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nick
“I enjoy EDM. The melodies appeal to me, and there’s many different genres.
Progressive house is my favorite. Its vibes are uplifting, and that’s what I enjoy about
it. The best way to describe the different genres is how they are designed and how the
songs are structured in terms of what sounds they’re bringing out. Some genres like
progressive house are more heavy on the highs with sub-basses. There’s also hard
style music with straight kick drums and huge big room type melodies. I’ve been to
a few EDM concerts. At Voodoo Fest, I saw some artists like Jai Wolf, and he’s one of
my favorites now. I’ve also seen Steve Aoki at the Metropolitan Nightclub. My friend
Michael and I were on the front row! I had a great ass time, but he was sitting on his
phone and not vibing while I was going crazy. You’re packed around a ton of people
and everyone is just jumping around, having a good time, and vibing with one another.
I think that the EDM concerts are going to come back soon. I follow a bunch of pages
on the internet about it, and everyone’s gung-ho for them to come back. They had a
festival in Taiwan not too long ago called Ultra Taiwan. It was the first big festival that
they had since COVID started. The person who closed for it was Alesso. People were
enjoying his set so much that after he finished performing, people kept chanting one
more song. He played one more song and people went crazy. I’ve tried to make some
EDM myself, but it’s very hard to do. The hardest part is thinking creatively. I can think
of the melodies in my head, but getting it into FL Studio, the software I use to write it
on, is difficult. It’s complicated software and you’re literally building a song from the
ground up. You have to come up with the melodies, design the sounds and pick the
synths that you want to use. Once you have a preset, you have to tweak it because
you don’t want a stock preset. Doing all of that and equalizations plus bringing out a
certain track with a main melody line is really fun, but it’s a lot of work.”