Growing up I had tons of friends who knew what was hot! I have a few buddies still in the music biz in Los Angeles but their taste is so disparate it is hard to really find new music, and get into a scene. Even worse is that I live thousands of miles away! In COLD Chicago! (ok, i effing love ChiCity!) I work with a lot of older non-musical people and I have some great friends here but none really into house/electro/ANYTHING other than top-40 or 90’s rock. (I am still a metalhead, always will be!) So I find myself in a bit of a rut musically because sometimes it is hard to hear new stuff…
A guy from this forum who is widely respected and has been a great mentor to me said to me something along the lines of…
“Spin what you want to spin, forget whats cool. Or what the club owners want. Play the music you want and if you try hard enough you will become a success”
he said that to me probably 2 months ago. And now this wed i have an interview for a residency. LB is my boy.
Right on dude. I mean if ya want do it like this. Play top 100 then throw in some of your favorite songs along the way.
Like i listen to almost everything except country. But thats besides the point. If ya ever need any help on EDM i can export my library as a list to show ya what i have.
Also always have one favorite you keep tucked away and dont play that much unless its an emergency.
Welcome to DJTT this is an awsome site to meet like minded folks. I have the same issue as you, I dont have many friends that listen to EDM anymore, I guse they grew out of it and only listen to country and top 40 and crap rock from the 90s and 00s, God shot me if i become one of these musical retards.
The best suggestion i ca give u and this has worked well for me is to go onto sites like itunes, sites that list links to podcasts and find edm podcasts, Deeper shades of house is my fav lars berneroth rocks the house and he includeds track listings which u can use to find new tracks. also, theres another site I just am in love with at the moment called, themixingbowl.com and it is a torrent site for Dj mixes mostly stuff thats from radio 1 or bbc and kiss fm. also tons of bootleg djs sets (i.e. soundboard recordings) here u can find tons of great stuff and the community is all about putting up track listings. Its not a trandional torrent site like the pirates bay so u wont find pirated music or anything like that. Other then that I dont know, I feel ur pain though LOL, sux to get old LOL im only 30 but u know. hope this helps.
P.S. Also documentarys are a great place to learn about new music scenes stuff u wouldnt normally hear about. I found this one great doc called Notes on Breakcore which turned me onto breakcore. I also found a doc on you tube about dubstep. U could you tube stuff alll day long and find new and intresting stuff on line that will point u in the right direction.
There’s currently a pretty big scenario like that happening in New York at the moment.
I’m in college, but since I was in elementary school, I have always had a love for house and dance music. I had cousins who were a lot older than me when I was younger that introduced me into the genres. I’d always witness them head out to clubs with their friends, and I thought it was just the coolest thing.
Now that I’m at the age where I start going out and hitting my own spots, I’ve started to notice that house music is becoming a little bit too trendy for my liking.
I went from being one of the only kids I knew that was really into EDM to being one of many college kids looking to delve into the scene.
Even sub-genre’s like Dubstep and Electro are getting to be huge around here, and I’m running into people at dubstep shows that I would NEVER think I would see there.
I was really into Dubstep and really liked going to shows, but now you see a lot more dick-ish people attending these shows, tainting the awesome crowds that dubstep used to have in New York. College kids seemed to delve into the genre as a whole for the wrong reasons, ie. using club venues as an excuse to take pills - which bothers me a lot.
So basically, what I’m trying to say is, genre’s can attract different people when you least expect it. If you like spinning french filter disco house, or hardstyle, it doesn’t matter how crazy it is. If you find a way to make it work, you will be able to find yourself a niche in whatever it is you like. If you enjoy it, chances are there are thousands of people nearby that will like it too.
i thought there was a thriving house scene in chicago! i mean what a history of music that city has!
dust traxx
cajual records
some house electro ish labels that constantly throw events in chicago. might not be easy to find but im sure your will find your scene and audience if you dig hard enough.
Im sorry but everything u said here made me pretty happy. Its good people are getting more into EDM and house for that matter. Though house has been big for years off and on.
And this this has been going on for more then a decade now, This is not anything new.
I said MORE then a decade. However I dont really think EDMs been around for 40 years??? that would place it around 1970 that EDM started. I think the basement jax were like late 70s…