How do you get people into electronic music?

Noodle said:
I've been into electronica since I first heard Herbie Hancock's - Rockit as a wee a child.

Later, during my highschool years in the late eighties, I found a shop that sold a lot of imports from Europe and smaller American labels like Wax Trax and TVT.


I've been hooked ever since.

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Herbert - We Still Have The Music
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I hadn't heard that Herbert track before - it's absolutely sublime - house music of the very highest quality!

The Herbie Hancock track is awesome too :) - I love so much 80s electro and synth-pop, including lots of really commercial stuff. It's amazing how crap chart music is now compared to the 80s.

I've been a big New Order fan since the mid-90s (the best of New Order was actually the first CD I ever bought - back in 1994), so that has nothing to do with me taking ecstasy. Having said that though, if I was a DJ (which hopefully I will be at some point :) ), I would definitely drop some New Order tracks into house/techno sets.
 
A good club, good lighting, good music, good dj, good friends...

and they'll associate the music with that.
 
MDMAhead said:
I didn't really 'get' dance music until I took ecstasy for the first time.

Don't get me wrong - these days I listen to electronic music all the time - even whilst completely sober, but without that first time taking ecstasy, I wouldn't get electronic music like I get it now.
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this really rings true for me as well. ...flashback some years ago to some really popular club night in DC. a friend of mine had recently come back from living in LA for 4 years. all she was talking about was RAVE. she found about said night in the city. convinced me to go, got me some good pills(i had only rolled like 2 times before this). me rolling face in this big club with multiple rooms of music. i wander out into the outside patio area, which i remember being like heaven away from the smoke and sweat.

I HEAR JUNGLE PUMPING OUT THE SPEAKERS. 'what the fuck is this', i said to myself, maybe out loud too heh. anyway i stayed out there there for the night and it was great. after that night I was hooked, and now i'm a little older and don't go out as much. but i still love this music to this day, and i rarely take e. this summer at an awesome music festival was the first time in years. late
 
I stopped trying to get people into electronic music. If they are interested, want to hear and learn more than I am more than willing to help them out but gone are the days where I try to influence what people listen to.

Some people get it, some people don't.
 
^ agreed.

to the op, why are you so desperate for people to like the music you like? sure, you want a shared experience but you seem to be putting your needs ahead of their wishes. to me, that's not something friends do to each other.

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
^ agreed.

to the op, why are you so desperate for people to like the music you like? sure, you want a shared experience but you seem to be putting your needs ahead of their wishes. to me, that's not something friends do to each other.

alasdair
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I live in a small town right now where there are no raves, festivals, etc. There are some kids that go down to Phoenix to go to raves, but they are all kandi kids listening hardstyle, hhc, and all that stuff. I'd like to get groups of people together that would enjoy listening to other types of music, because it is in my opinion that electronic music is a very social music. Yes, I enjoy sitting around by my lonesome listening to good tunes while I'm sober, high, or w/e, but being in large groups of people gives listening to this stuff a different feeling. I believe that when people are dancing to their hearts content, you can literally feel good energy coming off of them. I like the look of peoples facing after they are exhausted of dancing, it makes me feel good.

So maybe I'm selfish, but I'd like to see people up here get into electronic music more. I'm not shoving it down peoples throats. I don't think what I am attempting to do is any different then people at parties playing their style of music and hoping other people will enjoy/get into it.

If no one ever tried to introduce me into their styles of music, I would still be listening to Blink-182 and Green Day, as I did in elementary school. We humans are social organisms, and I think if I have a good intent to get people to listen to this stuff in order to feel good emotions that they have never felt before, I don't believe I would be doing any wrong. My purpose isn't to get people to listen to my music ("my," funny word I keep using) so I feel it is good, I already know I like this stuff.

I could get into how I think electronic music will be the twenty first centuries concertas where co-creation will be common or that electronic music can open your eyes to things you might never have discovered with out it, but I won't. I've already overstated myself.

oh and if I'm doing anything at all to push people away from crap like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_2rrxONlLo

I'll be happy.
 
levictus said:
The mixing. Most good artists are able to mix their songs to the point that it's almost a whole bunch of new tracks. Just compare the released Shpongle songs with the Shpongle DJ sets. And Shpongle live is even crazier. :)

And then of course, there is the powerful sound system...
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LMAO okay dude, sorry but Shpongle DJ sets are the SAME exact tracks as on the CD, EXACTLY, perhaps with a little effects added on, anyways Posford isn't really half as good a DJ as he is a producer. I was almost baffled as to how bonkers the audience was going just because posford was playing his own music when I have seen countless dj's mix better sets with his music in it.
 
Psychedelic Gleam said:
LMAO okay dude, sorry but Shpongle DJ sets are the SAME exact tracks as on the CD, EXACTLY, perhaps with a little effects added on, anyways Posford isn't really half as good a DJ as he is a producer. I was almost baffled as to how bonkers the audience was going just because posford was playing his own music when I have seen countless dj's mix better sets with his music in it.
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here in Nashville i saw Shpongle a few months back. i remember being disappointed, but luckily about 4 or 5 local bands/DJs were there too, so it was quite a good time. the best way to get somebody into any kind of music is accompany them to a live show, truthfully, and I try to supply some mix cd's as well. (with the tracklist)
 
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piku_playground said:
I live in a small town right now where there are no raves, festivals, etc. There are some kids that go down to Phoenix to go to raves, but they are all kandi kids listening hardstyle, hhc, and all that stuff. I'd like to get groups of people together that would enjoy listening to other types of music, because it is in my opinion that electronic music is a very social music. Yes, I enjoy sitting around by my lonesome listening to good tunes while I'm sober, high, or w/e, but being in large groups of people gives listening to this stuff a different feeling. I believe that when people are dancing to their hearts content, you can literally feel good energy coming off of them. I like the look of peoples facing after they are exhausted of dancing, it makes me feel good.
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thanks for the considered response.

if there's no scene where you are, organise and promote your own party. if you enjoy listening to electronic music then i can tell you from experience that doing it at a party you have made happen yourself is a great feeling :)

alasdair
 
by having a car and driving around my group of friends. i would always have a burned cd blastin edm out the speakers or we would be hangin out in my room tweakin on drawings with it on the stereo. soone they were like "yo play that one song again... hey can i borrow this cd" then id go over to their house and hear a cd i burned for them. started off totally unintentional.
 
Thanks for all the good ideas. I'm very excited to be getting my own place soon, and I hope to start having some edm parties.

A dream would be to find a way to rent a building in town for 2 nights a month or so and hold raves. I feel that many people become absorbed to the kandi scene because that is all there is. But up here, there is nothing. If we could get a psytrance scene going that would be awesome. But this is just imagination going here. :P
 
as others have said if there isnt a scene in your area and you want one, start one!!!

who knows, you might be creating the next hotspot of the US?
 
Psychedelic Gleam said:
LMAO okay dude, sorry but Shpongle DJ sets are the SAME exact tracks as on the CD, EXACTLY, perhaps with a little effects added on, anyways Posford isn't really half as good a DJ as he is a producer. I was almost baffled as to how bonkers the audience was going just because posford was playing his own music when I have seen countless dj's mix better sets with his music in it.
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I saw him live in Chicago and it was awesome. It definitely didn't sound like the CDs. Then again the Shpongle DJ set I saw in Moscow wasn't all that special.
 
make them eat a nice dose of MDMA and take them to a really good live show...

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