Trap Music. Love it or Hate it?

[vurt]

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[ntom]

I'm actually impressed I know who you are talking about, edIT:

That was actually the only song that I knew by him....never really considered it glitch....But this is notably less glitchier than the posted album.

[bailees7irish]

I don't like trap music as a whole, but there are certain elements in it that I do like.
As you mentioned in your original post, Xenos, some of the leads are unique and stand out. I also like some vocal bits here and there, and the deep basses. Something I absolutely hate about trap is the stupid snares. I hate those rolling, shit hop snares that every trap song has. They sound absolutely idiotic.

[bailees7irish]

I love this and this ...

The Dum Dee Dum video is amusing and the repetitive vocals do want to get stuck in my head (whether that's good or bad, I'm unsure). I can't say that I'd ever sit around listening to that track on its own, but with the video, I admit that i was entertained. So shoot me.

[do_androids_dream]

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Glitch done right. I listened to him a lot in the 90's - 94diskont was my favourite. Me and a friend used to debate whether he really was using broken cd players or recreating the effect.

[mumpcake]

That's interesting because I see so much Trap-related sample packs and soundware out there.

well, that kinda says most about a particular sector sample-pack and soundware business, really. you can pretty much chart the emergence of new genres by the rush of the same set of familiar loop vendors rushing to tweak their snare/kick sound fractionally and issue a new set of loops 3bpm faster than those for their last goldrush fad. closely followed by the preset pack for Sylenth or Massive.

<dons illuminati-repelling tinfoil> i wouldnt be surprised if some of these genres dont actually exist in real life, they're just the creation of a secret conspiratorial cabal of sample and preset developers who are basically just taking the piss. What was that last one, moomintrollism or summat? Nuff said.

The first time I had heard of trap, it was because three trap sample packs came out that very week. I also confess to wondering if it was a real style or a bunch of content producers had colluded to sell the public on the latest sound that didn't really exist.

[stagga75]

Trap Mania !

[Touch The Universe]

Never heard of it, if I heard a song I don't want to know it was trap Same I don't want to hear any mainstream music or even see, watch, or read anything about them on internet. I don't watch t.v for that matter either

[aMUSEd]

Thread title should be "Trap Music. Love it, hate it, or still trying to figure out what it is?"

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

it's no coincidence that trap is one letter away from crap

[aMUSEd]

it's no coincidence that trap is one letter away from crap

That's the next big 'genre' - Trap crossed with Crunk

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

it's no coincidence that trap is one letter away from crap

That's the next big 'genre' - Trap crossed with Crunk

yeh yeh, my naggerz...we'come to da crap-house, yeh yeh da crap-house

[Zombie Queen]

I was rather unfamiliar with the term, after listening a bit, I would tag it under "utility party electronic music". In general I can't tell the difference to any of it, despite a glutton of genre names it gets, psytrance, techno, edm, house, whatever, no disrespect, but it all sound the same to me since 80's when it started to appear (I think). My emotional reaction is neutral, it doesn't bother me, but I wouldn't want to listen to it, as music, I would prefer silence, on the other hand it's way better than classic rock, when it's imposed on you in public radio broadcasts. Which is I think, for two reasons, first, it doesn't pretend to be artsy. Second, it's fairly uncomplicated, which makes it more static noise alike. Someone called it "modern marching music", which I consider an accurate description.

[Karma_tba]

Whoah lol. Looks like not many fans of it here. That's interesting because I see so much Trap-related sample packs and soundware out there, plus so many people I know are into it. I've been hearing it a lot in the clubs. To each their own, I suppose. Then again, I'm apparently pretty liberal in musical taste. I love noise ambient and extreme avant-garde stuff as well , which most folks probably wouln't even consider music.

I believe the reasoning behind the proliferation of trap sample packs is there are multitudes of wanna be "instant" hip hop producers/ artists. Before Trap took over is was "Twerk" which I thought described an action not a genre but the sample companies just re-packaged existing hip hop/ RnB based packs to capitalize on the latest trend. This stuff is aimed at the same demographic that Dope VST's "Beat Machine" was aimed at. Other than the snares there's not much musically to define trap as a genre. It was my understanding that like Gangsta was about gang culture, Trap was about the drug selling lifestyle. It's sad that hip hop is mostly negative, it's basically crack for the 2000's.
Like crack it's crippling another generation.

[Bonteburg]

Closest I've come to hearing anything genuinely fresh in at least 5 years! Trap and similar styles are the only kind of EDM I can even listen to at the moment (WHEN I'm in the mood for listening to music haha!). Anything going in the direction of techno/house/dnb/hip hop/intelligent-this-that-and-the-other from the 90s/2000s has come to bore me very much indeed (with the exception of pure unadulterated noise).

Only thing that tends to annoy me about it sometimes is that it tends to get melodramatic/overegged/'dark'. I'd love to hear a deep-frozen, abstract take on it that doesn't constantly hit you in the face with the musical equivalent of The Gladiators Marching Into The Coliseum.