This right here is what you could call a "quality blog". And with music, especially electronic music, it's not all about quantity, which is what the major blogs want you to think considering how many tracks they post, but the quality of the music chosen. And to better appreciate electronic music and everything connected to it, you have to take in the information slowly. That's why I'm here. I'm giving you that, and anything else out of my thoughts and opinions that I think blog-worthy. And I'm sorry but even though I know that almost all of you like the blog run by someone or other just talking about their mundane lives and how they just got the new blah or went to bleh or did blargh or how bleh makes them happy and blah pisses them off, I won't bore you with all the minute details of my unimportant life. So follow this blog, unfollow it, like the posts, reblog them, praise them, hate them, hate me, love me, do whatever you want, but most importantly, enjoy.

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Breazu Studios Presents, Ep. 136

Romanian is a beautiful language. A while back, artists were making great songs, but then that changed when they decided to sing in English. A lot of them fall short — there’s definitely a language barrier and the accent is always detectable and there isn’t much going for the music either: it lacks the complexity of other styles of electronic music and is frequently simple and repetitive. Some of them however hit the mark, bringing tracks that are more complex and also aren’t much affected by the accents, like Edward Maya’s Stereo Love. Still, the thing that irks me is that, in Romania, on a 40 song chart, only 4 of the songs are sung in Romanian, and one of those has the chorus sung in English while another is half Romanian, half English. So on a 40 song Romanian chart, only two of the songs are fully sung in Romanian. English might be a universal language, and I understand that musicians might be trying to spread their music to the world, but they need to understand this: Music is universal. It doesn’t matter what language music is in — as long as the song is a quality song with quality lyrics and the artist put hard work into creating the perfect beat and putting together the perfect strings, winds, synths and other elements, their music will be heard by anybody. So I wanted to share with you one of those two songs, a track combining various elements of electronic music styles like electro, house, and dubstep from Bogdan Popolag with the deep voice of Cezar Stanciulescu (A.K.A. Junkyard) providing intelligent, ironic, and humorous lyrics. The two just recently joined together to form the band R.O.A. (Rise of Artificial) after Cezar left his previous band Suie Paparude, and in November they released this track, Ne Place. “Ne place” translates to English as “We like it,” and the band actually made an english version of the track called We Like It. Sadly though, the English version of the track sounds like they just put it through an online translator — it has simply lost its meaning and charm, the charm that all Romanian artists lost when they decided to sing exclusively in English. This, however, is the original track in its full beauty. R.O.A. - Ne Place.

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ElectroWhat? - Dub

The techniques varied from artist to artist and piece to piece, but main features of the genre were adding extensive echo, reverb, and delay. The music was sometimes dubbed over with vocals and instruments from the original Reggae track or other tracks, and many Dub tracks feature electronically generated sounds (think back: these would have never existed without Musique Concréte and Elektronische Musik) and distinctive instruments like the Melodica. For Dub artists, the mixing desk was an instrument in itself, and with it, they created a music that influenced almost all music that emerged from then on, including Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, and Disco. Without Dub, there wouldn’t have been House, and there wouldn’t have been Jungle, Drum ‘n’ Bass, or Dubstep.
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown (1976) 

Dubstep vs. Jazz: Eerily Similar Genres

Although I dislike most Dubstep, here is a nice post by my friend Mariana comparing it to Jazz in both musical and social aspects. Check it out!