"Trap for the masses" - What is that exactly?

loving this thread, woohoo! hudmo + lunice, now that is a type of dream collab :smiley:

Hipnotikk posts here pretty frequently, but I just stumbled across this. I’m with this shit for sure. Kinda has some of the old Chicago Ghetto House flavor with the repeated vocals, not this track necessarily, but some of the others with “booty poppin” talk.

https://soundcloud.com/djhipnotikk/hipnotikk-next-trap-ft-tempz

I’m fully a convert, are there labels picking this up yet? let the thread go on deep.


All the trap you need. Saw someone posted the Flosstradamus and DJ Sliink song, might as well check out their others. And as for labels picking this stuff up, these guys are on Mad Decent.

i also made a trap/moombah/blablabla mixtape some weeks ago. if someone is interested

https://soundcloud.com/rumpelspielchen/rumpel-spielchen-exklusive-1

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This is some rather down and a dirty messed up shit…not my style, but I can understand the appeal.

Don’t have a lot of time to post labels and shit but trap has been around since the early 00’s. Maybe earlier. I think it’s just going through a renaissance right now.

I was hoping that the TRAP genre would be a lot of edits, and dubs of some raw crunk shit focusing heavily on beats, samples and personal DJ overlays. I am sad to hear a lot of straight up hip hop tracks in these mixtapes (FLOSSTRADAMUS). I feel this is not the aim of this genre. I also don’t understand DIPLO. I have never heard anything good from him. Who does he appeal to? All I hear is soulless noise.

Some of the heavy hitters in the genre right now are Baauer, Flosstradamus, and UZ. Although I am sure many of you have heard it already, Harlem Shake is a staple in the trap scene

(its also in Ed’s mix)

This is dope too

harlem shake is a monster of a track.

I’m in love with this sound right now. Both of those tracks are so sick.

My favorite rinse fm dj has been pushing this dude Freebase for the last couple of weeks. Some of it is trap some of it isn’t. Either way he has some tunes!

+1

I think trap has an identity crisis. Cause I ain’t diggin’ these bleepy techy tracks. too white. I need it crunk. The sounds are wack and the beats are weak. These tracks sound like pasty white dudes that can’t dance made them. The hats on that UZ track sound like he moused through the 32 notes on FL Studio at random.

Pfft

Showstoppa. Forgot about this one for a minute.

that is much better ^

and so is this:

keep the good tracks coming, I wanna put together a set of this

CRNKN definitely has some great tunes, and his dubstep stuff if is pretty good too! Flosstradamus is kind of the big name in trap, but I personaly don’t like him too much. Here is my current favorite track I’ve stumbled across:

Currently my favorite trap track, absolutely kills it:

https://soundcloud.com/maddecent/baauer-yaow

and a close runner up:

shit will have you saying WEE WOO WOO WEE WOO WOO WEE WOO WOO all night