Why I hate EDM...

[Allanneay]

Well it's just nice we can not say it's good, I think the tempo and the vocals problem is there.

[tokenasianguy]

I hate hip-hop, it's either always about bling and bitches, or it's some guy trying to be deep and feeling sorry for himself..

So basically you don't like the shallow hip hop or the conscious hip hop...

[DJ Abide]

I don't know why but I have always been drawn towards "darker" music. It just seems more genuine. Even when I was a kid I liked my music hard. I remember the Motley Crue "Girls, Girls, Girls" vividly with a Kelly Bundy look-a-like hooker under the street light. My 5 disc CD changer in the 4th grade had AC/DC Back in Black and 4 Guns N' Roses albums (G N' R Lies, Appetite for Destruction, and Use Your Illusion 1&2). From there the whole "Seattle Grunge" thing took off and I'd relate a lot of those bands to this same concept of "Real Life" or not ALL happy-go-lucky so to say. I listened to strictly "License to Ill" for almost all of 8th grade (about 7 years after the album was released), the rap thing was taking off and in high school I was very into the mainstream hardcore rap and the "Underground" Chicago gangster rap. Senior year I developed a taste for some "Heavy" rock when Disturbed released their first album. The next few years I was all about Led Zeppelin and The Doors. Moved to AZ and was introduced to some West-Coast "Underground" (The Alkaholiks, Defari, Hiero) and really started digging for new sounds. I found some East-Coast stuff I liked (Beatnuts mostly). When I returned to Chicago I met a friend who turned me onto the whole Indie scene (Aesop Rock, Atmosphere, Mr. Lif, and more). I realized that these independent artists had a lot more heart in their music than almost anything I'd heard (with the exception of Led Zeppelin). They were passionate about their craft and toured non-stop to scrape by, most of them are still doing it 10 years later.

It's definitely not for everyone, just like my tolerance for the "Pretty" things. It's just not how the world is. It's the picture the media has painted for modern society. They are selling you what they told you to like. I dunno.

I do apologize for my blunt approach to trying to get a Hip-Hop discussion going amongst a majority of EDM fans, but at the same time I do feel some of this needs to be said to some of these bandwagon types.

[tokenasianguy]

As someone who is a 9-5 cubicle slave during the work week, I've found this to be the opposite. I enjoy DJing way more now than when I was doing it for a living, because now I'm able to go out on the weekend and play the gigs I WANT to play, not the gigs I HAVE to play. It really does put things in perspective, and I no longer have to take the stupid pop crap bullshit gigs just because I need to eat.

You must have a pretty good day job then.

My last job was awful...I constantly got thrown under the bus. Work politics is probably the single worst thing about office work.

[DJ Abide]

Another interesting thing to note is that the elite in the entertainment industry can't get enough of the raunchiest and most vulgar of entertainers. Is anyone familiar with Mickey Avalon, Andre Legacy, and Dirt Nasty? They were all the rage about 5 years ago in LA. There were cameos in shows like "Entourage" and that stupid show with Paris and Nicole. Reading about that recent "booted off the decks" situation I saw whom ever got on the decks played a remix of Goyte that was made into "Somebody that I used to fuck".

These pop stars also find their music fake and enjoy the grimier things when they are out partying.

I'm about good music from ALL GENRES. I rarely leave Steely Dan, The Eurythmics, Don Henley, Biggie, Fleetwood Mac, Q Lazzarus, Crystal Waters, and most of the earlier mentioned artists out of a set (4-5 hour every Saturday residency)

[DJ Abide]

There's room for the pretty things, but genuinely pretty things. "Last night was amazing, yada yada yada, get wasted, yada, yolo, yada" it's all the same shit reformatted or sampled based off a previous great song from history that none of these kids will ever know.

[dj subculture]

...You can't delete me for talking about a genre which started the idea of a DJ.

Actually, it was the other way around. A DJ created the idea (or more accurately the genre) of Hip-Hop.

DJing as we know it goes pre-dates hip hop.

[Era 7]

that's like...the coolest story i ever heard in my entire life. are you bored or why are you engaging in this enthraling monologue? also: did you know you can edit your previous post if you want to expand on previous posts instead of posting a new one each time?

[Woah]

If we were to believe most hip-hop, having the biggest house, the biggest pool and lots of cash created the idea of hip-hop. You're just THAT much cooler if you rap about it over an 8-bar beat and show it off in a video clip.
edit: if you really want to look gangstah mention in every sentence that your smoking 5 grams of weed every day. then your really hardcore!
LOL

[DJ Abide]

Actually, it was the other way around. A DJ created the idea (or more accurately the genre) of Hip-Hop.

DJing as we know it goes pre-dates hip hop.

Did you read that interview? At the end he was saying kind of what I'm saying here.

So you’d DJ seven nights?
Yeah. Nine until four. I was getting beat. At this point, the clubs were starting to get like they are today. Arthur was much earlier, then Ondine was later, and then Salvation was even later. It started to change at that point. We were so exclusive. One night the doorman turned away Mick Jagger. He was so proud of it. He said he’d turned away Mick Jagger and Keith Richard. So I ran down the club, ran out into the street and said ‘Mick Mick, you can come in the back door here with me. Come on.’ So he sits down; he’s steaming. Then he says, ‘Fuck this’ And walked out. Towards the end of Salvation the Beatles came in and ‘Lady Madonna’ was out and Magical Mystery Tour. I was pissed with them because I felt they were just trying to do Sergeant Pepper over again. I went up to Paul, ‘What is this stuff? Come on give me a break! It’s like Sergeant Pepper II’ They dragged me away because he was pissed. They were afraid that once I got on the turntables, I’d start talking to them. Because everyone was aware that I’d talk to you. Like Hendrix talked to people.

What stuff were you playing at Salvation?
Chambers Brothers, definitely soul music. Not a lot of rock. Mamas and Papas were long gone. I would never have used a Frank Sinatra record at Salvation, because it was a much hipper crowd at Salvation

I moved to Salvation II because Bradley thought I was getting too outrageous with what I was playing; and that I was getting too personal. He wanted straight music. So his bookkeeper came down there, got turned on to drugs and starts wearing bandanna and makes a deal with someone and that’s when we opened Salvation II. It’s now an Indian restaurant called Nirvana on Central Park. The guys who had muscled in with Bradley down at Salvation, who thought they were wise guys, when they weren’t, they find them dead out in Queens, with the ritual bullet through both sides of the temple, one through the centre of the head. Insane. So Bradley immediately runs off and joins a convent and becomes a priest. He’s still a priest, up in Connecticut.