Careful, its a Trap.

Electronic Trap which is usually just referred to as Trvp is a newer genre of music, it was inspired by the dirty south hip hop type of Trap which was made popular by T.I. , Gucci Mane and Young Jeezy. Its is played at around 130 to 175 BPM and it shares the same 2/4 (half-time) beat structure as dubstep and most hip hop tracks. Other similarities between the older dirty south hip hop trap and this newer electronic trap include the 808 kick drum,  snare drum rolls, hi hat rolls and chopped vocal samples usually saying something like "What  What  What".  This electronic Trap is being referred to as the new Dubstep, and i can definately see that happening here in Atlanta. Alot of people got into electronic music a couple years ago through dubstep, but dubstep was really just a fad and it has faded out as of recently, so it seems like all those people have now jumped on the Trap bandwagon.  There is alot of very good Trap tracks out there and alot of Trap remixes as well, such as the one above of Awolnation - Sail,  but when i go to the club and the DJ plays Trap, for some reason he tends to leave out all the melodic Trap music and just ends up playing an hour long set of ghetto crunk Trap.  There was even a case last year in Chicago where Trap producers Flosstradamus were banned from performing their set as police said last time they almost caused a riot.

Dirty Dutch Explained

Dirty Dutch House is a subgenre of Electro House.   While Electro House has more focus on electro bass lead synths and basslines, Dirty Dutch shows more emphasis on High pitched lead synths rather than bass synths. You can see what im talking about at 2.14 in the above video.  This track is from the king of dirty dutch "Chuckie", while "Afrojack" and "Sidney Samson" are huge names in the Dirty Dutch scene, i still think Chuckie is the king of this genre, as he has managed to keep it underground. Dirty Dutch will always be one of my favorite genres.

What is Reverse Bass?

Reverse Bass is a synth usually found in the Hardstyle genre of music, you can hear it on the offbeat of most Hardstyle tracks.  Reverse Bass is also one of the main elements of Melbourne Bounce as heard in the track above at 0.38 by Will Sparks.

Another Big Room Progressive Banger

This is my favorite genre in EDM, This is Big Room Progressive House.  I know that some people aren't going to like the autotune on a couple sections of the chorus, but I could see this track being a festival banger. Tracks like this are the reason for my blog,  I am always searching beatport, youtube etc... for cool remixes and tracks that people really dont know about, and this is one of them. So here it is Cosmo - "Wayward Son", a Big Room Progressive remix of 70's Rock Hit "Carry on Wayward Son" by Kansas

Amazing remix of Daft Punks - "The Grid"

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I am actually not even sure what genre this track is, but damn its amazing. It sounds like progressive house with that banging kick drum and alot of the electronica synths from the original removed, but its too slow to be House at 102BPM. So im just going to call it electronica since thats what the original track is that was featured on the "Tron Legacy" soundtrack.  I could put this on repeat and fall asleep to this one, the video is pretty sick as well.

Introduction to DubHouse

This genre is called DubHouse, atleast thats what Ash Pournouri the owner of "At Night Management" is calling it. At Night management  is also responsible for Aviciis rise to success. Their newest edition is this duo that go by the name "Cazzette", made up of two swedes by the names of Sebastian Furrer and Alexander Bjorklund. This genre basically starts out like your normal electro house or complextro track, it carries the 4/4 beat, it uses a mixture of modulated bass,  dubstep  and electro sounding bass synths as well as the modern talking synth. What makes DubHouse different than electro house or complextro is that at some point during the track (usually the 2nd drop) the beat changes from a 4/4 beat to a 2/4 beat and their is more focus on the dubstep bass synths during this time (See @ 2.53 in the above track).

Mainstream Dubstep

I started this blog with the intentions of posting less mainstream tracks, and focusing on the 4/4 genres.  But i have to go against both those things with this track, just because the video is so sick. We have Electro House producer Don Diablo on the beats, and none other than Alex Clare and Kelis on vocals.  Don himself even helped with the production of the video.  So here it is, probably the only mainstream dubstep track im ever going to post.  Don Diablo feat. Alex Clare & Kelis - "Give it all".

     

 And if your like me and dubstep isnt your thing, then heres the banging Electro House remix by Don Diablo & CID

        

This track is the definition of Big Room Progressive House

This is my favorite track of all time,  the chilling female vocals at the beginning mixed with the perfect progressive synths that leads into this beautiful chord progression build up and finally that lead stab synth climax at 1.30 that can't be described by anything other than "Big Room".  This track is the ultimate club killer, it has vocals that almost everyone can sing along too, it has a build up that lets you know something big is about to happen, and then the climax almost forces you to put your hands up and get lost in the moment.

I have just discovered breaks

For the longest time i would turn my nose up at any music genre that was missing a 4 on the floor beat. I couldn't stand the awful non melodic underground dubstep that was being played at the clubs, and thankfully even though it looks like dubstep is finally fading away, unfortunately now it seems everyone who got into EDM through the dubstep bandwagon a couple years ago has now migrated over to this electronic trap music, which is nothing more than the chopped vocal samples, snare rolls and the 2/4 beat from dirty south hip-hop mixed with electronic synths that will make any white boy on  bath salts feel crunk.  I absolutely hate this part of the EDM scene.

Before i was even ten years old i was listening to "Alice Deejay", "Haddaway"  and other tracks from "Now thats what i call club music vol 2" due to my father playing this in the Jeep. Then when i was a teenager I would hear the mainstream tracks such as "Zombie Nation" by Kernkraft 400 or "Blue" by Eiffel 65, I believe i even heard the Prodigy and Crystal Method at this time but electronic music was very rare in the redneck town i grew up in. It wasnt until high school when i learned that my plaid shirt and jeans from TJ maxx werent exactly making me any more popular and I learned that the cool kids shopped at this store called Abercrombie and Fitch. So one day my freshman year of highschool my mom and I made the hour long drive to the closest mall, as I approached the store I could hear this kick drum beating at a 4/4 beat  from a couple stores away, then when I entered the store is when my love of electronic music took hold. "What is this? I love it" I thought to my self as the beautiful chord progressions, the epic big room build ups and that pounding kick drum at 128 BPM of Progressive House filled my ears for the first time in my life. As soon as i returned home from the store I went straight to searching for what i had just heard, this is where it all started.  I admit I did give dubstep a try and even liked it for short time, but it wasn't until I heard a big room house set by DJ LOS  in a local club here in atlanta that sealed my love of House music and that steady 4/4 beat and made me disregard anything else such as dubstep, drum n bass etc.

Just recently i have rediscovered breakbeats. Whenever i used to hear the term breaks I thought it was some sort of old school hip hop music,   not knowing that the prodigy and crystal method I heard back in my teenage years were actually breakbeats, but the Breaks of today is different. It uses these electro bass synths and heavy modulated bass and its still a 4/4 beat like house so it has that high energy dance feel to it, but the kick drum isn't hitting on every quarter note making it sound less repetitive than house music.