Hey guys, today I am going to tell you the real side of how I listen to and enjoy electronic music. One thing different from what I usually do in my past blogs, I am talking about some music makers that you may never heard about before, but I can promise you, THEY ARE REAL GOOD!
When I start to get interested in electronic music, I was only listening to some hit song makers like David Guetta and Calvin Harris that is pretty famous even for the people that don’t know much about electronic music. But as I listened more and more, I started to wonder who made these amazing music and I tried to find more music makers like them, and that is my turning point! I did fill my life with them every day.
One of the first DJs that I listened to is Tiesto. He is a Dutch DJ and record producer, also known as DJ Tiesto. In 2001, he released his first solo album, In My Memory. This album gave him some major hits and exposed him to more mainstream audiences. Also, he ranked at #1 on DJ Magazine’s Top 100 DJs polls for three years from 2002 to 2004. And of course he is still one of the top DJs all around the world today when so many new music talents start to appear.
Tiesto’s music is many fashion shows’ favourite. If you do like fashion, you will noticed that Tiesto’s music is played a lot on these fashion shows. One really famous example is that his music is played on Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show almost every year since 2010, even he has only been there once in 2013.
And here is one of my favorite DJs, Skrillex. To most people including me, his music sounds really “classic”. However, it is totally not like the composers such as Mozart or Bach, it is the very typical electronic music. Or in another way, many people call it “electronic noise”. This 26-year-old American DJ was nominated for 5 Grammy Awards at the 54th Grammy and won three: “Best Dance/Electronica Album”, “Best Dance Recording”, and “Best Remixed Recording, Non-classical”. On December 12, 2011, he was also named MTV’s Electronic Dance Music Artist of the Year. So far, he has won a total of 6 Grammy Awards.
When you see Skrillex in a picture, the first impression he gives you is about his distinctive hair. I believe he is not the first one that has this hair, but clearly he made it more popular than ever before!
If you do keep up with news about electronic music, you must have heard about this American electronic dance music duo called Krewella. It was originally a trio, but in 2014, the third member Kristopher Trindl, also known as “Rain Man”, is allegedly forced out of group for having drug and alcohol problems and “pretended to DJ” onstage. This is still making their fans arguing against each other today. Apparently, this also shows how much influence they have even just looking at the amount of news about them.
One thing I have to say is that their music is truly good even when they were having conflicts between each other. Krewella has headlined at EDM festivals around the globe and that earned them the 2012 International Dance Music Award for “Best Breakthrough Artist”, even Billboard declared that “Krewella is going to be huge!”.
All my words can explain how amazing the music is to the people that truly love them. Sometimes it feels awful even just think about how my favourite music is never played on the radio stations, but electronica means so much to the people that love it. If you feel the same about what you love, leave me a comment!
Today, NASA announced Orion's flight test is scrubbed. This is because of issue related to valves on Delta IV heavy rocket and they will try it again tomorrow. Because this is still the first test of a spacecraft that is designed to take human further than they have ever gone, there is no astronaut on it. And this will also mark the first time since the Apollo 17 moonshot in 1972 that a spacecraft will carry people far away from earth.
Obama Becomes First 3D-Printed President. NBC News. NBC News, 03 Dec. 2014. Web. 04 Dec. 2014. President Obama's face is scanned by experts from the University of Southern California's Institute. Digital imaging specialists at the Smithsonian created 3D printed bust and life mask of him. The first portraits are shown at the White House during a gathering of inventors, entrepreneurs and students. And the portraits are going on display at the Smithsonian. This is thought as a new genre of portraiture and it will be fascinating to see how it will be picked up and how the other administrations will also use that particular tool.
Today, I would like to show you a video before I begin.
This video is presented by Elite Daily. It’s a 7-minute film but has a good story and a lot of amazing captures of the two main characters. To show that love does unite people together, the producers from Elite Daily filmed this exciting and emotional aftermovie. And as the story goes, it shows about the place where the event happened, TomorrowWorld!
TomorrowWorld is a programme under the world’s largest electronic music festival, Tomorrowland. Started in 2005, Tomorrowland is now one of the most notable music festival in the world. It is also held in Itu, Brazil and King’s Lynn in England. As you may noticed in the video, this story is set in Atlanta, GA, which is the city that many of you are living in.
And if you want to ask something, yes, this amazing music festival, TomorrowWorld is in Atlanta every September since 2013. In the first year, TomorrowWorld received a nomination for Best Music Festival at the International Dance Music Awards. Over 140,000 people from 75 different countries and all 50 states of United States gathered in TomorrowWorld to enjoy the best electronic music and the greatest DJs in the world.
The most attractive part of TomorrowWorld is that the greatest DJs all come together for this event. Like some of them that I mentioned in my blog before, Avicii, Martin Garrix, David Guetta and Zedd. Also, there are some other great DJs that I have not talked about in my blog yet, like Steve Aoki, Tiesto, Skrillex, Nicky Romero and the officially No.1 DJ in the world, Hardwell!
Hopefully, even just from the numbers, you can feel the madness in this event. In that short movie, the story goes beyond the two characters and gives the viewer a look at the entire festival. One thing that everyone could see from it is that music does unite people together.
With so much introduction, I believe you would somehow have some interest on such a feast of electronic music if you are still a music lover. However, it might be a little disappointing that you have to be 21 to enter TomorrowWorld. I know this sounds really far from now for most of my readers that are teenagers, but just save it for later. A festival like this will not stop being held in a few years, and it will only become better and better as time goes.
Oh, if you feel like you are starting to love electronic music and this is not exciting enough, leave a comment below, I will introduce something more exciting for you.
And hey, if TomorrowWorld does interest you, here is the official aftermovie from TomorrowWorld 2014. It's 32-minute long, but also exciting enough, wish you would like it if you have the time to watch it. (With the unique remix version of the best electronic music which you can't find on anywhere else! )
Music is one of the most important art forms in 21st century. Wherever you go, you can always hear music being played, maybe on the radio in your car, maybe in the mall that you like, or most likely in a night club. You do not have to go to a concert to listen to music any more.
Since most people liked it, the radio station plays a whole lot of pop music. Pop is undoubtedly the most popular genre of music. But as music industry is developing, there is not such a big difference between these different genres. What you don’t realize is that a big portion of “pop” music is actually electronic music.
It usually makes people confused about what genre of music the song they heard is. That is surely a general situation. One reason is that some of these DJs made some songs that do not sound too “Electronic”, or in another word, they sound like pop music. That is a good thing because the combination of pop and electronic music is usually better than either one of them.
Among all the DJs that combine pop music and electronic music together, the most famous one is certainly David Guetta.
David Guetta is a DJ from France, one of the most famous dance-pop music producers in the world. He first started as a DJ in night in 1980s and 1990s. In 2002, he released his album, Just a Little More Love. Most people may never listened to this album, but it is the beginning of this great DJ’s real career.
Several years after the release of David Guetta’s fourth album, he released his fifth album Nothing but the Beat. The album was a huge success, it included the dance-pop track “Titanium” featuring Sia. One noticeable thing about it is that this song is still played on radio a lot even in 2014. In the re-release of Nothing but the Beat, the album Nothing but the Beat 2.0 hit the radio again later in 2012. With the unique charm of dance-pop music, it peaked number one at the UK Dance Chart and received a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronica Album at the 54th Grammy Awards. Although it did not get the Grammy Award, the tracks in this album are still popular after almost three years.
It is pretty obvious that a good DJ does not have to do the pure-electronic music to succeed. Some DJs that came to people’s sight recently have explained this really well.
Have you listened to the song “Rather Be”? The electronic music group Clean Bandit, from Cambridge, England, is the maker of this song. From the picture above, it might be a little hard to believe that is an electronic music group. But they are electronic music maker, although their music is not just the typical electronic music that people would think of, it has the elements of classical music and deep-house music. They use a lot of it and it makes it easier for most people to accept and get used to their music.
Sometimes, these electronic music does not have that much electrical charged sounds, or to some people, they call it electrical noise. And these music could still be good, and these elements, like classical music, that seems to be dead, could be used again. If you agree with me, please leave me a comment, I can introduce some more about this next time.
In modern music industry, electronic music is one of the most popular parts. And the new life style that is brought by electronic music has also become a trend for young people.
One of the most important part in electronic music industry is the DJs. Usually, a DJ is a person that mixes records for their audience. As seen on TV or news, a lot of them are really successful and are having a real celebrity’s life just like the most famous singers in the world do.
But when people talk about these DJs, they really need to mention the company, Spinnin’ Records. People that know little about electronic music may never heard about it, but one noticeable thing for everyone is that they have the most famous DJs in the world.
Like Martin Garrix that made the hit song “Animals”,
Avicii that made the song “Wake Me Up”
and Cedric Gervais that get the Grammy Award with his remix of the song "Summertime Sadness”. They are all DJs of the company Spinnin’ Records and they are all really talented on music mixing.
If there is a place that could be seen as the center of electronic music, that must be Europe. This continent is not even as big as the US, but it indeed has the most amazing and talented electronic music makers and DJs in the whole world. Some people say it is because of the support of their government that these DJs are sure they could at least live a comfortable life even they didn’t make a big success on it. And it is surely a encouraging thing to these European DJs, which made their electronic music industry so booming.
Here are some of the top DJs in the world, most of them are from Europe.
Daft Punk, electronic musicians from France. Known for their hit song with Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky”. And they are also remembered by many people with their ornate helmets and gloves which they almost never take off in their public appearances. In 2013, their single “Get Lucky” peak in top 10 in 32 countries and led them to five Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Record of the Year.
Zedd, a young DJ from Germany. Get known by his song “Clarity” featured Foxes which ranked number one at US Hot Dance Club Songs and number at Billboard Hot 100. And the hit song “Break Free” by Ariana Grande which is played all over the radio stations now is also made by him.
Calvin Harris, DJ from Scotland. Had a long experience of recording electronic music, first start recording at 1999, but really become famous all over the world in 2010. Calvin Harris has numerous hit songs like “We Found Love” featured Rihanna, “Sweet Nothing” featured Florence Welch, “I Need Your Love” featured Ellie Goulding and the number one dance song in this summer, “Summer”. What is amazing about it is that some of these songs are still on iTunes Top 50 Dance Chart even after 4 years. Also ,his new single “Blame” featured John Newman is also on Billboard Hot 50 Chart by the time I write this.
There are also a huge number of great DJs that I didn’t mention, like Tiësto, Hardwell, Alesso, Nicky Romero and David Guetta. If you want to see them or any other DJs that you like to appear in my other blogs, please leave me a comment, I will deal with it.
How many DJs can you recognize in this picture? Be honest and don't use Google, you can tell me in the comment.
At last, I have the music video of one of my favorite songs. A almost perfect remix of a slow song by the amazing DJ, Afrojack. (Because this video is originally uploaded to VEVO, you may need to click on the video and click on the link to go to YouTube to watch it.)
How are humans going to survive in a modern world without electronic music? Even just one day?
First of all, let me give you a quick introduction about electronic music. Electronic music is music that employs electronic instruments and technology. It origins at the early 20 century ,but it develops so fast that it has already become an essential part of modern human’s life. And it is also used in machining of other types of music, because electrical discharged music could enrich people's emotions about life. And a fact is that most people’s life just repeats day after day. But the passion and power that is brought by electronic music makes a huge difference for everyone.
And this type of new technology stuff always develops faster than anyone could think of. Just like computer technology, they make people fascinated on them. Music used to be very simple, but it does not usually make the listeners feel the real passion of life, and the way it express the music makers' emotion is limited. The using of electronic sounds and beats becomes a great tool for music makers to express their true feeling when they write these music.
For a good electronic music maker, the greatest thing is that they could find something uncommon from the common things, and the beat they bring just strike on these "keys" of human souls.
If electronic music could be compared to something else in real life, it is going to be coffee. It may sound a little strange to compare electronic music to coffee, but they are just so alike! For anyone, the very first taste coffee is not good, because coffee’s taste is just so different from anything else. And coffee itself does not have any sweet taste. But as they drink more coffee, it starts to reveal its real self to people, which is inspiring and also a combination of happiness and passion. Obviously, it is the same for electronic music. The first time hearing these “loud electronic noises”, it really makes a person feel annoyed and disturbed. However, as time goes and more electronic music are listened, it starts to be a enjoyable process, and of course bring happiness and passion.
It is really hard to imagine a world without electronic music, just like a world without coffee, how terrible would it be?
Imagine how people walk on streets with their earphones on, seems just like what it used to be. But the problem is that there is no more electronic music. Surely other types of music are also good, but without electronic elements, the whole development of music would be pushed back to 50 years ago.
Electronic music is such an important way to release our stress and negative emotions. It has become a necessary way to balance everyone’s emotions. And there are some music that would really make people feel upset, because these songs have some negative feeling in them when they were written. One exciting thing is that electronic music could fix these problems so perfectly. One famous example is Lana Del Rey's song "Summertime Sadness". The original version make some listeners want to "die", but the reason why this song could become such a huge hit during last summer is that, with the amazing editing of the electronic sounds and beats, it became an amazing passionate song. That's how the world is changed by these electrical machining.
Obviously, losing such an important way to release our stress and bring us passion will be a big lost, as we are used to it, everyone knows that we cannot live without it. If we lose it, the whole modern human civilization will slowly crash down to the dust.