Electronic music, DJ culture and nerdism
When talking about music, we frequently use genre names to describe different styles. While someone who is not too deeply interested in music might only differentiate between Rock/Pop, Jazz and Classic, many music nerds find it important to differentiate between, say, Disco House and Deep House. Electronic music has been evolving fast in the ...
This mix is all about massive, dramatic, ass-shaking percussion. When I started selecting tracks for this mix, I found that the ones with the most interesting drum patterns gave me the biggest kicks. Not all of them have totally far-out drum patterns, but this mix is definitely more about what is going on when the ...
I always said, that I don’t like to play tracks that sound like Dance music tunes of the 90s, because in my opinion, this is a genre of electronic music, which is commercial and not very artful. So I didn’t play such tracks in my former mixes. Until a good friend of mine asked me ...
With the current “Harlem Shake” hype taking over YouTube by storm, it can easily be overlooked that the track that started this hype is only one example of an entire musical genre. I also have to admit that I was aware of it for a while already, but didn’t really start digging deeper until recently. ...
Yes, that’s right: This is officially the 100th mix on Sweet Headache! We celebrated 3 years of Sweet Headache a week ago in a small club in Cologne and I also invited some DJ friends to play there. This was the perfect opportunity to record the anniversary mix. The music went from Drum&Bass to some ...
