What's your Favourite EDM genre?
 

Hey, this is my first post, just want to find out what is your favourate EDM genre

trance for the WIN

For sure Trance is my fave Category of the whole EDM :bringit:

Drum N' Bass ftw.

I chgose all of the options except drum n bass and chill out

Drum N' Bass....duhh

Industrial
Or Aggrotech
Psytrance perhaps
Speedcore.

I voted House, 'cause it's the closest to electro. My real favorites are

Electro(-house)
Breakbeat
Breakcore

I have to say I generally like trance and ambient music the most as a whole
but daft punk is the source of a lot of my favorite music, and they are pretty much house music gods

Happy Hardcore

Oh god no. I have a neighbour who listens to this incessantly. It drives me absolutely mental.

definitely breakbeats...

top artists are
ILS, Adam Freeland, Evil Nine

i'll go with trance and house music

The guy who posted this does'nt seem to be coming back. A bit academic posting really.

Breakbeat FFS, I am wondering if the originator of this thread is from the US cause generally I have found that they know little about breaks. Maybe thats why they left it out of the poll

What sort of house, Prog, Tech, Hard, Minimal. I hate hard house, most of the other house genres are okay though

i'm a sucker for electro/house, not gonna lie

i'm not as bad as ed banger groupies, but darn close

I prefer Techno

I go through phases, used to be really into my EBM, then I started getting into gabber, hardcore, speedcore, and old skool, now I've been listening to loads of chill out

Happy hardcore, gabber or any hardcore of the last decade actually IS the pounding monotone of the forthcoming apocalypse to anyone with any sort of musical taste. Force-drip me all the MD, speed and ket (hell, throw some ****ing acid in there) you want but it would still just be mindless pillhead bollocks. One entire year of being awoken at 7.30 on the dot, by a 'hardcore til I die' MORNING PERSON flatmate was enough for me thankyou very ****ing much. keep it old skool ****s. oops I ranted.
by means of demonstration...

1992, golden era gurnfest, before free-parties were made illegal in this country. curtains, better drugs (in their minds these people are dancing like Michael Jackson) and loose fitting clothes


Hixxy, one of the main offenders of nu-hardcore and chav-idol. Note the cheesy piano and vocal, this is what they all sound like without exception... Same 'euphoric' drop, vomit-inducing lyrics (invariably rhyming 'high' with 'sky' or something), annoying 170bpm rhythm thatis **** for dancing (?)


Let's not forget the lame hardcore scratching, which long-since braindead ravers will insist is what makes a good DJ. WANKERS.
:soapbox:

what i LIKE, i can't be bothered to list but psytrance is grabbing me still - progressive, layered, great to dance to, psychedelic and euphoric without being patronising toss. check out Infected Mushoom for starters innit. It's the son of acid house

I agree, when it comes to EDM hard anything is pretty crap.

whatever, i like gabber, speedcore is terrifying though

Just to say: I've only ever heard the phrase EDM here, so i've spent most of the while since i've been back confused as to what it is.

To answer the q, ambient or chillout.

techno or house for me

chillout has percussion, ambient can't. neither hallucinogen nor shpongle are ambient

Ambient would generally seem to be without percussion but then a band like Sigur Ros comes along that straddles both labels. If we are approaching asthetics from separarte genres then your description is accurate, however if we approach it from a solely electronic medium then the description is blurred. Ambient music has it's emphasis on a serene aural soundscape but that does'nt mean that it is always devoid of percussion.

This track is ambient but not neccessarily chillout. The bass line does not lend itself to chillout as well.

Since apparently no one answered this, EDM = Electronic Dance Music.

I don't think I've ever really heard that chillout can have percussion, but ambient can't. This is more or less the case, but not really a definition of either genre. From what I've seen chillout is just a catchall term for all downbeat electronic music, while ambient isn't necessarily just electronic music (also, I suppose it would fall under the chillout category). They're basically the same thing, regardless. Also, Hallucinogen and Shpongle are Psytrance, I believe, but I don't listen to either.

I voted House & Techno. I can't really stand any Trance made since the early Frankfurt days (Eye-Q, Harthouse, etc.), and even that can get pretty grating. Chillout and ambient I like, but not really as much as I do House & Techno, and honestly at this point they barely even count as EDM, because when was the last time anyone even saw a chillout room in a club? I've never even been into a club with one, for me the idea of a chillout room is like one of those anecdotes that your parents always tell you about life before color TV or how they had to walk to school ten miles in the snow, uphill both ways.

I've never really gotten into DnB, and I like some Progressive House DJs, but not enough to pick it as a favorite.

Yeah i bothered to look it up in the end :D

House is where its at. I also am particular to left-house, progressive, and techno. There is just something about that upbeat deep bass that really makes you feel incredible. It makes you feel like you wanna forget where you are and who you are and just dance nonstop. I also can also enjoy it without dancing... although I always end up noding my head up and down like a jackass. I am particularly enamored with Daft Punk, Boys Noize, Paul Van Dyk, Basement Jaxx, among others. Boys Noize tends to deliever EXACTLY what I want to hear from someone in the club, something crunchy that makes me go crazy. Whereas Daft Punk I feel a lot more, sit down and appreciate everything that went into this.

I think trance is my favorite, followed by house.

I voted house cause I guess it was the closest, but I like;
-Electro house
-Fidget House
-Dirty/filthy Electro

I roll with house, trance, eurodance, and synthpop as my favorites.

Italo Disco/Euro Disco/New Wave was the best dance genre ever!!

I couldn't say. It all depends on my mood really.

For me it's all about chillout and psytrance. Though I have been enjoying me some electro-house lately. I never really got into hardcore or gabber or a lot of types of electronic music really, I'm way more into psychedelic and experimental electronic stuff.

Techno, though I pretty much have no idea how to define most EDM.

I've been digging Dubstep and Drum & Bass lately.

I love Balearic Chillout- Afterlife, Chris Coco and Jose Padilla etc but then I do love Funky House when I'm in the mood but there are only great tracks and not outstanding artists.

Drum N Bass is one of my favourite genres but again the lack of pure quality albums limits the genre. You hear the odd outstanding track but rarely a full album. Calyx and Teebee released Anatomy a couple of years back which was decent Drum N Bass and the master LTJ Bukem has some great tracks out there but I haven't heard a top quality DnB album for a long while.

Danny Byrd's 'Weird Science' album is solid enough but very commercial too.

I would kill for a decent Breakbeat album and the only team that float my boat these days (apart from Prodigy) are Stanton Warriors and they have been quite lately.

I hear ya on all that.
Best you'll get most of the time are albums that are actually just DJ mixes from the artist.
That's typical with Drum & Bass and Breaks though, considering the market it's aimed at. I personally don't really mind not having albums of either genre. Having a catalog of bangin' singles from the artist is just as good.

It's taking me awhile to get used to finding music by the track, vice the album. But that seems to be how most of the best electronic tracks are released, so I'm ok with it.

For awhile it was just the opposite for me! That's probably why I rarely scrobble whole albums. I tend to just go by song.

Although the upside to electronic music is that there a lot of free download sites dedicated to it so finding brand, brand new music is quite easy. A lot of the sites like Beatport and Trackitdown have a good portion, but not everything.