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i thought this was the hard dance brooklyn bounce. got a bit excited lol

Some we may already know but others may surprise... Many times when a pop artist releases a song, their fans don’t think about all the people that were a part of its conception. However, pop stars often seek out some of the industry's best producers to work with them. These producers aren’t normally recognized for their contributions, and we wanted to share some songs produced by well-known EDM stars with you. Justin Bieber ft. Nicki Minaj - Beauty And A Beat Zedd has been known to work with some of the biggest names out there. After winning a Grammy for Clarity and playing live on The Today Show, you would think it might be hard to overlook anything he has been a part of. However, a Zedd track you might not be familiar with is "Beauty and a Beat by Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj. "Beauty and a Beat" was originally produced by Zedd for his album Clarity, but he felt that it didn’t quite fit with everything else. As a result, he got together with a team of producers and re-wrote the song to be released on Bieber's album, Believe. Lady Gaga - Government Hooker Lady Gaga’s music is very heavily influenced by EDM producers. Recently, she’s had a variety of popular EDM producers creating songs for her. "Government Hooker" was an unfinished track by DJ White Shadow and DJ Snake that was utilized by her team. This was far before DJ Snake had started to make it big in the EDM world. Additionally, Zedd helped produce the hit record "G.U.Y" while on tour for the Born This Way Ball. Zedd also helped produce the first song on the ARTPOP album, "Aura," with the Israeli trio Infected Mushroom. 'N Sync - Pop BT is one of the most talented producers in the game. He helped pioneer trance and made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for most vocal edits in a track. BT has worked with some of the biggest names in music, including Madonna, Sting, and Britney Spears. In an MTV interview from 2001, they declare him the “King of Dirty Pop” for his production of "Pop" by 'N Sync. BT’s use of stutter edit was revolutionary and sought after by many pop stars. Pitbull ft. TJR - Don't Stop The Party NSFW Even though TJR’s name is featured in "Don’t Stop the Party" by Pitbull, many people don’t realize that the track was a TJR original, "Funky Vodka." The sexually explicit content got the music video banned from airing in the UK. Needless to say, this music video is a much watch. Usher - Numb Another huge artist who has had some amazing support from big producers is Usher. "Numb" was co-produced by Swedish House Mafia. Usher and Swedish House Mafia actually performed the song together for the 2011 American Music Awards. They also worked together on "Euphoria." Usher has also worked with Diplo on the song "Climax" and "Go Missin’." Many photos of Diplo, Usher, and Skrillex in the studio together have popped up recently, so we might be hearing more EDM-infused tracks from the singer. Rihanna - Rude Boy Rob Swire has been a part of a variety of music projects including Knife Party, Pendulum and a metal group called Xygen (Pendulum before they were Pendulum). Despite working on projects that seem quite opposite from pop music, Swire helped co-write and produce Rihanna’s "Rude Boy" and "Roc Me Out." Now if that doesn’t show versatility, I don’t know what does. Coldplay - A Sky Full Of Stars It is undeniable that Avicii has had one of the most impressive dance music careers thus far. He's worked with some huge names and had some of the most memorable tracks in the last few years, including "Levels" and "Hey Brother." What some people might not know is that Avicii recently worked on Coldplay’s new song A Sky Full of Stars. In addition to the production of the song, lead singer Chris Martin asked Avicii to play piano for the song. Martin later told Zane Lowe in a BBC Radio One interview that he felt like he had cheated the band by asking Avicii to play piano instead of doing it himself. Kanye West - Black Skinhead Kanye West is another artist who frequently collaborates with big names. Daft Punk, Brodinski, and Gesaffelstein all worked on "Black Skinhead" and "Send It Up" on his latest album, Yeezus. Daft Punk also worked on "On Site" and "I Am A God." Kanye’s seventh studio album went on to be one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2013. Britney Spears - Toxic Britney Spears' favorite producers for a period of time were Bloodshy & Avant. The producers' real names are Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg. The two went on to create Miike Snow, which became a very popular band. However, you might be more familiar with Karlsson from his new duo with Style of Eye, Galantis. There are many more songs that could be featured in this article, but we encourage you to find some on your own. Many music fans don’t take the time to do the research, but hopefully this article will influence you to find out who the producers were behind some of your favorite pop songs. Article Credit: Sean Flynn Source: edm.com I've researched a few over the years and it's baffled me who's written what. it's definitely something you should do at some point for a bit of fun.

Hi doodes and doodettes. My mini kaossilator is up for sale. I bought it near on release and it's been in the box ever since. Rather it sit around, someone could actually get use out of it. Looking for $100

Try taking the lines out of the letters

i think it's a fun looking logo but i think i'm with cupe on the arrows. it'll look cleaner without the arrows

straightening perhaps?

dem feels

lol that helps just a little nah all good dude. glad you got it in the end. just keep an eye on it to see if it starts to degrade. how solid did you use it from when you bought it? (and i'd be super pissed off if it only lasted me that long too lol)

Looks like it's time to get a new one. I'm not totally sure what the gold bits are. Have you tried wiping it off? How old is the cart?

Gandy's pic you uploaded just got liked by R3hab. I don't think that's a fake account either.

@_chiccolino90

I thought it was a bit weird also. I've stopped watching the news months ago because I find it to be super stupid and depressing, and now it seems I'm gonna stop reading this shit coz they're getting just as lame

Yep, they do make life a little difficult but I love my apples lol

It's unlikely I'll do it myself coz I'll surely do something wrong lol

I might try opening it up and giving it a clean, otherwise I might have to invest in a new one

So my mbp I've had since 09 is starting to chronically overheat if I'm streaming video or music and if I'm driving logic pretty hard. It's never done this before and the only time it seems to be ok (in some cases) is if the charger is plugged in, though it still gets stupidly hot. Does this mean my laptop is seeing it's final days as a work horse and should be retired?

Thoughts? Big room house is the ‘pop music’ of our generation. Electronic dance music is the fountainhead of countless sub-genres, including techno, house, drum and bass, trap, trance, and many more. Big room house has undeniably become one of the prevailing subsets of the genre due to its widespread magnetism and minimalistic yet appealing qualities. Call it what you will: progressive house, electro house, electro trance - it's big room house. Although the genre has been around for a little while now and picked up by some of the biggest names in the industry such as Nicky Romero, Sander Van Doorn, Hardwell, and many others alike, a solid definition of what a big room house track is really varies depending on your perspective of the EDM community. Recently, "hipsters" of EDM spend most of their time disparaging big room house and hold the genre responsible for the common fallacy that: 1) Progressive/Electro house isn’t actual music, and 2) These producers cannot be considered serious musicians. On the other hand, the scene has experienced an outburst of popularity in recent years, as EDM has solidified itself as the music of this generation. Big room house is generally 126-132 BPM, and is more often than not referred to as the most commercial type of EDM in today's music scene. Big room differs from most sub-genres of EDM as a result of its inability to deter from the tightly knit structure it adheres to. Big room is best defined as a hybrid of multiple sub-genres, comprised of lengthy trance-influenced build-ups, a powerful and driving electro-style drop, and is also known to include a 4/4 hard style kick which will forever remind you of Martin Garrix’s #1 selling track “Animals.” The genre displays minimal elements production-wise with an overkill of reverb and an underlying percussion that has undoubtedly been used over a thousand times already. However, the biggest thing with big room house is to remember that repetition is key. Right around the time where dance music really took off stateside, notably towards the end of Swedish House Mafia, is where big room house entered the scene for better or for worse. In 2009, the legendary triumvirate released one of their biggest tracks “Leave The World Behind,” a track that I can guarantee you’ll hear at any major electronic music festival in the near future. With big room predominantly forced into the industry by SHM members Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Axwell, the three influential producers truly left a mark on the scene. We can thank trance-gone-house producers such as Ferry Corsten for dropping the popular track “Check It Out,” which was released back in 2011 and laid a concrete foundation for what we know today as big room as well. At this point in time, big room house has successfully infiltrated and conquered all major music festivals, main stages, arenas, and stadiums. Fast forward a few years to the present day, and we are now facing what some might call an "epidemic" within the EDM community. More plainly put, it seems that nearly every "big room" song put out by a major producer sounds iconically similar to the last. This past year at TomorrowLand, Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike produced the TL 2014 anthem “Waves,” a track that exemplifies all the significant aspects of any big room house track to have ever been produced. Big room house has for the most part negatively affected the EDM scene, as it has seduced the minds of many up-and-coming producers and even superstars of the industry. Probably one of the most prominent metamorphoses to take place in the history of EDM would be the king himself Tiësto. In an interview with DJ Mag, Tiësto explains how irrelevant he felt as the “trance guy” and wanted to be more connected with the current sound of the rising generation. Now, the former trance king can be seen headlining essentially any major music festival and incorporating much of what people consider to be big room house music into his live sets. It would be fine if big room house was left to be its own subset of electronic dance music, but what makes the sub-genre so controversial is the difficulty people experience in labelling what tracks are big room house versus progressive, electro, or even trance. Obviously, there is a difference between them, and this reasoning alone can support the notion that big room house is, in fact, already dead. Big room is dead because with this genre, the ability for a producer to utilize their full potential is lost, and thus makes it near impossible to evolve past the point of where they currently stand. It is so easy to produce big room that the genre has become the figure of fun within the EDM community. https://soundcloud.com/thisissoundnet/big-room-house-tutorial With Beatport charts consisting of basically the same track one after another, it’s easy for someone to say that EDM has reached a standstill. Big room house easily adds to the common misconception that all EDM sounds the same. Many genuine followers of EDM can attest to the fact that big room house is inherently very boring, and sadly much of the recent tracks being put out by popular producers are too. If you listen to this minute-long mash up comprised of select tracks from the Beatport Top 100, you’ll pick up on how similar every popular track actually is, and they're almost all big room tracks. https://soundcloud.com/daleri/epic-mashleg Producers spanning all subgenres within EDM can agree that creativity in production is at an all time low. It is especially noticeable when mainstream artists such as Avicii agree to this belief, as noted in an interview with The Guardian: “There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is. It's gotten to a point where everything sounds the same. There is no longevity in what's happening at the moment." In 2013, one of the biggest electronic producers, Diplo, supported the argument that mainstream EDM is becoming highly uninteresting in an interview with The Huffington Post: “There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut. You go see a dance stage at a f*cking dance festival and I'm bored out of my f*cking mind. That's not going to last very much longer, because kids see that it's the same sh*t every single time." Realistically speaking, there are various reasons as to why the extremely popular genre is dead. Big room house is fairly ironic due to the fact that it strays from EDM’s paramount beliefs of creativity and originality, despite the sub-genre actually providing some of the "classics" of EDM. Primarily, however, big room house is already dead because as with all genres, its only a matter of time before a new genre begins to appeal to the tastes of the masses, both of producers and music fans alike. With festivals becoming as much of a fad as they are today, mainstage performers can only get away with playing big room for so much longer. We have seen it rise and we will watch it fall, but the cycle will not end until the quest for creativity trumps our desire for simplicity. Disclaimer: The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of EDM.com. Photo credit: http://vibe.com Source: http://edm.com

Dude... Yes! This is awesome. Those vocals go so well with that tune. Keen to hear it on my monitors nice and loud. Nice job

6. Stardust 'Music Sounds Better With You' i am now listening to this

Haha yeah I thought this thread would've done alright. I can post up another one in the next day or so

holy shitballs! i knew the remixes were gonna start coming after the "leak" but this takes the cake Knife Party - Resistance (Elektro Riot Remix) https://soundcloud.com/elektroriot/resistance-elektro-riot-remix

lol I've been using it for a bit now coz it's what my mate uses and I've grown to like it

i've jumped ship

My brain melted just a little

it's good to network, so go meet these guys personally and have a chat with them. grab your mates and make yourself a regular down there and get in the photos (literally. a promoter recently told me to do that lol). if you support the club / event they're going to give you a shot. don't expect it to happen straight away but the more you make yourself visible the better your shot is gonna be. also as just a personal thing, don't bug them. these guys get kids emailing them, sending them mixes and asking them everyday to have a set so defs get in with the crowd and and do it that way. it's a bit of a process but good luck man