How Come There Aren't More Black EDM DJs/Producers?

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To be honest I'm not even sure what "EDM" refers to, since the term isn't really used in France. I know you know your music, how would you qualify for example what Soulection does? Stuff like this track from Sango



or Stwo



Nxxxxxs (obviously inspired by Southern HH)



Skence



There's obviously HH influences all over, I usually call it instrumental hh even though it doesn't really fit imo:yeshrug:

I would qualify what they do as future bass imo.
 

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@IllmaticDelta true indeed in Belgium those genres have been big for ages (which I guess explains why there are so many festivals), as well as in France to a somewhat lesser extent.

electronic dance music is bigger outside the USA sice the 1980s because America carries the legacy of the anti-Disco backlash
 

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Because EDM is a made up term by White Americans who don't understand anything bout non Indie music.

EDM for most part is just crass commercial Dance music(Trance, White folk House, White folk trap, that thing they call Dubstep) that Black people were never in the first place.

In America unless its Soulful House, you ain't gonna see too many Black folks period(djs and partygoers) outside of Detroit.
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electronic dance music is bigger outside the USA sice the 1980s because America carries the legacy of the anti-Disco backlash

All right yeah I get it now...I actually saw a documentary (can't remember the name) that talked about this, I had no idea that happened in the US before watching it.
 

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I've been saying that house and techno might be the most African of African American music.

it goes back thousands of years to the drum and the dance. and the tribal communion.

reinterpreted in its modern form it could be considered AFROFUTURISM.
 

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This shyt is crazy :skip::russ::francis:

Reading a little about this on wiki, the whole dynamics behind it is really interesting from a cultural/social point of view
I take house music into consideration from a social and cultural point of view as well. and the rejection of disco nearing the end of the 70s is as American as Baseball and Apple Pie.

Like Trumps election and the rejection of EVERYTHING Barack Obama established.
 

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Y'all clowned Lil Jon when he started getting into that shyt, and every hip hop and R&B artists who dabbled into that shyt.

Jermaine Dupri was called "broke" and "DJ'ing as a last resort to make money"

Til y'all realized how much dudes like Tiesto,Skrillex and Steve Aoki were making.

Who tf is ya'll I never clowned Lil Jon?? :what:
 
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