Big room
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Big room
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| Development phase: | Early 2010s |
| Instruments typical of the genre | |
| Drum computer , percussion , sampler , sequencer , synthesizer | |
| Stylistic origin | |
| Electroclash , electro , house , trance | |
| Subgenres | |
| Hard room, jungle room, | |
Big Room ( English as "large room") is a subgenre of electro house -music. Dirty Dutch and trance , among others, are the basis . The term originated from the popularity of the genre at festivals and discos. The most famous representatives include Martin Garrix (who left the genre in 2015), Hardwell and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike .
characterization
Big room songs are often based on the ideas of Dutch house and electro house. The songs are mostly assembled from simple parts. The big room track usually consists of two drops and two breaks, each with a bridge that precedes them. Important characteristic features are the minimalistic use of percussions , catchy melodies, a beat that can be found in a sub-bass , simple melodies and so-called breakdowns created by synthesizers. The structure of a big room track is very similar to the layout of a typical electro house song, which acts as another reason why big room is described as a subgenre of electro house.
Crossovers
Due to the good suitability for festivals and DJ sets due to the simple structure, large amounts of crossovers with other genres were created. Build-up and kick are mostly based on the big room and the synthesis and sound effects are taken from other genres. With the release of the song Once Again, a mix of hardstyle and big room, Hardstyle-DJ Headhunterz makes his switch to this style of music. Armin van Buuren produced big room productions with trance influences with songs like Off the Hook or If It Ain't Dutch or musicians like KURA and NoTech found themselves in a crossover of jungle terror and big room.
development
The style gained popularity through numerous EDM- oriented tours and festivals such as B. Tomorrowland , the Ultra Music Festival and the globally popular Holi festivals .
The genre became known in particular through Epic from the Dutch producers Quintino and Sandro Silva, as well as Spaceman from Hardwell. Both songs developed into worldwide successes in mid to late 2012. The songs were particularly popular and used at festivals. One of the first big room productions is the track Rattle by the Dutch Dj and producer duo Bingoplayers, which was released at the end of 2011. It also represents a crossover of this genre to the Dirty Dutch style. The songs Tsunami by Dvbbs in collaboration with Borgeous and Animals by Martin Garrix , who was 17 years old at the time , added many more to the sounds of the Big Room brought further directions and occupied the top positions of the official sales charts in several countries for a long time. Other founders of the subgenre are the songs Wakanda by the Belgian brothers Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike , Cannonball by Showtek and Justin Prime and LRAD by the duo Knife Party originally active in dubstep .
The year 2016 is said to be the year of the weakening of the genre. In this a number of the decisive representatives, including Martin Garrix and Dvbbs, left. Crossovers with hardstyle or future bass have become more and more common due to the increasing popularity of these genres. Against this trend, Hardwell's record label Revealed Recordings continued to publish big-room productions, including by Olly James, Maddix and KEVU.
Columnist Maximilian Wild from the online magazine " Dance-Charts " wrote about the change in the genre:
“We live in times when, with a few exceptions, hardly any high-quality bigroom productions are thrown on the market and the former faces of this music are turning away from the genre. DVBBS are now making Future Pop, Martin Garrix seems to have outgrown his infancy and to have found his own sound and even the grandmaster Hardwell is experimenting more than ever this year - everything was jungle terror, garage house, hardstyle, trance and classical dance pop somehow represented "
criticism
Big room is considered a very controversial topic in the EDM scene and has been criticized by numerous music producers. The reason for the criticism is the supposedly monotonous EDM sound, which lacks creativity and originality. Mixmag described the genre as a fusion of "titanic breakdowns and flawless, monotonous production aesthetics (read:" lowest common denominator 'beats' ")." In a Reddit post by Wolfgang Gartner , Big-Room was described as a "joke", which was followed by Over-saturation at events as well as the sale of cheap dance music from major labels to teenagers resulting in major problems in the EDM industry were addressed. Well known producers like Axwell and Steve Angello who were part of the Swedish House Mafia have emphasized the need for more creative and experimental EDM tracks.
In mid-2013, the Swedish DJ duo Daleri uploaded a one-minute mix on SoundCloud , which was called Epic Mashleg . This consists of 15 big-room drops, all of which took top positions in the electro and progressive house categories on Beatport . It should be noted that the Beatport criteria for a progressive house track do not correspond to those of specialists. The drops are only separated by a short kick and all played in sequence, including songs by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike , Hardwell and W&W . It is noticeable here that the differentiation of the songs is almost impossible and that they are almost identical in melody and structure, which was the intention of the mash-up . Member Eric Kvarnström said: “The scary thing is that new tracks of this kind are coming out every day. Every day new tracks and all are the same and it will go on like this, all the time. ”The duo's productions also have a strong influence of the big room, which is particularly reflected in their releases at Armada Music , but they justify this through her basics of the complextro house.
Also in 2013 a dispute developed between the two top producers Deadmau5 and Afrojack on the social media platform Twitter regarding the originality of house music. It ended up with Afrojack producing a four and a half minute track called something_ that starts with the style of Deadmau5 and ends in a Dirty Dutch style. In response, Deadmau5 uploaded the short track DROP Da Bomb , with which he criticized the entire big room scene.
Well-known representatives
- Blasterjaxx
- DVBBS (until 2015)
- Martin Garrix (until 2015)
- Hardwell
- KSHMR
- Showtek
- Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
- W&W
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b spin.com
- ↑ Maximilian Wild: Is Bigroom EDM Dead? on " Dance Charts "
- ^ Wolfgang Gartner: I am Wolfgang Gartner. Ask me anything you want. Accessed November 21, 2016 .
- ↑ mixmag.net ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ thedancemusicguide.com ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ mixmag.net ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
