I wouldn't say carbon copy.. but there are a few throwbacks in some instances.sjm wrote: I actually find modern EDM pop sounds pretty much like a carbon copy of the 90s Eurocheese stuff, just with newer synths and more risers. Which of course aren't the artists you were listing. If you listen to some early mid-90s cheese, it's formulaic in the extreme.
I think early Brostep, in relation to the stuff I listed.. has a lot of the elements of that older, heavier Electronic stuff. Unfortunately.. it's devolved to a point now, where it just sounds comical. Like a Looney-Toons cartoon soundtrack.. with each new track trying to outdo the last, with a ridiculous array of wobble squabbling back n forth..
But yeah.. the early, actual EDM (not the stuff I listed) is very similar to the more modern stuff. I think once the industry locked in on something that started actually making money.. more artists joined in, and a long lasting $$$ making formula was born...
...which is all pretty much Disco's fault, because that started it all.