Why More Genres Is a Good Thing | Electronic Music
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0:01A: Is there like a subgenre of like EDM or dance music that appeals to you the most?
0:07B: A subgenre? Man, I don’t know. I kind of like don’t really pay attention to that stuff. I kind of just like consume and like listen to music and create without thinking about like genres or anything like that, you know?
0:23A: But do you see subgenres? Like, I don’t really listen to electronic music, honestly.
0:27B: Yeah, I mean, I think that like, of course, if people were to like categorize my sound or like stuff that I’m into, I feel like it would be like wonky, like space-based, I guess, you know, some glitch hop. Yeah, I was thinking -- I don’t know, man. It’s -- there’s so many genres. There’s so many genres, and they continue to evolve. And I think that’s really cool because I think it just gives people more of a reason to like go in on what they love and find what they love, you know what I mean? So Yeah, it just like makes more space for little niches that people can connect with, which I think is really, really, really cool for sure. But yeah, I’m definitely into that like wonky trippy shit, melodic, you know, a little bit of everything, but keeping it real with like live music and stuff, live instruments, vocals, drums, like taking, you know, even using like hybrid drums or all electronic drums.
1:31A: Yeah.
1:32B: It’s still like everything just is still -- you try to humanize it and like make it real. And I don’t know, dude. Yeah. So I think that’s just like the counterbalance to AI is holding on to whatever, like little shreds that we have of like humanity, you know, and like our own human, like experience, which is not perfect. So.
1:56A: I had 4 seasons.
1:58B: And I think that’s why people are still wanting to come to dance music and like connect and go to live shows and stuff like that. That’s like, that’s so huge. So even though a lot of what we do is like really --
2:11A: Right.
2:13B: Like lonely and kind of like isolated, it also is really like, it’s like, man, so much worth all the work, you know, that goes into it just to like see people connect and have a good time. And yeah, dude, I think that’s what people really just want now is they just want to like connect with real people, like get outside of their house, get back from behind their computers. And like, that’s what I think dance music has going for it right now. I think we should double down on the culture and like just build people up and like make it a safe space for everybody. And like, I think that also comes like educating new people to the scene on like how, you know what I mean?
2:57A: I know it.
