Dance music

[JadeDragon]

Is anyone here into genres such as house, garage, or even electro? I usually listen to dance-influenced stuff and am a HUGE fan of old-school Chicago House (Jocelyn Brown, Frankie Knuckles), disco house (Dimitri from Paris, RuPaul! :lol: ) and harder-edged stuff like Basement Jaxx and Peaches. I seldom hear of Asian artists working in the dance genre unless I count Deanna from Malaysia, but her vocals aren't as good as I'd like them to be. Can anyone suggest other Asian dance music performers who aren't Asian Dub Foundation?

[blue-kun]

Um, if BEMANI game music counts, yes. :D

Plus, there are artists on the rise in Korea that are apparently adopting the western-style (i.e. not locally digested/transformed) trance music. Can't really remember names, but I recall being stunned by their music... I honestly didn't think it could be some Korean folks doing that.

Eugene

[generaltojo]

Is anyone here into genres such as house, garage, or even electro? I usually listen to dance-influenced stuff and am a HUGE fan of old-school Chicago House (Jocelyn Brown, Frankie Knuckles), disco house (Dimitri from Paris, RuPaul! :lol: ) and harder-edged stuff like Basement Jaxx and Peaches. I seldom hear of Asian artists working in the dance genre unless I count Deanna from Malaysia, but her vocals aren't as good as I'd like them to be. Can anyone suggest other Asian dance music performers who aren't Asian Dub Foundation?

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I used to spin a lot of trance and breakbeat - since nobody like that type of music anymore because they're all stupid, I started spinning house (mostly deep, soulful, groovy stuff), which most people merely tolerate, but only if they're fucked on crantinis.

My favourite genres in order...?

Breaks
Acid Techno (a la Liberator - my fave outfit is Aponaut - download sets here (http://www.aponaut.com/audio.php).)
Big Beat (Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method)
Techno (I'ma talking real pounding Detroit Techno - Jeff Mills, Aril Brikha)
Goa Trance
House (funky, pounding, not too disco-ey)
Epic Trance (a la Ferry Corsten)
Jungle
Hardcore
Happy Hardcore

Asians in The Scene? (click on the links)

Big League Chu (http://www.bigleaguechu.com/launch.html) - tha MAN.
Kid Koala (www.kidkoala.com)
DJ Serious
DJ Baby Yu

Totally nuttin' wrong with the South Asian scene - Talvin Singh is GOD, with Tabla Beat Matrix ranking around minor demi-god, even though he is committing the sin of cultural (mis)appropriation...

[Dialectic]

Dude actually looks JUST like that in real life. You can't fuckin' see him. He's like Flash fom Kingdom Come who can see through time and dimensions.

With all that Ecstasy at the Dark Raves he frequents, he can barely stay corporeal.

[generaltojo]

Corporeality is for suckers.

[JadeDragon]

Aw, trance and breakbeat are all right, it's only when wannabe producers get their hands on those genres that they are elevated to some form of aural wanking :P . Old-school breakbeat's (subgenres: booty and ghetto tech) pretty good for shouting dirty, misogynistic lyrics (samples: face down, ass up, that's the way we like to fuck; let me hit it from the back, and I give that ass a smack), especially when you're drunk and/or high. Uh, well, that's what others tell me anyway... :oops:

The genre that I'm currently into is mash-ups, which is the layering of elements spliced from two or more songs together. It's still mostly a U.K./Europe phenomenon, and due to the legal issues involved, they're free to download and listen to, but there have been quite a few mash-up tracks that have been released or re-made commercially. Mash-ups aren't dance music per se, since they utilise all sorts of instrumentals, samples and accappellas, but the majority of them are geared for the dancefloor and have pounding beats. There are loads of crap ones out there circulating on websites and P2P networks, but there are some brilliant gems as well. It just takes time to find them.

Some more information:
http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2003/08/09/mashups_cruger/index_np.html
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/01/bootlegs/print.html
http://www.reason.com/0305/cr.jw.monster.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0%2C4273%2C4363836%2C00.html

General Tojo, Nitin Sawhney's also quite good at what he does, especially on the album Prophesy. However, it's not easy for me to determine whether what Talvin Singh and Nitin Sawhney do as cultural (mis)appropriation because they do seem to care about the music they make. Moreover, if their work does help preserve some of the traditional art forms that they utilise, then it becomes a moot point.

Just to offer anyone else a little information (with samples!) of the different genres in dance music: http://www.ishkur.com/music/# Click on the link below the graphic and a pop-up window with cute buttons and flowcharts (!) will appear. But 56kers be warned, it's HUGE and will take time to load each time you press a button. Hours of fun, y'all...

[O/T]D., that manifestation of Flash first appeared in the Crisis on Infinite Earths story-arc, if I'm not mistaken (Barry Allen, Flash II of Earth-1).[O/T]

[Le Sheng Liu]

I did a lot of raving from 1999 to a few years ago. Trance is really big here in the Bay Area. That's my favorite, plus jungle, happycore, breaks, and psytrance. I'm into hard styles that make me wanna bounce. I don't like anything progressive or industrial or heavy. I know of some Asian DJs/producers, but don't have their names off the top of my head.

I produced a documentary on the rave scene & the drug war last year if you wanna check it out: www.leshengliu.com/Generation%20E.html

[Saikadelik]

Trance/electronica is cool for kick backs, chilling out, for partying, house and funk/disco are my personal favorites!
Disco is the best dancing music!

Industrial and heavy beats are pretty cool, but only for later in the party, when everyone is all hardcore and raving like crazy....

[starscream]

I produced a documentary on the rave scene & the drug war last year if you wanna check it out: www.leshengliu.com/Generation%20E.html

just checked out your site. love the content. you do some interesting work.

[SO_ANGRY]

I listen to electronic dance music.

I'm quite a big trance fan, but not much anymore. Spinning it is boring, since you can really mix in and out of intros and outros only. I personally like progressive house and trance, and house nowadays.

As for Asian DJs......

Yoji Biomehanika
Satoshi Tomoe (i don't think Tomoe is one of his names)

My favorite DJs....

Paul Van Dyk
Marco V
Tiesto
Armin and Ferry to an extent

[cattygurl]

I like Tiesto, Jackal and Hyde.

For some really fucked up reason, DJ Z-Trip is calling to me recently. It's an I-Hate-It-So-Much-I-can't stop-listening-to-it, almost morbid thing.

Trance, Psytrance, Big Beat, and Breaks are some of my favorite genres.

I gotta admit I really do like industrial... to this day.

[Le Sheng Liu]

I like turntablism too. But for some reason, the Bay Area underground hip hop and electronic dance scenes are quite separated from each other. Very few of our raves feature turntablists. Most of our dance DJs (with the exception of a few of the house DJs) don't even skratch.

[xian]

I like turntablism too. But for some reason, the Bay Area underground hip hop and electronic dance scenes are quite separated from each other. Very few of our raves feature turntablists. Most of our dance DJs (with the exception of a few of the house DJs) don't even skratch.

Do you have the racial/class divide too? That's the way it is in Chicago and downstate IL.

[Le Sheng Liu]

Do you have the racial/class divide too? That's the way it is in Chicago and downstate IL.

Well, both underground & mainstream hip hop are listened to by youths of all ethnicities. But in the mainstream scene, the ethnic groups don't mix. For example, the rap concerts are attended by pretty much the ghetto black crowd. And many of the clubs which have hip hop nights cater their parties according to ethnicity (i.e. Asian night, Latino night, etc.). The underground scene is more open and integrated. I've been to a few youth empowerment gatherings which often feature not just DJs & MCs, but also graffiti artists and b-boy/b-girl battles. Q-bert, Jazzy Jeff, and some hot DJ chicks from Japan were on tour here in SF earlier this year. Q tore shit up with his skratching! Anyway, at these events, both the performers and audience were ethnically diverse.

The rave scene is a bit more complicated. It's always been attended by almost all white kids with some Latinos and Asians. From 1999 (the year I started) to about 2001, the Asian participation multiplied dramatically and suddenly. At least half the crowd at raves were Asians. That was also the period when electronic dance music was getting a lot of bad media publicity, our best venues were getting shut down, and the culture overall was becoming very mainstream. So there was a sense among some of the white kids that the "Asian invasion" brought down their party scene.

[SO_ANGRY]

Speaking of bay raves, anyone going to love?

[ellencho]

The rave scene is a bit more complicated. It's always been attended by almost all white kids with some Latinos and Asians. From 1999 (the year I started) to about 2001, the Asian participation multiplied dramatically and suddenly. At least half the crowd at raves were Asians. That was also the period when electronic dance music was getting a lot of bad media publicity, our best venues were getting shut down, and the culture overall was becoming very mainstream. So there was a sense among some of the white kids that the "Asian invasion" brought down their party scene.
Yeah LSL is right about that. But another thing that factors into the racial make-up of a "scene" is the type of music. I think for things like house and trance you might end up with more white folks, and with things like breaks you'll have more of a mixed crowd. In my experience with dnb (from the 90s, yes I am old) it was a pretty evenly mixed crowd, at least in NYC. Fairly even spattering of whites, blacks, latinos and a little bit less asian, but we're definitely represented in that crowd. dnb events in boston and in western MA were also pretty mixed, but definitely more white than anything else.

[SamuraiJack]

Hmmm..

I used to be into dance music back in the day, maybe not that hardcore because I didn't have any money to buy anything.

But I remember listening to house music back as early as '88.

I don't know names of the songs I used to listen to, but I remember some memorable cuts and lyrics...

House Nation
Work it to the bone
Bass, how low can you go?
Tears
It's gonna be alright
Big Fun
Break For Love
"Can't you feel it?"

I"m not sure if these are the actual song names...do these sound familiar to anyone?

Also used to be a big fan of Freestyle...

Diamond Girl
Spring Love (anything Stevie B)
Noel
Information Society
Noel

etc...

[awong]

haven;'t gone into any dance clubs in tampa, but I hear its not that popular to hip hop,