EDM-A Modern Rock Genre

  Like every form of art, there's different styles and like music, there's different circles of musicians that are more comfortable to listen to while your sipping that nice frappachino from Starbucks.

  Unfortunately, technology has changed overtime. The most modern advancement of musical technology was electric instruments such as guitars and their basses. You could play these on different sounds through a foot pedal and push a metal stick, called a whammy bar, up and down to make a whiny sound with the notes. But now those electric advancements in instruments have gone away and are being replaced by machines such as synthesizers, sequencers, and computers. This type of modernized music is decent in some usages but not as something to listen to without the use of moderation. This type of music is known as Electronic Dance floor Music (EDM).

   Luckily, I can listen in on this type of music through particular artists who use these machines but keep to the old habits of using guitars and drums. I did a little digging and discovered that some modern artists who fall under the EDM category are mindful in their over usage of the electronic sound. First, EDM is essentially 21st century techno music, not the music of the previous decade (I will miss you 90's awesomeness). Second, EDM is more or less the minimal use of electronic so that it doesn't cover up the original sound of the guitar or the bass. Finally, EDM can be classified under pop music or as a technological form of rock.

  EDM though has been gaining popularity as its other art form, which is Dub-step. Although Dub-step might not be considered music by some people who don't mind EDM, the general population uses Dub-step for other purposes, such as raves. In a rave, your stuck in the dark and covered in glow sticks. So although Dub-step does have a practical use, that is the only use it has. Sadly, Dub-step should not be considered as music.

  Electronic music on one hand is useful for some who do not want to completely give up on finding a piece of music that still involves some use of classical electric guitar or electric bass. On the other, EDM's sister Dub-step does not seem to have more than one useful purpose. The modernization of music is more or less enforced by the what popular demand wants to hear on public radio, which means all other forms of music from the previous century are deemed obsolete and should be removed for the purpose society to go forward, but that isn't true. You don't have to throw out your collection of Orgy songs for the sake of someone who wants to sip chai tea to the sounds of Blood on the Dancefloor, but there is always something that you could do and that involves one question: what is music to you and how much do you value that music? TTFN!

For more information on these newer forms of techno, here are some wiki sources on what the genres cover. If you want to get to know some artist of the EDM genre and its sub-genres, I have provided you a listening of Band Aid Covers the Bullet Hole by Scarling, one EDM artist that I listen to.

 

Dub-step via Wiki
Electronic Dance floor Music (EDM) via Wiki
Electronic Genres via Wiki
Dark Wave Bands like EDM via Wiki
Electronic Rock EDM via Wiki

Which Music Is Which?

   Led Zeppelin used to be known as the most influential metal band during the rise of the band. Many people didn't know what metal was and any new sound that didn't sound like The Rolling Stones or The Beatles rock music was labeled a different genre. Psychedelic music was also common at the time Led Zeppelin was becoming a popular band. But what interests me would be how we perceive music and why we label music so differently.

   Before there was Gaga, Perry, and Beaver (German translation of Beiber), there was good quality music. Sometimes the bands weren't that bad to follow until they broke up or simply died off because someone wanted something new. My own personal taste would be how I can listen to music and feel every single note, every single beat, and every single instrument create a symphonic melodic piece. But with the consistent use of synthesizers and electronic enhancements, the music industry has hit rock bottom. There will never be a soulful Amy Winehouse, or a whiny Kurt Cobain, or even a raspy soul-singing Christina Aguilera. My point is that sometimes there is a need to keep everything the same and in fact use it to your own advantage without destroying what makes you a person.

  People don't realize that good music is hard to come by. Steve Nicks sounds amazing after being away from the music business for awhile. Morrissey is trying to ascertain his voice to a new crowd of people who want to know how ugly the world truly is. But the use of instruments is common in both artists musical ability. When you play with electronics, they can only play a certain rhythm that repeats over and over again. Let's face it, that gets boring. A note changes depending on its pitch and its intonation, a computer can't do that. The whole point of this argument is that music today isn't music, its just electronic bullshit. You can't say that an old dial-up sound is not as important. You can still make good music, without having to consistently change all the labels of music that was once good, to a crappy genre.

  Music is just as important as coffee, no one is unable to go through life listening to the same old bullshit and doing the same old routine. Music should be a fun listening experience without the use of destroying a perfect creation for the sake of someone else and their happiness. I like my music and I never want it to change. The only question I have for you would be, would you go for a whole month without listening to electronic crap and find out how truly amazing music can be? I double dare you!

Why Are People Interested in Books After Seeing the Movies?

  Movies are a growing popular trend in basic modern day life. Sometimes movies encompass stories based on true events, modern adaptations of Grimm Fairy Tales, and the popular retelling of a book and its plot by using CGI's and popularized actors and actresses.

  For those who don't know what I am talking about, let's take some famous books and look at why these have become successful movies:

  1. The Wizard of Oz is one of the many popular movie adaptations based on the novel by L. Frank Baum. While the movie was made during the end of the Great Depression (1939), the movie and the novel both retell the plot of economy and many monetary standards that would apply to modern day. The issue that the author, L. Frank Baum is trying to illustrate would be how the money of the olden days was being backed up by the gold standard. Gold is one of the precious metals that was used in developing coins or certain forms of currency. If there isn't enough gold to back up the money we use to buy, trade, and sell our items for even more things we don't need, the whole purpose of the gold standard and backup to support our green bills (also known today as dollars) will lose the value and that we have indefinitely placed on the money that drives our economic force today. The Emerald City, also known as the place in which all people want to live, will become a never ending dream. Perhaps, a dream that will only remain a dream because only the elite would be able to live there. If you don't believe me, please watch the Dark Side of OZ (1973), in which the plot still stays the same, but the use of Pink Floyd enhances the plots hidden meaning.

  2. Harry Potter is another novel that focuses on how a young boy achieves success against all odds. While there is a man who is on a quest for ending the life of this miracle boy, there is also a hidden meaning towards Harry's friends who join him on his never-ending adventure. The movies portray a young man overcoming all odds and learns how to accept his new found identity. While the novels and the movies can be studied for LBGT tolerance, the fact that being a wizard or a muggle being, should not hinder your struggles and lead you to become the next victim of the Dark Lord.

  3. Pride & Prejudice  is a classical novel on how the impact on how a person's vices and virtues would be a problem for a person to find love, marriage, or find their perfect 'match'. Unlike Twilight's rehashing of this historic novel to promote the ways in which an abusive relationship would leave you open and vulnerable, the modern tale is overcoming your own personal hatred towards someone of a particular class standing and be able to be happy with the person you love. Elizabeth Bennett is the second oldest of five sisters. Fitzwilliam Darcy is the nephew of a wealthy Duchess. When the two first meet, they are in fact revolted by each other. Elizabeth Bennett tells her sister Jane to reject the marriage proposal from Darcy's friend Mr. Bingley, she uses her prejudicial view to explain that marrying a man of wealth, only leads to trouble. Unfortunately, our heroine falls for a man whose pride turns against him and makes him vulnerable for a woman who refuses to marry a man and succumb to his fatal attraction.

   4. Corpse Bride may be one of the most interesting Burton stories that he has ever created using clay-animation. The story is about a boy who is unable to perform the wedding ceremony properly with a woman he is paired up with for financial reasons. Somehow it sounds all too similar when someone thinks about the movie Fiddler on the Roof and you may be right. This movie is about the story of one particular Jewish custom that was acted out during the 19th century. In Victorian Russia, Jews were not a welcome sort. So when the marriages occurred in Jewish sections of Russia, there was always a little bit of anger to fuel the flames. If the bride was murdered, or died in some strange way on the day of her wedding day before the honeymoon. The bride would be buried in her wedding gown because she was the bearer of future generations. Although this is a true tale as told by many Russian Jewish people who lived in Russia or passed it on, there shouldn't any kind of question regarding the statement 'till death do you part.

  While I am talking about stories that have been edited, rehashed, or retold in alternate settings, I will not cover the Grimm's Tales and it's Disney adaptations or the alternate forms of telling Grimm Fairy Tales that do not follow the same context as the original story because that would take too long and then there wouldn't be enough left to cover stories that would be more suitable for anyone who is not interested in any more Disney Films. Check back later for when I use Disney films to talk about nonconforming movies that are appropriate for children if they choose not to be the next Princess Cinderella, Belle, or Aurora.

   5. The Blob is considered a class science fiction movie about an alien species devouring everything in its wake. While the film is about an actual police report in Pennsylvania, the movie seemed to take this mysterious encounter between cops, bullets, and alien gelatin and use it for Cold War propaganda.

  6. The final movie retelling actually happens to involve one of the sexiest men alive and the first Bond ever, Sean Connery. The Hunt for Red October is based on an actual novel about the mutiny of Captain Valery Sablin, a Russian soldier who was abandoned by his crew because Communist wanted to hijack his own sub.




 If you are interested in learning more about these stories, their plots, or any scientific studies, check out the links provided below:

Wizard of Oz Novel Themes
Oz in Politics and Money
HP and LBGT
Russian Antisemitism in Victorian Russia
Dark Size of Oz complete movie
Popular Movies from True Stories

A New Set Of Wings

    Popular web browsers like YouTube and Facebook are helping a new fan base grow and emerge into the next league of fictional love stories. The Fallen series is a new adaptation of love and romance between humans and mythological creatures. These mythological creatures in question are in fact the angels and demons we have known through the Bible as part of our religious culture growing up.

          Who is the talented author that created this series? Her name is Lauren Kate. She was one of the authors struggling to create a new love story with a new focus rather than using the same old pickup lines for our fanged and bat-like desires. While Stephanie Meyer just copied the outline of Jane Austen and the Bronte’s sisters to create a modern vampire romance of the popular Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet to create what we know as Twilight, Lauren Kate used her own imagination to bring the book of Genesis to life. Moreover, the usage of twitter and Instagram also encourages the use of technology and advertising the Fallen series through Facebook pages such as ‘Fallen Books’ or the Instagram account LaurenKateBooks.

          Through the use of internet as a medium for advertising and creating a growing fan base of people who have read this particular series, it’s no wonder that Disney was interested in creating an empire of fallen angels for those who did not enjoy the vampire empire of Twilight. Disney and Lauren Kate have agreed to filming rights for the first novel but they are waiting for the blockbuster success. However, once they are able to determine how successful this movie has done when it comes to theaters in 2015, they will agree to the rights for the next three books. The director they have chosen is Scott Hicks, who made The Lucky One with Zac Efron as the leading star.

  

          Movie adaptations are the closest to technological advertisements that some movies could achieve such as the Twilight and Harry Potter franchises. But this franchise will hopefully allow more people to learn that love truly never dies once the media has picked it up by storm. If you want more information on the books or the movie, go to the books website through Random House publications or go to Lauren Kate’s website. To find out about the upcoming movie, look for interviews with the actors or Scott Hicks on YouTube or through other databases. Bon Appetit!

From left to right: Harrison Gilberston (Cameron Briel), Addison Timlin (Lucinda Price), and Jeremy Irvine (Daniel Grigori)

Lauren Kate's Website

Scott Hicks on Fallen Novel Series

Disney Casting Auditions for Fallen