what genre is big in your city?

Birmingham, UK.

To be honest, most dance music is reasonably well represented here. Even dubstep is starting to appear in the backrooms of DnB raves and we've got a fledgling hip hop scene here as well.

The scene here is mostly dictated by what event venues are willing to put on. Hence, up until a couple of years back, DnB/Jungle and Hardcore/Hard House were the main things but, due to agro at the former and drugs casualties at the latter, most venues have tried to appeal to the haircut crowd with funky/minimalist house and electro type stuff (whatever that means) There's still one or two promoters putting on big raves (DnB jungle at the Custard Factory/Air, B2T doing Hardhouse/Hardcore occasionally) but most of the smaller venues are steering clear now and sticking to haircut house. We've got a fledgling hip hop scene here, but many venues are similarly wary of allowing promoters to use their venues. There's also a massive band scene here.

Luckily for us though, we have Drop Beats Not Bombs every couple of months, which is a celebration of pretty well every type of dance music you can thing of, so whatever you're into, you shouldn't have to wait too long for an event round here.
 
In Dallas, at smaller parties or independent raves its pscy trance, but normally its dnb or house, sometimes trance
 
I'm not sure whats big atm in sydney.
I'm sure it's a genre I don't really like.

Used to live in Perth, where the dnb scene has been a presence for over a decade. It was starting to become very prominent before I left in April. By prominent i mean you could hear young teens listening to it on their ipod really loud on the way to school, storefronts blasting it out or stores playing it quietly inside. It seemed to me that drum n bass was becoming a instantly recognisable genre that was encountered on a daily basis if u work in da city.
 
X said:
I think Aural was referring to Happy Hardcore. MUCH more Kandy Kid than trance, like, OBNOXIOUS Kandy Kid style...

Yea, Albany still sucks...
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In the midwest it's fairly funny when big events happen. I don't know if I've ever seen more than 1 happyhardcore DJ booked for any one event unless there's like over 150 DJs at it. I like going to the happyhardcore shows really fucked up on something just to gawk at kandykids.
 
Amongst my crowd on the semi-rural outskirts of sydney Hardcore, hardstyle/gabber seems to be what everyone is into though right in sydney you will most likely get alot of electro-clash kids and alot of the music in the clubs is electro-house. Trance is almost dead, havent heard ANYTHING EVER about DnB and of course theres the underground psy scene, theres ptretty much everything here you just have to look for it which is a good thing imo, the only people that turn up do so for the music not just somewhere to go on a saturday night.
 
Where i am now = techno, detroit techno. nothing but. little of electro here n there. but not really.

Where i was before = hardcore, hard dance. mad for it they were.

Fuck it all hardstyle all the way. nothing but.
 
i'm in the london area now and while we have the full spectrum to choose from, i'm amazed by how big hard dance is here. i don't know anyone who would be caught dead at a hard dance night where i normally live (san francisco) and in fact i don't even know of a regular hard dance night in sf. most people i meet here are big into hard trance. i even danced to some at a club in brixton and it was fun.

coming from the land of deep house it is kind of strange to see how crazy people go for really aggressive four to the floor beats here. the kids around here jump around like madmen all night too. hard dance is definitely not my style but i can appreciate the enthusiasm people have for it in the uk.
 
Psytrance, Electro-house, Drum n Bass, Minimal Tech.

Ska, Metalcore, Screamo, Indie.
 
I listen to pretty much just rap, same wit everyone around here.
 
Halifax the afterhours scene is so small the people are grateful for events, which is great because pretty much everyone comes out. And surprisingly promoters bring in some big names to such a small city. Most genres are covered. The more out there genres (hardcore, breakcore, etc.) I don't see much of.

Clubs?

I think there's more now than years ago in terms of deep house/house cocktail bar places.
 
Here in chicago .. its houseeeeeeeeeeeee

and electro house...

Of course house music was born in chicago
 
@lterEgo said:
i'm in the london area now and while we have the full spectrum to choose from, i'm amazed by how big hard dance is here. i don't know anyone who would be caught dead at a hard dance night where i normally live (san francisco) and in fact i don't even know of a regular hard dance night in sf. most people i meet here are big into hard trance. i even danced to some at a club in brixton and it was fun.

coming from the land of deep house it is kind of strange to see how crazy people go for really aggressive four to the floor beats here. the kids around here jump around like madmen all night too. hard dance is definitely not my style but i can appreciate the enthusiasm people have for it in the uk.
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i fucking hate all that hard crap

although, to my shame i will admit that at one very early phase in my dance music career i did attend hard trance/hard house events... dont know how i put up with it, must have been the drugs!

anyway in dublin at the moment theres pretty much most types of electronic music repersented, not much in the way of hard house anymore thankfully tho

the main one would be techno definitely, then followed by house, drum n bass, dubstep etc.. scene is pretty healthy
 
pittsburgh is biiig on drum and bass, hardcore, and happy hardcore

we have some really good local djs blowing up
lots of good raves

plus we are within driving distance of lots of bigger cities
 
DG said:
Boston: Its usually trance here (at the big clubs that is) but house is def. coming up. A lot of smaller house nights bring in big DJs. Sundays are a huge night for house music, a locally huge afterhours club brings in big house djs which is cool. We also have a mid week breaks night that does okay.
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hell yea,Boston.but i dont really know cuz i didnt grow up actually in Boston,but near it and was there alot cuz my dad grew up there so we got family there.anyway i know of a few good underground rappers from Boston though.
 
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