Love the emotional trapstep thing, completely just missed it first time through. All these sub genres are getting kinda ridiculous. we should combine country music with dubstep and call it Cuntstep... for real, im sure it will catch on.
Another thing that makes me shake my head is "electro swing." my friend and I were trying to plan this music-based event, except he's trying to go the electro swing route and make it purely an electro swing event whereas I want bass music such as dub, dnb, and anything in between... So I took a gander and listened to electro swing and all it sounds like is minimal and tech house beats with a swing tune thrown over it. kinda disappointed. people think it's creative but it is really like these rappers taking very generic slowed down 808 beats and saying the same word over it for 3 minutes. It isn't even samples from what i've heard so far, its just the pre-recorded swing tunes thrown over very generic minimal house beats. that's it. electro soul is good because it's not a pre-recorded tune thrown over a beat, it's resampled, re-edited, and dropped just at the right time to give it that "wow" factor...
what made electro soul so great (even though it really is just glitch-hop with soul samples and elements) was it's hip-hop elements and pure funk and bounciness. electro soul guys like PL, Gramatik, and Big G can make people get down to this funky energy that they create, whereas electro swing just sounds very half-assed to me. listened to a 30 minute mix and was just thinking "I'm not gonna get down to this at all"... kinda like the people that got together and said let's take the lyrics out of crunk, put it at dubstep tempo and just play that for 90 minutes... bummer. was hoping to play at it this event too but i'm not even gonna try since you simply cannot go from this basic half-assed electro swing shit and take it up to the energy level that is head-banging bass music in 2 minutes. purely impossible. hence why you won't these huge bass music guys like Excision or Bassnectar have a minimal house act open for them. it would simply fuck up all the energy that makes their shows so huge. oh well, i realize i'm just ranting at this point.
Edit:
If there is anything to be taken from this extremely off topic rant, it is to be creative and expand your comfort zone. don't just settle for something because it's easy. take and study all the elements of music that you love and enjoy and try to utilize bits and pieces of them in your music. For example, I like Metal Music and 90s Hip-Hop. So when I make music I try to combine that head-banging feel that is metal music and give it that bouncy vibe that is old school hip-hop. instead of head-banging music, call it head-bouncing music :D... And whenever you do make this "psychedelic" electronic music, I would love to hear it. that same friend i mentioned above is trying to plan an overnight camping event that I want to play at if it happens (and isn't electro-swing the whole fucking time)... therefore, I have been trying to compile a bunch of music to use for a 4-5 hour sunrise set for if/when this thing ever happens. a lot of atmospheric DnB, "chillstep", and oldschool/newschool breaks and glitch music.
Another Edit:
anyone have any input on the legality of these things in the states? I am trying to get him to work on permits, insurance, and security to be cleared legally, but he's just trying to keep it free of legal interference... not quite extreme anarchy, but it seems to me like an attempt at a drug-fest which seems extremely stupid and irresponsible. i'm more worried about health and safety whereas they are just trying to rebel against the system that makes our lives "so difficult" compared to generations past...
