what genre is big in your city?

sydney: bars & lounges mainly play hip hop and r&b :(

hard to find a place that'll play house, d&b or trance that ISNT a house, d&b or trance club.

i love r&b and hip hop to death, but the type of crowds that the music attracts, well, is fcuked.
 
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im from Melbourne, house and electro are massive in the club scene, although you can get pretty much any genre if you know the rite places to go
 
ckamer3 said:
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
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Damn, I'm an hour and a half away in Lexington, and electronic music in clubs doesnt even exist.
 
In eastern Canada, the rave scene is big on psy-trance.

also, freeform is big amoung the younger ravers, with UK Hardcore.
Gabber, terrorcore and speedcore also have a crowd.
we saw some breakbeat hardcore last summer, didn't like it.
makina was popular, but less now.

in after-hours: house, hard house
 
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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Have to disagree my friend. I think the scene is as good as it's been so I guess it comes down to taste because I love the minimal and different tech that's being played at a few underground places (I was never a fan of the banging detroit techno).

Of course, the mainstream places are playing horrible rnb, cheesy house etc. but there's lots of great smaller nights out there, and many pushing live artists and local independent producers (ace morning tonight, for example). Admittedly I was never into trance but the prog is still out there with private function, sunny and darkbeat parties regularly happening and breaks are as big as ever. Some good parties combining genres nowadays, too!

Like your idea about the friday evening session because it's hard to find the good tunes early on in the night.


As for the topic: Melbourne has gone from being a techno town, to prog town, to breaks town. Techno has been making a definite revival over the last year or so, however.
 
I hear you, and I must say, PF, Sunny, etc.. have always been good nights. I'm sure they still are. That's not what I'm looking for in a club night anymore though. I caught Lee Burridge @ Sunny earlier this year, but I just can't listen to that kind of music anymore, it does absolutely nothing for me. I don't like "trance", but I do like incredibly melodic music, and prog has lost a lot of the good melodic elements that it once had.

As far as a Friday evening session goes, that's pretty much all I want now, music that, while interesting and definetly beat-oriented, is not banging and well, predictably 4/4 house based music. Lot's of breakbeat (ie. NOT NU-SKOOL BREAKS), ambient techno, downtempo, dub, trip-hop, hip-hop, instrumental stuff, nu-jazz, even bordering on blues/rock/post-rock. Not eclectic for it's own sake, but certainly adventurous. Which is something I'm not hearing in prog/house/dance music these days. It's not something I haven't heard before, and it all blurs into this boring, overly homogenised sound after a while, and I can't get into that. I'm not much for genres anymore, I just want music that resonates with me, music that makes me feel good, and not boshing club tunes that just bang around for the sake of it, with no real musical character.

/rant
 
AcidRain said:
adelaide, australia - house in the commercial scene, drum&bass otherwise
hard house & NRG used to be big but its fading

I dont like any of em . .boo :(
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I'm from Adelaide as well, and I pretty much agree with the above.

Drum & Bass is MASSIVE here...a couple of months ago Roni Size played here and got around 1200 people through the door of a smallish club. It was absolutely packed in there..and there's no way ANY other genre could pull that many people (to a club) here in Adelaide. We had Andy C playe here for New Years Eve for 04/05 and that's saying something, considering alot of people (from other states) say Adelaide is a hole...Oh, and Marky & Stamina AND Concord Dawn are playing here this New Years Eve! =D

Other than that, Hard House will get a decent crowd..and I reckon Trance is on the rise. Alot of people like trance here, but it doesn't really show in the crowd sizes at trance nights.
 
Austin is fast becoming a psytrance hotbed. At least 3 local crews, and parties almost every other month. Other than that, breaks have been making a real splash here.
 
metro detroit area.....
hmmmmm lets see, id have to say techno, hard drum and bass and any style with the word minimal in front of it
 
Perth... hmm Drum & Bass is the genre of choice, although more is needed on thee Saturday night.

Bigstar... correct me if i'm wrong but i believe Concord Dawn are one of the headliners for NYE in New Zealand Phat 07?

http://www.phatclub.co.nz/

OR are they doing a (really hope the flight doesn't get delayed) play NYE in several places a la cosmic gate (mutter mutter...)?
 
ThoseUnknown said:
So true. It seems to be this way everywhere in FL. It's almost like there is this giant bubble over FL that keeps all this garbage contained here. Music is progressing everywhere else around the world, except here.
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????????

did you miss carl cox at sunset06?

there is tons of other shit going on in florida, the dnb festival is going on the 16th in tampa's cuban club

my boys are doing a show that you might like in the end of dec.

www.four4ths.com

my boy is doing a live tech-house pa, it's off the chain.
 
minneapolis minnasota - all the partys here are mostly electro .. sadly but younger people here love HHC (14-21) all of the others love there d&b
 
yossarian_is_sane! said:
Perth... hmm Drum & Bass is the genre of choice, although more is needed on thee Saturday night.
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also from Perth, Australia... drum and bass is pretty darn big when the big names come over west, but lacks a regular saturday night dnb-only club. Used be Heat, but is now no longer.

Trance is still around too though, as well as the other mainstream turd :\

oh yeah, breaks is also pretty big here, Breakfest turns in a sold out crowd every year, as well as regular weekends at Ambar...
 
Where I am from its all about the top 40! Yee haw! Madonas new single is out! The dixie chicks get constant air play and I love it! Blink 182 has a new album out? Well its all you are going to hear at the bar for the next two weeks and I love it!

Somebody shoot me please.
 
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