That's what's most important, to have fun and your own creative escape, let yourself go. Really dig your style and there's audience for it too, if you market it like retro gaming music in no time You Tube algorithm will pick on it and connect you to your audience. As I said, as someone who enjoys listening to older soundtracks for games, I see decent amount of people there who are genuinely into it, so do your own thing and enrich someone else's day with it on the way.

All the best my friend.

 

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Attention to all EDM cleanliness keepers, let's dive into 10 years ago hit Wake Me Up...
next is quote from Wikipedia:
Composition
"Wake Me Up" is a folktronica song,[14][15] blending elements of EDM, soul and country music.[16] Musically, it is written in the key of B minor and runs at 124 beats per minute (BPM). It follows a chord progression of Bm/G/D/A – Bm/G/D/F#, with Blacc's vocals ranging from B2 to B4.[17]

Critical reception
Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song a positive review, stating:

"As chart-friendly EDM continues to reach the furthest corners of the globe, staying ahead of the pack can prove a tricky task – especially when more and more acts arrive on the scene turning out mixes with identikit build-ups, tired lyrics and uninspired breakdowns that newcomers to the arena lap up with excitement. Kudos to Avicii then, who has dared to try something a little different for his latest offering. "So wake me up when it's all over/ When I'm wiser and I'm older," featured artist Aloe Blacc sings over dialled-up, country-flecked guitar strums that sound like Mumford & Sons on speed. The jig-along chorus may conjure up images of Brits-on-tour, but to be honest, what summer anthem doesn't?" .[18]

At the end of the year, Rolling Stone listed "Wake Me Up" at number 26 on its list of 100 Best Songs of 2013.[19]
/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Me_Up_(Avicii_song) /

Did you read the quote above? Yes? Then I have a question: did you achive the Avicii level success doing "christall pure EDM"?

PS. Still, I'm grateful for your input here, guys, and I have more "EDM" tracks to show, stay tuned
2PS Nobody noticed the title of my compilation, but it is Pop and EDM from the past to the future

 

He did his usual thing and sparked it with some influence, he was typical Netherlands/Sweden bigroom EDM act and played quite safe there, 90s euro dance influences, Swedish House Mafia influences and timing was right for it, as that genre entered the mainstream US and festivals around there, it was all the rage back than and they marketed it to mainstream quite well. He had whole team of songwriters, producers and etc at that point, se all that was carefully curated to hit the sweet spot. But most of his commercial music did poorly on true EDM festivals, so he always adapted to them, picking more appropriate tracks to go with. But with festivals like Ultra, Tomorrowland and etc, he was at home. But labels that was behind him were after Billboard commercial success, so he dabbled with pop a lot, think those were the years where the term EDM related to that bastardized type of sound.

What you are making isn't EDM or Pop from the past, it's retro game soundtracks from the past, there's no EDM ground to stand on there, only ground you have there is that you are doing retro game thing and if you want that to clash with some EDM, you need to really curb it down a lot, quite a lot, adopt to that EDM style much more and just sprinkle your influences little where it seems appropriate, but without pushing in anywhere near the thing you are doing now as a whole.

Your music could sound like this, if you would just adopt whole EDM way of thinking and use those melodies sparsely... but without doing whole this EDM formula, it's just going to end up sounding like typical retro game soundtrack again.

 

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it reminds me of how there are often musicians who are into some form of classical/orchestral music, but are still younger, just out of music school, and hear some currently popular music. It can be anywhere from club dance styles music, to hiphop, or even metal.

And it becomes some girl playing EDM with a cello, or death metal with harps. It ends up on a "label" and on some of the news websites, and then you never hear about it again. That's what this reminds me of. Played well, decent sound quality, but completely misses the mark.

It's not EDM. If you played this in a club it would create a run on the bar, because it would clear the floor in about 2 minutes.

 

yes, I heard such a project: Harp Twins, they have a channel on youtube and are touring USA, they did covers of some metal songs,
especially I lke One from Metallica and Fear Of The Dark from Iron Maiden

 

As promised, a new EDM demo added: https://on.soundcloud.com/gR5eJ

 

You just need EDM drop, without it, it's just another soundtrack kind of track. That drop will probably define which genre of EDM track is, by the sound of everything, some hardstyle/happy hardcore would probably fit the best.

 

Thanks, for review, 2 tracks left to add to the compilation, once ready, will post them

 

that's me to ...

 

This is the penultimate track of the collection (and soon the last):

https://on.soundcloud.com/dDJHt

 

Nice vocabulary. I learned about this word only recently.

 

You just need to learn spanish

 

This is a 5th track of the hardstyle compilation:

https://on.soundcloud.com/s49b1

 

At last the whole compilation has arrived: