what genre is big in your city?

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since everyone wanted to rep their town's good taste in the most listened to nowadays thread, here's the proper place to do it. i'm always curious about what the kids are rockin' in other areas. let us know where you're from and what dominates the dance floors out there.

san francisco: this has historically been a house town, but breaks are massive right now. so massive in fact that i'm kinda sick of them, and i normally love breaks. dnb seems to be trying to make a comeback here but i don't know if it will be successful.
 
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.
 
Seattle has lots of different crowds and has at least some kinda market for almost everything. Most of that has to do there being a strong split between the rave and club crowds.

The rave crowds, of couse, love HHC and trance. This is kinda odd to me because neither of those really existed much (except for trance in Miami) back in Florida.

The club crowd has a pretty strong following of house and dnb. The War Room (not a very big place) gets all the great dnb names through town, and between Element, LSC and Trinity, there's a steady flow of various forms of house.

I don't really go out much these days, so I'm probably pretty out of touch on what shows people actually go to.
 
^ You got seattle right... the fact that we have a relatively vibrant hhc scene cracks me up. I'd talk smack about how hhc is the cheesiest music ever, but i've been known to listen to hhc once in a while.

One thing we definitely don't have much of and i want to see more of here is psytrance
 
ive just moved to a new town (knoxville TN) and the scene is nil so i cant say but im from near chicago so house is where its at
 
Melbourne (Australia), and the music has taken a turn for the worst IMHO. :(

It used to be hard not to find great techno/prog/house/breakbeat, but it's all come together with this hybrid electro/hoover/house type sound which is going completely bonkers, even moreso with all this pseudo-minimal music going around, and to be honest, I'm not into it at all, so much so that I've stopped going to clubs all together.

I was never into the euphoric (cheese) type trance, but I always liked the more "underground" melodic techno, dark prog stuff, and it made for good parties, these days it's all shit drugs and shit music and the vibe is completely gone.

I'm looking at getting a few people together to put on a semi-regular "good music" night in my town, I listen to a lot more jazz/dub/older psychedelic sounds these days, and I think it would make for an excellent Friday evening in a comfortable bar. :)
 
Austin - Mostly house, with some DNB heads as well. There's the occasional oakenfold or tiesto cheesefest, but it's mostly those two.
 
Toronto: House and Trance is big in the big clubs and the DNB scene here is maaaaasive =p
 
djdougcollins said:
Dayton, OH: Anything Lil Jon produced haha! But if it's electronic music, it's typically big room trance and breaks.
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that made me laugh :)
 
Liverpol has been taken over by MC'ing which involves a fuckin retard shouting over someone elses song, other than that most clubs play funky house or donk,I think thats what its called anyway.
 
Got Awesome? said:
Melbourne (Australia), and the music has taken a turn for the worst IMHO. :(

It used to be hard not to find great techno/prog/house/breakbeat, but it's all come together with this hybrid electro/hoover/house type sound which is going completely bonkers, even moreso with all this pseudo-minimal music going around, and to be honest, I'm not into it at all, so much so that I've stopped going to clubs all together.

I was never into the euphoric (cheese) type trance, but I always liked the more "underground" melodic techno, dark prog stuff, and it made for good parties, these days it's all shit drugs and shit music and the vibe is completely gone.

I'm looking at getting a few people together to put on a semi-regular "good music" night in my town, I listen to a lot more jazz/dub/older psychedelic sounds these days, and I think it would make for an excellent Friday evening in a comfortable bar. :)
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I dunno. I disagree. I think Melbourne offers a wealth of different music in various genres, it is quite a unique city, eletronic musice wise.

On any one weekend you can find a specialist progressive, techno, breaks, house, psytrance, hard house/trance/nrg, drum and bass or electro gig to attend. If you can't, you're not looking in the right places :)

I agree, there is a tech house/progressive/electro groove happening but I quite enjoy it and it seems to be where most producers are heading even the ones who traditionally play prog.

For me though, psytrance is where its at and Melbourne delivers it plentifully :)
 
Louisville KY,
The mid, midwest (in wierd spot between north, south, east, and west)
HMM.. Breaks is verry big here.. Our dnb scene is freakin awsome, verry cultured, small, dirty, gritty, and underground. Some tranciers floatin arround, I think the house kids moved to chicago becaues richie hawtin played a couple years back and only about 70 people at most showed. a little bit of everything else in small morsals
 
ruski said:
I agree, there is a tech house/progressive/electro groove happening but I quite enjoy it and it seems to be where most producers are heading even the ones who traditionally play prog.
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Hmm.. When I first got into electronic music, we were listening to the Urbal Beats Comps, Global Underground Comps, and several Electro MP3's a buddy of mine had on his computer...

The whole Tech House/Prog/Electro sound you're talking about sounds a lot like where the whole EDM movement came from in the first place.

It seems everything is coming full circle lately. Here in Albany, there used to be a small Techno following, but now it's mostly DNB.. And it seems as if the scene is quite dead here.

But hey, like I said... Full cirlce. The scene seems to be going back underground in these parts, and I couldn't be happier.

It's a good way to weed out the fucking poseurs and bar-hopping assholes. I was at a party in NYC a few months ago, and some guy kept on turning one of the speakers off in the bar. He was asked politely twice to stop doing it, and then he was thrown out of the party. If certain people didn't know about parties, and weren't made to know, then a lot of drama, drugs, and dickheads would probably find their way out of the scene..

But, I digress.... In Albany it seems mostly stagnant.. Not Happening.. While I am here, I hope to do something about that.=D
 
Gävle/Sweden (northen shithole). at dancefloors i pass by when outside i hear all the latest danceable hits. there are mabye 8 clubs in town and id say they all rock the same shit.

people though have a huge and very active love for finding the coolest artists. everything from 40s rock n roll to week old hiphop tracks.

im very content about the variety in the scene of 026 town.
 
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