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Hardstyle, Deep House, Trap
"When will the bubble burst?" DJs and industry-ites have been wringing their hands and asking the heavens this question since EDM went from zero to hero in 2010. But 2012 gave a glimpse of a potential future that doesn't involve CD bonfires (ala Disco Demolition) or a Luddite shift back to string instruments. Hardstyle, the 150-BPM beat onslaught currently packing arenas overseas, made its way to the U.S. in the form of a dedicated stage at Electric Daisy Carnival, and the charismatic figure of Headhunterz, the genre's most popular DJ who happens to be boy-band-level adorable. Deep house, a throwback to the early days of house and disco, is being embraced anew by hip figures like Jamie Jones. And trap, a hip-hop/dance hybrid clogging the Mad Decent release schedule, found its own emissary in Brooklyn producer Bauuer, who had a lightening rod with 93-BPM "Harlem Shake." (He's hitting the road with Just Blaze in January.) Bubbles, you say? Only in the champagne.
Headhunterz - "Dragonborn"
2013年06月02日 01点06分
