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.

                                                                              

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.

Complextro - What is it and why it could be the death of Dubstep.

Complextro is defined as a Sub-Genre of Electro House,   It has the same 4/4 beat, it's usually played around the same BPM about 128 - 132.  The term itself was started by Porter Robinson, but producers such as Wolfgang Gartner were producing Complextro tracks way before Porter came around.  Complextro tracks will consist of elements from 3 different genres (Dubstep, Glitch and Electro House).  Complextro is said to be one of the most difficult genres to produce due to the wide range of varying synths that are used.  You will hear the modern elements of Dubstep such as those Modulated bass synths, Modern talking, Saw synths  etc.  as well as very glitchy sounding synths.  While dubstep still has a somewhat large following even though it is very mainstream now, dubstep lacks one thing, Its not very danceable when compared to House music.  So Complextro  takes all those filthy nasty bass synths that you love from dubstep and it adds the 4/4 danceable beat structure found in House music, its truly the best of both worlds.  Some producers that are big in Complextro include DallasK,  James Egbert, Feed Me, Skrillex, Knife Party, Mord Fustang.

    

And heres Mord Fustang, he's still complextro but he's more melodic, not quite as filthy, he uses more "One-up mushrooms" in his tracks.

        

Moombahcore..... Now we're just making up shit.

It started with Moombahton (House + Reggaeton), but then they started adding dubstep synths such as modulated bass, modern talking etc... and they are calling it Moombahcore. This is by far the most unrecognized genre, as even beatport just puts all Moombahcore tracks in the "Electro House" section.  I remember alot of people just referring to this as 110 Dubstep, since its usually played around 110 - 115 BPM,  but IMO I think this genre is more similar to Complextro  just slowed down to about 110 BPM.   Dillon Francis, Nick Thayer, Skrillex and Knife Party all have several Moombahcore productions.

Feed Me's epic new track

Last sat I got the chance to see Feed Me perform here in atlanta, Feed Me is an Electro and Dubstep side project of well known DnB producer "Spor" whose real name is Jon Gooch.   This was my 4th time seeing Feed Me and I really wasnt sure what to expect.   The very first time I saw him was at a grimey dubstep club here in atlanta and as expected his set was mostly really heavy non-melodic dubstep, he did include some of his original electro and dubstep productions in his set , but overall the set was just way to hard.  Second time I saw him was at The Loft / Center Stage. I went in expecting another hard dubstep set, but what I heard was the complete opposite,  He started his set off with a lot of Progressive House/ Electro, He then started playing some of his harder electro tracks and his encore was his hard bass driven drumstep track "Trap Door". His set was extremely similar to a Deadmau5 set I witnessed earlier in the year like how Deadmau5 starts off progressive and builds up into more of his electro house tracks and sometime encores with his Dubstep track "Raise your weapon.   Even the LED set up of "Feed Me"s teeth had similar patterns as Deadmau5 cube which makes sense as at the time Feed Me was on Deadmau5's label "Mau5trap" I can only assume he played his set this way because this was an all ages show. Third time was at counter point music festival here in atlanta,  he started his show with some heavy dubstep and trap and i just left after 15 min to go see Steve Angellos set.

Due to the hit and miss sets ive witnessed by Feed Me, i was even hesistant to go at all, This was club Opera a more upscale club where I had no idea what he had in store.  He started off with a drum n bass track or two from his Spor days, how ever he then started playing the tracks we all love such as "Cloudburn, Strange Behaviour, Blood Red, Pink Lady, Grand Theft Ecstasy" but he also kept adding in ID tracks that I have never heard before which were really fucking good.  He must have played about 13 tracks that I have never heard but every one of them was epic. His dubstep tracks were vocal and melodic but still had that nasty bass drop, he played one Trap track and even though it was  a little too crunk for my taste I was actually ok with it,  But I also noticed something new he's doing with some of these ID tracks. The intro will be a very melodic chill arrangement of progressive synth notes such as you would typically hear Deadmau5 do, but then it builds up and drops into a hard electro/ complextro style drop.

I would have to say his set was about 85% Hard electro / complextro and then about equal amounts of dubstep and drumstep, with maybe just one or two trap tracks and DnB tracks.  However his encore was one of the sickest tracks I have ever heard.  Before he played it he brought the music to a stop and got on the mic and said something about how this next track represents everything he has been trying to do in his carrer.  The track started with that beautiful arrangement of progressive synth notes,  then this rumbling bassy build up comes in and then the drop, the drop can pretty much only be defined as Big Room Electro, this goes on for a few minutes and then he changes the beat structure to a Halftime Dubstep beat out of no where and blows the crowd away with a short filthy dubstep section, finally the track  changes one more time, i believe he changes it in the end to drumstep.

So here it is from his most recently released LP "Calamari Tuesdays" under his own label (Sotto Voce) one of the most epic tracks I have ever heard "Lonely Mountain".

   

Whose ready to Rock It right now????

Drum n Bass is probably one of my least favorite genres, its just too fast to dance too at about 160 to 180 BPM,  it is played in a 4/4 beat structure like house and trance, how ever its unstraightened like breakbeats, which means that the kick drum doesn't have to hit on the qtr note.  For example House music would go as follows  Kick....Kick....Kick....Kick.... with a kick on every qtr note ,  where Breaks and DnB might look something like this Kick.Kick......Snare.Kick..... , and as the name might imply DnB consists of heavy bass lines.  The track above is "Rock It" by Subfocus,  which samples Daft Punks -" Robot Rock".