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!