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Why did electronic music become popular recently? (America)
If it was so uncool, and almost nerdy to listen to electronica in 2005...
The genre name electronica might be relatively recent, but wildly popular music that can be considered "electronic music" ...
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Avicii - Stories | Uncredited vocals?
This is what I could gather:
Waiting For Love (feat. Simon Aldred)
Talk To Myself (feat. Sterling Fox)
Touch Me (feat. Audra Mae)
Ten More Days (feat. Zak Abel)
For a Better Day (feat. Alex Ebert)
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What is Robyn singing in the music video for Royksopp's Monument?
According to YouTube user "Rob RIN" in his comment here, the lyrics are as follows, with the inaudible in parentheses:
Make a space, (please let us love)
For my body, (so that I have enough)...
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What's the difference between house and techno?
House - very melodic music influenced by 80s disco and electro; house has simple beats and real voices
house examples here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki6wWg2o8uQ
Techno - very percussive, ...
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Why did electronic music become popular recently? (America)
Most mainstream crazes have a pre-life as the niche enthusiasm of a small subgroup. In this particular case, as with certain other formerly nerdy activities such as computer gaming, the decisive ...
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What is the style of Moderat (A New Error)?
The specific style of music for this track is ambient IDM mixed with a run-of-the-mill electro beat. Usually that ethereal sounding style of IDM is found in slower and more relaxed tunes like this one ...
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Why did electronic music become popular recently? (America)
tl;dr
How did electronic music become popular in the early 2010s?
Miley Cyrus, FL Studio, and Sirius XM, and electronic music festivals.
First one's to get your attention, but still kinda true.
2020 ...
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How do people dance to drum and bass?
While your question is more about informal club dancing (what my wife thinks of as "free style"), I think that a quick look at formal dance styles will provide a firm basis for answering this question....
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What's the difference between house and techno?
House has its stylistic origins in Chicago. In Chicago, the black community heavily use gospel and blues as just the vernacular frame for their music. The dances there is the jack and the juke. ...
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Gareth Emery's Soldier Lyrics Clarification
I guess Roxanne Emery's Facebook post on 22 April 2013 can be considered as the most official source:
When you're falling down, and your armour fails, I will be your shield, I will keep you safe. ...
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How do electro-swing artists get that old cracky gramophone voice?
A lot of what we think of as "old time" vocals was due to the very limited frequency response of the old microphones that were used at that time. The same thing applies to telephone audio in the pre-...
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What's the difference between house and techno?
answer is so simple. house music contains Claps on the second beat in the measure, where in Techno, claps are non existent and the snare is very rarely put on the second beat in the measure.
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What's the difference between house and techno?
OK, in short, and cutting a lot of corners: House is the EDM version of "black" music (soul, funk, jazz), and Techno is the EDM version of "white" music (rock). House usually has a "swing" feel to it (...
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Has Justin Bieber written the 'melody' of any of his songs?
Let me just quote the Wikipedia:
Baby" was written by Bieber with Christopher "Tricky" Stewart and Terius "The-Dream" Nash, both of whom worked with Bieber on "One Time", R&B singer and The-...
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Genre of two songs
I got the same results as you when I googled Love Yourself Justin Bieber genre and Dancing On My Own Calum Scott genre, which is where I'm going to assume you got those songs' genres from.
However, ...
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Does "computer manipulated gibberish" have a name?
The rhythmic cutting and splicing you hear in the first example is intended to resemble scatting or puard al thain (mouthing). When this was first being done it was called cutting or chopping. This ...
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Knife Party - Destroy Them With.. Lasers or Lazers?
Knife Partys official YouTube channel lists the song name as "Destroy Them With Lazers" making Last.FM the correct spelling.
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How do electro-swing artists get that old cracky gramophone voice?
In this particular case, and for many electro-swing songs, the voice is actually a sample of a genuinely vintage song:
http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Lil_Hardin_Armstrong:Oriental_Swing
This is Lil ...
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What kind of edm genres specifically did Delia Derbyshire help pioneer?
The only real answer to this question is "all of them." At the time she was active, in the early sixties, there were no separate subgenres --or really, even any main genre. Electronica was still ...
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Song with same backing track as Daft Punk's "Something About Us"
I, unfortunately cannot find any background on this track, but I have found multiple copies of the full track itself.
Here is the oldest copy I have been able to find, not necessarily the original ...
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Music for relaxing mind?
If you into electronic then i can suggest to check out CHVRCHES new single called "Leave a trace" they have great beat and also awesome lyric! For classical one, if you know Yiruma--he had a great ...
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Music for relaxing mind?
This question is a bit opinion based, but here are a few I would recommend:
Yo Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin, "Air on a G String"
Yo Yo Ma - "Soledad"
Pachelbel's Canon in D
Palestrina - Sicut Cervus ...
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Most popular Genre(s) for content creators (e.g. Youtubers, game designers, etc.)
According to this chart, you'll probably want to stick with Rock, R&B/Hip-Hop, Pop and Country, as those 4 make up the widest spread of popular music. It really wouldn't make any sense to program ...
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How do people dance to drum and bass?
How do people dance to drum and bass?
Really fast!
That's the most obvious answer, anyway. And I'm not joking.
The other option is to dance half-time, i.e. on the snare (2 + 4). There is no ...
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Jean Michel Jarre songs with lyrics
His last couple of albums, Electronica Volumes 1 and 2, feature several songs with sung lyrics.
These are collaborative works, the leit motif of the albums being that each track is a collaboration ...
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Jean Michel Jarre songs with lyrics
Revolutions has some lyrics but not really in the same way as more conventional songs.
Here are some credits:
Jean-Michel Jarre – Synclavier, Roland D-50, Fairlight CMI, Synthex, EMS Synthi AKS, OSC ...
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What's the difference between Goa and Psychedelic Trance?
Nowadays there isn't much difference. There are specific sub-geners of psytrance that can be identified by the scales they employ and the structure of the songs.
Goa uses Southern Indian scales, ...
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When did Progressive Trance appear?
The first trance track was Age of Love - Age of Love (Jam & Spoon Mix) which came out in 1992. I have several recordings of Steve Mason's BFBS radio show from 1993-1994 where Steve announces to ...
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