Dance Music Social Ladder

Dance Music Social Ladder

Anyone got the list?

I noticed people ripping into BOUNCE, yet some of them folks who are doing that go to trance & HH nights & I see that genre getting ripped by others. So can someone please post the list of main dance music genre in social class order.

These boards were known as promisealways.com and qualityalways.com, therefore everyone whos been on since then has been a trance/hh fan at one point.

1 gavotte
2 waltz
3 tango
4 hokey cokey

trance
prog trance
house
techno in all forms
'hard' anything
tiesto
donk

Bet your lass is happy, I prefer harder music, so anything from Gabba/Hardcore at the top and Trance/House at the bottom.

DANCE MUSIC SOCIAL LADDER ? , I`ve never read anything so ridiculous !!




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So you aint read any of Melts post then i take it

LOCK THE THREAD !!



no such thing as a social Ladder in Dance music !!




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I would love to be able to agree with you, but I can't. Just look at the average Hangar 13 crowd compared with the crowd in Fabric on a Saturday night, for example.

so ?.., i`ve been to Hangar 13 and Fabric had good nights at both :beer:




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Not saying that you can't have a good night at both, more that you get a significantly different class of people! And yes I know that that is a generalisation, blah blah.

1) Anything i like this week.

2)Stuff i don't.

Those are my social music distinctions

Though i do prefer to go to partys where i have things in common/get on with/similar out look to the other poeple there.

Being surround by fighting charvers is not my thing outside of doing youth work.

I also don't like being surrounded overly Nathan Barley types or other fashion victims.

all you need to know is ' does it make you want to dance'

if the answer is yes then its ... good

too much musical snobbery these days - none more so than on the minimal / electro / elevator music 'wewant to be famous' scenes

there are several out there who ponce around with their 70 quid haircuts and minimal / electro / house record collections parading themselves as cooler than cool who used to wear white gloves and smear vix vapour rub on their balls - but they probs dare not admit it

having said that too many stripey jumper rockport wearing gurners on crap cowies will probabaly ruin any gig

but on the flip side, some types who people on this board would have down as charvas are some of the best people floating around on/in clubland

i like hard beats with an old skool twist + good people in an unusual location = good night more often than not

people diss hard dance music - period - but the shear fact that tidy weekender is still putting on top events speaks for itself

i'll make a prediction

minimal techno will die before hard beats / hard dance ever does

dance music doesnt need social politics

Completely agree with Power Tool on this.

I said that !!





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It doesn't need it but people do & always will sneer down at other music types, check the Destiny post in club listings.


I just want to know what is at the top pile & what is at the bottom.

I reckon electro / some kinds of minimal / house are top of the pile

and at the bottom is scouse house / donk

musical forms change / evolve

thats why i laugh so much at the label hard style

i mean what kind of name is that

i mean even hard house really is a laughable tag

it basically was a genre lable created to define tony de vit taking beltram / bolland hoover noises speeding them up and putting a 4:4 beat to it - for the london / trade gay crowd

early hard house / hard dance was unreal until it became very predictable and toy town sounding in the early noughties -

i mean even trance is the same ... what people call trance or classic trance they often refer to as the carte blanch ferry corsten just left of centre mainstream stuff from the late nineties

but to me trance is stuff from platipus / age of love etc from 92 etc etc

thats original old skool trance

different strokes for different folks i guess

destiny serves a purpose

ps: a lot of minimal does not make me want to dance !!! it makes me want to go to sleep - the hawtin cd given away with mixmag 1-2 years back is the perfect insomnia tonic

im not a musical snob or owt, id happily gan to error, but then again i was at the front all night at the last detox..went to balance last month and it was absolutely full of utter bell ends, exactly how melt described. wouldnt go again which is a shame cos the music was class.