after seeing the other thread about best song of 2009, i thought it’d be fun to see what DJTT’s opinions are of the best/worst trends in Dance Music were of the year. Here’s my two cents worth:
Best of 09:
Resurgence of Garage/2-Step
There has been quite a few hot 2-step tunes coming out, but the first one that comes to mind is the hugely refreshing remix of Florence + the Machine - You’ve Got The Love by The XX. Just makes me wanna drop a few rolls, bust out the glowsticks and give someone i just met a big sweaty plur hug!
Worst of 09:
Annoying Minimal DanceHall (or whatever you want to call it)
http://cowbell.fm/track/155431-french-fries-coconut
this tune, “french fries- coconut” is a perfect example of what i’m talking about… not to mention the kajillion terrible remixes of Major Lazer’s Pon De Floor.
when i first started hearing this kind of stuff it sounded cool because it was different, but at this point i just want it to die off and fade away. can’t stand hearing this garbage anymore and it’s all over the blogs, god! i don’t know how people can listen to this shit.
Best of 2009
I hate to say this, but pop-ish dance music that lends itself to GOOD remixes.
Worst of 2009
Calvin Harris comes out from under the rock he’s been hiding for a few years. And somehow ends up flooding hype machine with an endless amount of awful tracks.
Also a big +1 for Pon De Floor and anyone who disgraced them self enough to remix it.
^great pics karlos, love the funky slap-bass on that calvin harris remix - so contagious! … couldn’t agree more about that skream tune, imo skream is probably one of the most overrated punters in dubstep (second to maybe joker) - i totally don’t get the hype.
yeah there’s been a lot of crossover between the indie rock scene and dance music over the last couple years, both scenes borrowing bits and pieces from eachother - some more successfully than others mind you. but i agree, many of the best dance remixes of the past year have been of indie tunes.
haha and that calvin harris tune is god awful, the guy is pretty hit and miss these days; then again a lot of the young blog-house producers are.
its funny how everyone likes to throw crap at people who make it really big and such. happens to loads of people. tiesto, hawtin, calvin harris. i know loads of people who call david guetta a sellout for working with mainstream singers. these are people who are expanding dance music into mainstream and we should be happy for that. my sister loves guetta and because of that i have been showing her house and electro and she is starting to really like it.
dude, really? Calvin Harris worst of 2009? If its gonna be top 40’s music, I would rather listen to him any day of the week than anything mainstream america has to offer. His lyrics are riduculous, but he does produce his own tracks, and makes some sounds and sequences (hey, even if you only writes 32 bars, it beats the crap out of the 4 bars that america offers me). He even tastefully uses autotune, instead of using it like a noob.
yeah not to be superficial, but the guy looks really unhealthy in that pic… maybe he should keep the mousehead on. or eat some vegetables and vitamin supplements, like holy shit… lol
Well I was amazed by this Milton Jackson song “Open my eyes”, so that was one of my plusses. The bassline later in the track just blew me away.
I just know there’s gotta be a D&B remix of it!!!
Indie/Hipster Dance Music. You guys have stolen electro and turned i into the new trance. Fuck You! I’ve heard enough Hot Chip/Passion Pit remixes to last me forever and the another forever.
Bassline/Fidget/Electro/Dirty House: I realize most of you are too young to remember a shitty trend that swept the world back in the mid-90’s called “Hard House,” but all these genres are the exact same shit. It sucked 15 years ago and it sucks today. It’s compounded by the fact that most of the retards that play it are shitty DJ’s that think if they play banger after banger of this shit that it will soud good.
Dubstep: Don’t get me wrong I’m a fan of lots of dubstep, but the grabage that’s being put and played is beginning to enter the realm of ridiculous at this point, and it smacks of DnB a la 1999/2000. All half the songs really are is a bassline competition and people seem to be eating it up.
Best Of 2009
UK Funky/Bashment: I know some people earlier in the thread have already dissed this, but I think it’s an interesting new take on 125is beats. Part of it comes from living in Latin America where dancehall/cumbia is THE music. But another part comes from a being a long time DJ that appreciates an alternative to traditional house tempo tunes.
Last I checked, more people respect Hawtin than Tiesto. At least Hawtin pioneers a new medium of performance, and intelligently defends his stance on using them with logic and factual statements, all while being diplomatic on behalf of both sides of the argument. For the record, I’m not really a big fan of Hawtin or Tiesto, so my views on them aren’t really based on preference.
I gotta give credit where credit is due though, Tiesto has pioneered the ability to dodge the people who buy his tickets and CDs lol
Fail, that usually seems to happen when people gets to famous.
When sinden played here in Sweden I went to the edge of the stage (as I had found a wallet and I gav eit to teh club owner who stood) there, I asked if I could have a word with sinden. We spoke for maybe 2 min and he gave me a bunch of MEGA MEGA MEGA stickers
