Anybody listen to current dance music?

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I never had a lot of money to purchase music, I always had more important things to do, like paying for food. Therefore, a lot of the 1990s electronic, techno, house, latino house, that I loved when I was young lives only in my head. I compensate by listening to contemporary dance music, mainly on Sacramento's Hot 103.5 (hot1035radio.com) which is bizarrely owned by a media conglomerate known for canned SPANISH radio (Hot 103.5 is only one of a handful of English language stations they own). Honestly, most of the stuff isn't that great, but it helps me relive my youth. The only stuff I REALLY like is the stuff inspired by EDM and synthpop like Hyper Crush (liked Work Me, Bad Boys isn't that great) and Bob Sinclar who is a French DJ who came out of the 90s Euro rave scene (Rock the Boat, Place About to Bust). There are a couple English artists, such as Elie Gulding, who draw upon techno and who are moderately enjoyable. Usher, who once was a R&B singer, is doing dance now, and I really liked Scream. I'm almost 38, and I think I'm getting old. What's really awful is this station's regular playlist, it's geared towards young adult women who work in state offices and it's boy bands and stuff like that.

i have xm radio...and i listen to the BPM station the most.
so i love artists like Deadmau5, Skrillex, Kaskade, Spencer&Hill, Tiesto... pretty much all of them.

I agree sirius xm is da bomb and I love all the station except those in my subject line.
I pretty easy at naming a song by the first lyric.
I guess thats a gift

Generally I do like it. Back when I had an HD Radio head unit in my car, there was an HD2 station on a local Top40 station that was all dance music. It was a 50/50 split, that station. Half was super lame like, Rihanna club mixes, and half was like, stuff I liked, ala Eric Prydz, some 90s eurodance, etc. Good thing was it was commercial free (besides telling you briefly the station's name) bad thing was my car's head unit didn't in general have a good tuner, and I didn't have an antenna amp, so the station would cut in and out almost constantly, being an HD radio station, it's like the new DTV stations, where it either comes in or doesn't, what happens is instead of static, there's a data buffer to a point, but then it just cuts out.

BTW, HD Radio in my opinion is fantastic technology. All you need is, if you got an aftermarket head unit on your car, to buy a tuner to plug into the head unit, or buy a radio with a tuner built in. I bought a cheaper less powerful radio because it had the tuner built in. Was $80 at Walmart, and installing a car radio yourself is ridiculously easy (just match wire colors and use crimp connects or even wire nuts, or hell, electrical tape) if you don't cut the wires and spend the $8 on a harness, and then when you sell the car, you can plug the stock radio back in. But, anyway, HD Radio, allows simulcasting of 4 stations per frequency. So here, the station I was talking about, has it's regular FM station, and always, the HD1 station is a mirror of the regular FM broadcast, but in HD quality, but then the other stations can be anything. For this in particular, HD2 was dance music, and it was a mirror of an AM station in FM quality. But, HD Radio is generally advertisement free, and it comes in clearer than normal FM (when it comes in) but with the caveat I said above. Overall, it's a good buy, I think, and almost all HD stations (and regular FM supports this, too) broadcast id3 tags over the air, my head unit in particular allowed you to plug an iPod in and when the iPod was plugged in, it'd transfer the tag list to your iPod (unfortunately it didn't sync with my Creative Zen at all.) If you don't wanna do the car radio thing, there's many portable HD Radio receivers around, that you could plug into a home stereo or a car radio with an FM transmitter or tape adapter. Basically it's poor man's satellite radio, good stuff.


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I've posted threads on Nadia Ali, and she's about my favorite in current EDM for vocalists.
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I like other stuff more, like especially 90s eurodance, and eurobeat and italodisco, but this stuff is still wonderful music. It's about the only thing made today that's still listenable. OH! And Edward Maya with "Stereo Love" I'm glad that song took the world by storm. But yes, quite like this kinda music.

Are we talking about electronica, or just the electropop stuff such as passion pit?

Love IIO (aka "Poetica"). The girl lead singer has a sultry voice and an exotic look that makes it.

Like Hot Chip "One Life Stand".

Over the last year I've been listening to Passion Pit, Grimes, Crystal Castles, Friends, John Talabot, M83, Niki and the Dove, Icona Pop, Chromatics, Purity Ring, Ellie Goulding and Little Boots.

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Also, like the original poster I don't like to spend huge amounts of money on music. Up until earlier this year I was paying on average about $50+ per month for new music, which didn't even cover the steadily growing collection of pirated music I had accumulated since I didn't have enough money in my budget to pay for it all. Then I signed up to Spotify and sold all of my 500+ CDs. Now I only pay $12.99 a month and I can play all the music I like, anywhere I like. Recently I even did a 13 hour roadtrip and just listened to Spotify the entire journey. It changes how you consume music too. Everything is far more accessible and instant. Someone recommends you a track while you're out, and you can just instantly play it on your phone. I only regret that I spent so much money on acquiring music the old way before streaming services became ubiquitous.

I prefer physical copies. Also most of the streaming services only have so much. There is so much more whether band camp has it or it's from a different country, people will always need physical copies.

Fair enough, but I'd rather spend $120 on music a year than over $600 and pirate the rest.