Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Go Von Deeper

Deep House is a sub-genre of House music.  It still has that 4/4 kick, and the tempo ranges from 120 to 128 BPM but is more common in the low 120's.  Modern Deep House contains soulful vocals and has a very melodic, ambient feel to it, it also seems to share similarities to Tech-House especially in regards to the bassline.  Todays Deep House is very different from the more heavily Jazz influenced Deep House that originated in the late 80's.  I dont know a whole lot about this genre so I dont want to go any deeper (no pun intended) and give incorrect information, just check out this beautiful Deep House remix of one of my favorite 80's love songs " Wicked Games" by Chris Isaak.

                                                                     

Caution: Nu-Disco is extremely addictive!

This genre is still very new to me, I just was turned on to Nu-Disco about a week ago.   I am unsure of the BPM but it seems to be close to 125bpm and also share the same 4/4 beat structure of House music and as its name implies it takes heavy elements from Disco music. I like how it maintains a consistent fun danceable energy throughout the track without using epic buildups and big room drops like most modern mainstream House tracks.  This genre is very addictive.

                                                                              

Monday, November 4, 2013

Is Melbourne Bounce the next big thing?

Melbourne Bounce also known as Melbourne House is a subgenre of electro house. Similar to Dirty Dutch, It focuses more on high pitch synths that sound almost like a horn rather than those electro bass synths. Its also said to be similar to PsyTrance. This genre is so fun to dance to, its very upbeat  and the horn sounding synths just add even more fun to the genre. Melbourne Bounce is also known to use reverse bass alot on the offbeat after the kick to give it a distorted sound, this distorted kick is also found in the Hardstyle genre. Producers of this genre include the likes of TJR, Will Sparks and Joel Fletcher but Dutch producer Laidback Luke is also experimenting with Bounce. While this genre has been popular in its home town of Melbourne Australia for a while now, I see Melbourne Bounce being the next big thing in the states.