as real music and its creators cannot be considered real musicians. This argument is flawed. Early
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Music industry players have taken steps to destigmatize mental health issues. Many electronic and dance musicians – including Kaskade, Junior Sanchez, Silentmode, How Mental, and Tom Middleton – have spoken openly about their own experiences with depression. This study utilized a multi-method approach to investigate the effects of music-based interventions on depression and its symptoms
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As opposed to traditional song structures, most electronic music is made by layering individual sounds together. Although some producers may come from musical backgrounds (i.e. playing piano or guitar), others use software instead and create tracks without ever touching physical instruments at all. House, techno and drum and bass music pioneers like Juan Atkins and
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In the 1920s, instruments like the Theremin were first invented – producing its unique, haunting tone by oscillating electrical signals. Magnetic audio tape allowed musicians to edit sounds together into musique concrete pieces. Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach is widely considered to be one of the first pure electronic compositions. Synth pop reached its pinnacle during
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EDM (Electronic Dance Music) is an umbrella term describing genres like drum & bass and house, often being misunderstood as such by listeners. Unfortunately, EDM has also become used as a marketing term for artists such as Bonobo and Four Tet to categorize into this genre, leading to some listeners being misled into believing these
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The wobble bass is an iconic sound in electronic music. This extended bass note treated with various effects produces a vibrating, lurching feel. Basic LFO modulation technique uses an LFO to manipulate key sound shaping parameters – such as filter cutoff – that impact sound quality and volume/saturation of audio files. You could also use
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Like every musical scene – such as mods, skinheads or rockers – trap is a lifestyle with its own set of rules and behaviors. Its vocal delivery and lingo provide powerful expressions of identity and struggle. EDM trap music is an upbeat fusion subgenre of electronic dance music that marries vocal styles found in Southern
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Ambient music was once just an afterthought in electronic dance music; but during the 1990s, ambient artists like Aphex Twin, William Basinski, and Pinkcourtesyphone transformed its genre by crafting disintegrated tape loops with no clear tonal center or creating layers of noise without clear tonal patterns. Today’s ambient music can draw on various techniques like
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