Ayo. I know there's a ton of people with interest in the various genres of electronic music here on Team Liquid and was hoping someone could help me out. There's always been some music of the type that I've dug but have never tried to reach deeper and find a bunch of it. Listening to some of my sister's stuff, I've wanted to change that!

As a complete newbie, the several billion subgenres and such I always hear about are terrifying. As such, I'm hoping some of y'all could help me out with finding stuff similar to this:

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And not things like these:

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Thanks a ton for any help you can give - very appreciated. Cheers!

Solarsail

United Kingdom538 Posts

March 30 2013 23:01 GMT

I don't know anything about genres. I listened to your examples it looks like melodic, no vocals and not too dark.

So I'll just link a bunch of different stuff hopefully you like one.

POiNTx

Belgium309 Posts

March 30 2013 23:07 GMT

Check some of Tiësto's stuff out. He has a free weekly podcast.

The music genre you are looking for is EDM (Electronic Dance Music).

Bibbit

Canada5377 Posts

March 30 2013 23:26 GMT

On March 31 2013 08:07 POiNTx wrote:
Check some of Tiësto's stuff out. He has a free weekly podcast.

The music genre you are looking for is EDM (Electronic Dance Music).

Well that's almost embarrassing, there's a giant thread about exactly that in TL general right now. Checked it out and it seems good! T_T

Thank you!

LambtrOn

United States671 Posts

March 30 2013 23:51 GMT

Hardwell, he also has a weekly podcast. He's the perfect mix between electro and progressive house. You'd also probably really like Zedd.

ihOpe

192 Posts

March 31 2013 01:48 GMT

On March 31 2013 08:26 Bibbit wrote:

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Well that's almost embarrassing, there's a giant thread about exactly that in TL general right now. Checked it out and it seems good! T_T

Thank you!

w/ busta rhymes

what bout these?

LockeTazeline

2390 Posts

March 31 2013 05:20 GMT

I'd be remiss not to mention Ocremix, a hub for free excellent music of all genres (especially for those who are nostalgic for video game music)

Some samples:

Serenity's Wake by Sole Signal. (Remix of Title Theme of Wave Racer)
Source; Download

Thunderstruck by Big Giant Circles. (Remix of Windmill Hut from Ocarina of Time)
Source; Download

The Passing of the Blue Crown by Steppo, Sixto Sounds, Zircon (Remix of Title Theme from Mega Man III)
Source; Download

(If you're interested, PM me, and I can recommend a host more, all free (legal) downloads)

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

March 31 2013 06:18 GMT

On March 31 2013 14:20 LockeTazeline wrote:
I'd be remiss not to mention Ocremix, a hub for free excellent music of all genres (especially for those who are nostalgic for video game music)

Some samples:

Serenity's Wake by Sole Signal. (Remix of Title Theme of Wave Racer)
Source; Download

Thunderstruck by Big Giant Circles. (Remix of Windmill Hut from Ocarina of Time)
Source; Download

FF7 VotL by OCRemix is incredible. And the best tracks are from the same artists as the tracks you posted here (Big Giant Circles, Sixto Sounds and Zircon).

esla_sol

United States756 Posts

March 31 2013 08:26 GMT

http://www.amazon.com/Invol2ver-Sasha/dp/B001BP4UEA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364718263&sr=8-1&keywords=invol2ver

sasha's the best dj in the world, and as far as mix cds are concerned, this is probably his best

ChaoSbringer

Australia1382 Posts

March 31 2013 08:37 GMT

#10

The EDM genre you seem to like is House / Electro House.

https://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv is a really good resource, it uploads a lot of the weekly radio shows that were mentioned above.

Heres one of my favourite sets from my favourite producers, hope you enjoy.

https://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/w-w-live-transmission-prague-czech-republic-19-01-2013

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

March 31 2013 16:57 GMT

#11

Electronic music person here. EDM is a blanket genre used for all danceable electronic styles, people use the term similarly to like.....rock...so its far too general to actually have any specific sound.

The tracks you posted:

First one would probably be classified as progressive house of the arena avicii style thats really huge right now, but with some nice retro flavor.

Second track is more electro house but with a ton of prog and some of that same retro.

I will go throu and grab some tracks from my main comp a bit later for you to try and see which direction you like out of those. Should be fun.

OK. I'm on my computer.

So you have basically three elements in the tracks you like: Prog house, Electro, and a retro/french house vibe

I'll take you in all the directions and see where you wanna go

So firstly if you go in a bit of an electro direction you end up with artists like Lazy Rich, maybe you'll like his remixes

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Maybe this kind of thing, long track but mixing progressive and electro/complextro elements

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If you like the choppy wierd bits at all then you can go into stuff more like Wolfgang Gartner:

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type stuff

If you don't like that direction you can go towards prog house more, I don't really enjoy the more modern style with its emphasis on huge arena melodies, so here is some older style more relaxing stuff:

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Then you have the french/retro angle. If you want to go in that direction there is Justice and the Ed banger stuff. I would highly recommend Dilemn:

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You can keep going in this direction and end up with like:

https://soundcloud.com/defeat/defeat-unbrkbl

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and even:

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all depends where you want to go...and then there is shit that is completely different...
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Electronic is fun

powerfulcheeses

Canada101 Posts

March 31 2013 17:19 GMT

#12

You seem to be most into electro than anything else.

If I were you, Id check out Ed Banger Records (Justice, Sebastien ect.) since they might have some stuff you like.

LockeTazeline

2390 Posts

March 31 2013 19:26 GMT

#13

On March 31 2013 15:18 endy wrote:

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FF7 VotL by OCRemix is incredible. And the best tracks are from the same artists as the tracks you posted here (Big Giant Circles, Sixto Sounds and Zircon).

Yeah, OCR has so much great stuff; it's difficult to pick just a couple songs to recommend haha.

blubbdavid

Switzerland2412 Posts

March 31 2013 20:00 GMT

#14

Bitch please, REAL electronic music:

Bunn

Estonia934 Posts

March 31 2013 20:06 GMT

#15

hypnotika.org has a wide variety of free electronic music. You can also find many artists on soundcloud.com.

Bibbit

Canada5377 Posts

March 31 2013 20:20 GMT

#16

Thanks a lot everyone. There's a ton of great stuff here and I appreciate the help of each of you beautiful people! Special shoutouts to sob3k, that was especially helpful. :D

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

April 01 2013 03:06 GMT

#17

On April 01 2013 05:20 Bibbit wrote:
Thanks a lot everyone. There's a ton of great stuff here and I appreciate the help of each of you beautiful people! Special shoutouts to sob3k, that was especially helpful. :D

If you want to investigate on your own, Beatport is the itunes of almost all new electronic. It has nice sorting and suggestion features so if you search for a track on it you can listen to a fairly large sample and connect to other releases by the label or other tracks by that artist/related artists. Of course then you can find these releases elsewhere on the web for a cheaper price usually ;

DukE_ss

United States689 Posts

April 02 2013 03:18 GMT

#18

To me it seems like you enjoy the big arena/festival and trouse style that's big right now. I'd suggest listening to any Avicii, Armin van Burren, Sander van Doorn, Ferry Corsten, Tiesto, David Guetta, W&W, ATB, Tritonal. Basically check out Armada as a label.