Forum - View topicAre you more open to EDM?
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Azathrael
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EDM - Electronic Dance Music
I used be a huge trance fan before I started getting into anime. In fact, the reason I got into anime is because of J-trance, which I happened to come across while listening to trance. But I remember 2-3 years back there would be posts over at the di.fm forums about trance being rejected in the mainstream. I've personally had some people give me weird looks when I say I listen to trance - their reasoning being that trance isn't really for your everyday-listening or that it's for ecstacy users and ravers. But since I've started watching anime because of J-trance, I naturally looked for more and more J-trance. I've listened to pretty much all of Ayumi Hamasaki's ayu trance mixes, pretty much all the songs by the artists who participated in the SEED OSTs, InitialD OSTs, individual artists like Kotoko, etc etc. So how open are you to EDM? I've used "trance" for the rest of my post because that's mainly what I listened to. EDM is a genre that consists subgenres of trance, techno (Yes, there is a difference between trance and techno), hard trance, happy hardcore, house, hard house, progressive, etc etc. Did listening to EDM OP/ED from anime make you more open to EDM in general? Would you be able to stand it if I told you to listen to EDM for an entire day in subsitute for what you usually listen to? For any already-EDM fans, list your favorite DJ's. 
[Or you could not break our listing rule and explain why they're your favourites. -Nagi] |
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Akemi_Idaku
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I think maybe the first trance I can remember hearing from anime came from Kotoko in Onegai Teacher. After that I kinda stuck with her for awhile and checked out some of her other songs, though not too many were appealing.
So I started looking into other popular J-trance singers with DDR as one of my sources. I heard an Ayumi Hamasaki song and I've become quite interested in her now. On a side note, I think ayu-trance is more hardcore trance than Kotoko and many other trance artists. Ayumi Hamasaki is now one of my most favorite singers, though her voice can fall into that annoying J-pop squeek at times if she's not trying to do trance. EDM as an all-encompassing genre is acceptible as long as it fits the soundtrack and projected mood of the anime. To be honest I didn't know anything about J-trance or J-techno until I went to Animazement and I basically fell in love with it afterwords. So I suppose it made me more knowledgable about other EDM genres rather than making me more open to it. I liked the genre set for a long time before watching anime. Though honestly, having liked the genres all this time, I know I wouldn't be able to have it substituted for what I usually listen to. I like to keep a balance of music genres and styles. I couldn't listen to all of the hardcore rock on the Beck soundtrack in one day without my head pulsing. So I balance out the trance and techno from Ayumi Hamasaki and Scooter with the vocals from Maaya Sakamoto, Yuki Kajiura, or Susumu Hirasawa. Or I balance heavy rock from the pillows and Beat Crusaders with softer rock from L'Arc and Porno Graffiti. Throw in some Haruko Momoi/UNDER17 for J-pop effect and top it off with the Haibane Renmei and Kokoro Library OSTs. But that's going of track. Have you ever tried listening to Synthpop? It's a good vocal/techno genre. Just a few of my many favorites for EDM are: Scooter (British techno group) Ayumi Hamasaki (J-trance) Echo Image (Synthpop) Neuroactive (Synthpop) Do you know any good J-trance or J-techno DJs, artists, or groups? I've been really interested in the genre recently and would like some info. |
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Azathrael
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Besides artists like Kotoko, who is only partly J-trance, I don't know any DJ or artist that specifically focuses on J-trance. I know a few Japanese DJs that spin trance and vocal trance, but that's about it. The main J-trance I was personally referring to were the remixes of Ayumi Hamasaki's songs, because they're really popular among the DJs.
The Japanese DJ I know, who made a mix called "Crystal Tokyo", is Tsushima Masaki. |
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velocet
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I don't mind trance etc. in context, but I don't like a lot of that variety of music to just sit and listen to, so I really wouldnt want it to be the only thing I listened to all day.
It is pure context music. Trance, techno, house, hard house, all sound miles better when out clubbing. I can't listen to that stuff sitting around the house reading a book, it does my head in. It's alright in small doses, on the radio or one album's worth at work or something, but generally speaking I'd say it's not something I'm 'into'. There's a few tracks I can listen to on my iPod if I'm late for work it gets me moving a bit faster. If I'm out clubbing, great, though most of my mates aren't into it that much so we don't go to clubs with trance/house type DJs that often, once every couple of months maybe. In the context of the animes they're used in, like Initial D for example, I like them a lot, but though it was good enough to make me want to get the soundtrack when I was watching the series, I haven't found myself listening to it very much. I don't actively dislike trance, but as a genre I find it very repetitive. It's hard to find anything that's really unusual. Stuff like techno and house has more room for creativity I find, and I can get into it more, plus as far as clubbing is concerned I also find a greater amount of people in the room who aren't off their face on something illegal. As far as Japanese dance music is concerned, as I'm not terribly interested listening to music that sounds better out clubbing at home, I can't say I've made much effort to seek it out. I've heard a fair bit of KOTOKO and Ayu's dance remixes, and they're pretty standard stuff, no better or worse than stuff I can buy domestically for cheaper, so while I'm not dismissing them or discounting them, I don't listen to them very often either. The only group I can think of I have tracks by that I listen more often than others would be Dream, though I came across them outside of anime context, it was the theme songs they did for Hikaru no Go that made me like them a bit more. They're much more house than trance I think, but I have been meaning to look into them a little bit more, I like the singer's voice and the tracks I've heard (Night of Fire aside) have nice hooks. As far as dance music of the non-Japanese variety is concerned, I'm more interested in breaks and anything that's a little more funky. Most stuff on Ninja Tune, Herbaliser, DJ Shadow, Mr Scruff, Deadly Avenger, 4 Hero, Lo-Fidelity Allstars (back in the heydays of Skint!) most of the Fabric DJs, the kind of pop-dance electro stuff I have soft spot for like Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Air, Royksopp, Stereolab, Lemon Jelly, the Go! Team, etc. etc. I know that's listing, but I'm a music obsessive first and an anime fan second, if I was to go into depth as to why I like them we'd be here all day. If elaboration is required, I'd be happy to do so, but as you've worked out by now, I can be pretty long winded...! I'm open to all genres of music, with a few exceptions, one of which is Happy Hardcore. I've been subjected to a fair bit of it, and I've even given it a chance, but as a genre I've totally failed to encounter of anything of aural merit. It's well known that music affects mood, and when the shop I work in was promoting a new HH compilation over xmas it made customers agressive and rude. It made staff miserable and short tempered and even though playing it boosted our sales of that particular comp. a lot, we had to take it off before the end of the album virtually every time we put it on. I've just had enough of Happy Hardcore, it does nothing for me, whatsoever. I'm usually pretty good and finding at least one or two artists I like within a genre, but I've come up with nothing in that one! You can't win 'em all, I guess. I've written down the name of the DJ you mentioned, and I'll check him out, I love getting into new stuff. |
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Tsushima Masaki
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Well, I hate to break it to you, but Tsushima Masaki isn't actually Japanese >_>. Heheh http://tsushimamasaki.blogspot.com/ Anyway, from what I've noticed, people who enjoy anime are generally more open to Electronic Music. |
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hanachan01
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I'm a techno/trance fan. I like listening to the dance radio stations at the middle of the night, because that is when they play techno and trance. I will I knew the names of the songs though. And I'd listen to J-trance if I knewwhere to get it.
I'm an ayu-trance fan also! Sometimes I like it better than the original song I think 'M' is much better as trance, for example.
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