Creating music, taking influence, top 40 narrow minded?

Dealing with top 40 music on a daily basis, and writing about it frequently, I notice similarities between influences of artists such as who they are influenced by, where they search for influence, and why they are influenced by certain things. It seems that quite a large percentage of artists in the top 40 take [...]

Relationship between Australian radio, music and journalism

 
The majority of music journalism is focused on mainstream artists and genres – this is an undisputed fact, and has been given credence by the other posts on this site. I think that radio plays a crucial role in the determining of ‘mainstream’ music, the popularity and evolution of various genres and performers, and thus [...]

Fabric Club London

Fabric nightclub is a great example of the thriving dance music culture that is alive in the Uk, America, europe and Australia. I went to Fabric last time I was in London. It has three separate rooms each with its own sound system which means there is three totally different music genres being performed live at [...]

This is where it’s at.

This is an example of where good dance music is being experienced.

The music has piano featured, violins and a full sound…. this is what is missing from Top 40 music charts. The commercial dance music in the Top 40 charts is nothing on this sort of sound. (noting that YouTube isn’t [...]

Dance music as an alternative to mainstream music.

The dance music industry is an alternative to the music industry. The cultural production that arises out of involvement in music is evident across all genre’s of music. Music is a language whereby individuals can communicate on a deeply personal level or with global communities. There is rising academic interest in how music, and particularly [...]

Dance music is so commercial

I am sick of hearing crappy competitive dance music. I want to hear more music from DJs that play music like the stuff Pete Tong plays. I want to hear music that  isn’t soulless and had no depth I want to hear more music like this….
Pete Tong
Not only is the music full of great sounds this particular [...]

The history of House music and the implications for youth identity

The history of house music is very interesting. House is a genre of dance music that was developed in the mid-1980s in three major american cities: New York, Chicago and Detroit (Ter Bogt et al. 2002: 158). In the 1970s DJs were experimenting with mixing records to create continuous blended music. The structure of the [...]