Two More EDM Songs (Minus The ‘D’) [Free Download]

If the title left you scratching your beautiful little head, we’re sorry.

 

 

Please let me explain.

After stumbling upon both of these tracks in the very same day, I thought it proper to share them with you. The particular quality or motif that both of these songs share is a very simple concept to understand, however its role may be vitally important to the music industry as a whole. As stated in the title, both of these jams are EDM (Electronic Dance Music) without the ‘D’ or, more simply, Electronic Music.

Yeah, I get it. “EM,” as it shall be called, is most assuredly not a new concept in popular music. Hipsters have been doing it since they started making corduroy pants and fixed gear velocipedes (quintessentially indie way of saying “bicycles”)…and that’s a long time.

Trust me.

However, both of these tracks by artists AFK and Matchbox Orchestra incorporate particular qualities of Electronic Music that are more closely related to those heard in Electronic Dance Music. More often these days we are beginning to witness these electronic sounds pop up in any and every other genre of already established popular music. Instead of boring you with the details of what I mean exactly, I figured it might be more fun if you just listened. Try and tease out these concepts yourself. See if you can understand exactly what we are talking about.

Both “I forget” by Matchbox Orchestra featuring CubeKin and AFK’s remix of “Bride Side” by Protohype and Ras feature a more minimalistic “electronic” approach than most EDM productions. I say this because both artists are EDM producers by trade.

If anything, the two songs sound more like regular old rock jams than anything. In my opinion, this method serves to make the individual breakdowns all the more dulcet and indicative of the emotion the vocalist is trying to convey in their lyrics. Instead of being stagnantly satiated with overwhelming electronic arrangements, they are saved for a time when the song truly NEEDS it.

Good luck getting either of these tunes out of your heads.

1. Protohype – Bright Side ft. Ras (AFK Remix ft. DKS)

2. Matchbox Orchestra – I Forget ft. CubeKin

Who The Hell Is JVMES? [Artist Spotlight]

Music has a funny way of growing on you; It’s an unspoken and innate process defining the thin line between what sounds good and what doesn’t.

Over the past eighteen days, this next release by JVMES or James or JAMESSSSS (I have no idea, the dude spells it differently EVERYWHERE) has been slowly creeping up on me. Unfortunately for this brand new, LA-based producer, his meager following of only three-hundred and eighty-nine SoundCloud followers simply does not carry the proper weight needed to stir the proverbial pot, in hopes of creating waves in the Electronic Dance Music scene.

Furthermore, 389? Are you f*@#ing kidding me??? This dude has got way too much talent for that.

Let’s help a brotha out.

https://soundcloud.com/jvmesmusic

However, this is where we are supposed to come in. 

“Koi Pond” by JVMES is a work of art. Anytime the song falls upon fresh ears (my friends), they enthusiastically inquire as to who the track was by and where they could find it on SC. I assume they are interested in listening to it again. Or probably so they can introduce it to others and claim that they “discovered” the artist themselves.

Posers.

I digress.

Anywho, with no real information on any of his various social media accounts beside two hilariously vague quotes, I don’t really have a lot to go on here. Well, besides the fact that “Koi Pond” sounds the way an orgasm feels.

Yeah, it’s that good.

As for genre, I don’t know…how does “Downtempo Existential Future Ratchet Melodic Bass Chillout” sound?

Good. Who even cares anymore?