First Post.

Hi. There is no shortage of music blogs on the internet, and many of them are phenomenal. This blog aims to be one of them. It is meant to showcase music, most of it recent, that people might like. I guess a lot of that music will be house, because I love house. But it won't be an exclusively house blog. I'll post all sorts of electronic music, hip-hop, mash-ups, I'm not sure where this blog is going to go yet.

A lot of the music being pushed forward these days by the music industry is so below-par. Some of it is clearly meant to garner sales and not much else, while so much of it lacks any content of noticeable quality. One of the reasons I was first attracted to house is because it sounded so amazing. The beats would come together in ways that no other type of music could provide. Electronic dance music remains one the most important revelations of my life. The other reason I was so attracted to house is because it had no face. There was no over-arching stereotype of what a DJ should be like, how they should talk, dress, etc. Artists were anonymous behind the music. Anyone with working ear buds could tune into the sound.

The problem is, these days the sound is becoming more and more mainstream. Now, there is nothing inherently wrong about going mainstream. It allows for greater publicity, sales, and demand for more music, but one of the main problem with going mainstream is the over-commercialisation of electronic music.

Let me give you an example. David Guetta is one of today's foremost electronic music artists. Five years ago, DG was sensational. Not as famous as today, but still pretty damn famous. Up until after the release of Pop Life in 2007 DG was probably one of my favorite artists. Today, he has fallen a considerable way down that list.

David Guetta - Jack is Back [Fuck Me Im Famous Remix] 

DG is no longer making music like this. Sadly, It is confined to attempts to get on the Billboard 100 like this:

Shannel - Other Side [feat Lil Wayne & Ne-yo] [prod. by David Guetta]

This is just an example of how I feel about the industry at the moment. In a sense, electronic music is following in the same footsteps as hip-hop. At hip-hop's inception was musical movement intent on providing a sound that everyone could relate to, or at least everyone in the vicinities where hip-hop was being produced. As the decades rolled however, hip-hop became more and more commercial, at the expense of true musical quality.
Today, characters like Soulja Boy and Waka Flocka are selling millions worth of records, while forgotten artists like Binary Star are no longer on the radar. It is difficult not to agree with Chris Rock.



I certainly feel that house may be heading that way, but I am grateful for the fact that all music genres have a solid base to fall on. Electronic music's base is every kid who has ever gotten down to a beat, every kid who has ever tried to make a remix, and to those kids who are gonna grow up, and maybe not become famous, but will still carry on the glorious tradition of giving people some good sound. It is to those folks that I dedicate my very first post.