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In defense of: trance music

September 26, 2011 |

Electronic music is not generally considered to be very powerful. There’s a beat that you are supposed to dance to when it comes up, probably with jump-and-fist-pump combinations. There are few or no words, and it’s quite repetitive. Trance music is kind of like techno. However, there are a few key differences. First, beats don’t drop.

I <3 House Music

November 15, 2010 |

In the ever-extending blogosphere, house music reigns king. DJs are your new coolest friends. Your friend’s friends are probably also DJs. From Jersey Shore techno that’s so epic, it makes those afflicted fist pump uncontrollably and become unaccountable for their own actions, to deep Dutch beats that whip thousands into frenzies, the genre is producing this generation’s rock stars.

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