Volume #27: Ladies Of EDM is a recurring section where we feature the hottest girls at EDM parties or getting ready for them. If you and/or your lady friends would like to be featured here please submit photographs to edmarena@gmail.com with Ladies in the subject line. Thanks for all the previous submissions. Keep them coming!
“Trouse”, the newest trend in EDM since dubstep is beginning to take over many of my favorite DJs, and I’m not happy. It started with Tiesto, progressed to Above & Beyond, Arty, Gareth Emery, and Marcus Schossow, and now has claimed a new victim: Tritonal. Each of these DJs started with strong roots in trance. However, because of the rising popularity of EDM and the transition into mainstream, a lot of artists are beginning to make their sounds more mainstream to appeal to bigger audiences. Many of my favorites, I’ve noticed, have changed their sounds and are beginning to sound more alike instead of maintaining the individuality that made me fall in love with them in the first place. “Trouse”, if you haven’t figured out the meaning of the word, is a combination of the words “trance” and “house”. To me, trouse sounds more like a progressive house set with bits and pieces of electro and trance, which is not what I want to hear when I see my favorite trance producers. As of late, I feel there are not many true trance acts out there, as many of them are following the new trend and abandoning their old sounds. As much as I don’t want to say it, I feel like Dash Berlin is next. I’m not sure who else will be hopping on the “trend train”, but I have a feeling many trance producers are going to begin selling out. I began losing my faith in trance culture when Above & Beyond made the transition; if Armin or Markus ever go trouse, I am giving up faith in humanity.
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Ken Loi has easily become one of my favorite producers of 2012 with all of the crazy mashups he has come up with this year. Although I find that some of his tracks are hit or miss, the ones that hit, hit HARD. He has done a beautiful job at blending together this years hottest tracks to make a superb, kickass song. The way the songs are sliced and diced and then put back together is impressive. I’ll admit, yes there are artists out there that do way better jobs at actually mashing the songs up, but I think my main interest in Loi as a producer lies in the songs that he chooses to put together. The whole mash-up of “By The Way”, “Sex on Fire”, and “Somebody That I Used to Know” was beginning to get a bit old and its nice to see him mashing up songs that typical don’t get mashed up. I love the originality of his finished productions and I have decided to share 3 of my favorites:
One of my new twitter friends Nicholas Beattie, stage name “Nixxxmix” tweeted me this mix and I thought I would share it here on my blog. He is a producer and dj all the way from South Africa. The mix is electro house and features literally all the newest tracks that have just come out. Besides for a couple transitions where you can tell the beats didn’t exactly match, I thought it was a really easy mix to listen to. Everything blended well and it was a perfect mix of electro and progressive. It wasn’t too in your face and it wasn’t too mellow. I also loved the songs he chose. All great tracks by mostly underground artists, none of that mainstream bullshit. Cheers Nick, it was a great mix!
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