Subculture: Electro House Raver

The hallway is dark and all you hear are dulcet beats getting steadily louder growing with your anticipation as you walk closer to the entrance. The hallway opens up to a huge ware phratry stuffed with ravers. Strobe lights trick you at first but their inviting energy gets you in the mood. Up front is a DJ mixing continuous beats making the floor pulsate. altogether of your senses are heightened giving everything movement and energy. Electro House is more than just a genre of practice of medicine. This genre has formed into a subculture because of its enormous following, life style, and roots.The electro nominate music lifestyle grabs hold of mostly youth. However race, gender, and socioeconomic status is all ranges. A younger crowd is consumen to this genre because of the fun party scene elusive and the care free attitude the genre evokes. The electro house genre became more than just music in the 2000s. Popular DJs became the main draw for clubs. Typically this kind of part y is called a rave. A rave describes the atmosphere which is dark, has strobe lights and slightlytimes accompanied by a projection of images to go along with the music.Ravers are the people who go to raves. This is the person who evokes the house music lifestyle. Typically a raver is young, dresses fashionably, and sometimes likes the medicates ecstasy, cocaine, and or MDMA. Raves can be known for their drug consumption but not all ravers are like this. An experienced raver normally brings or wears something that glows. If a raver brings glow sticks this allows an opportunity to bound with one in each hand, this is very embark onular while listening to electro house music.The fast paced music allows the ravers to dance rhythmically and can be compared to tribal like movements. In every day slang electro house is called electro. Jargon is also used to describe different kinds of electro house music. A bootleg is a remix made by a DJ who doesnt set out the official legal rights o r permission to make the remix. These kinds of remixes are common and are through by every DJ. Mashups are similar and involve a producer taking elements from different tracks and putting them together to make a new one. black-and-blue labels are twelve inch vinyls released for test pressing containing the bootleg tracks or remixes. Ravers also have a slew of jargon when talking about ecstasy. by and large the terms E, X, or rolls are used and when on the drug most refer to it as rollin. To understand the subculture of electro house the history of house music needs to be established. House music in its first form was disco. The history of house music starts back in 1977 when Saturday Night fever came out. Saturday Night Fever was an instant hit and a surge of young americans went to disco clubs.Disco at this time was a blend of 70s funk, soul music, and rock. virtually of the disco scene was in New York until 1979 when it spread to underground warehouses in lolly and Detroit. Th e creation of house music was an attempt to get listeners hooked. So Chicago and Detroit DJs decided to introduce new techniques in the way disco was being presented. This combined with its separation from New York disco helped it evolve into its own genre. House music became known as more edgier, raw, and incorporated more diverse sounds.Electric keyboards, beat boxers, as well as beat machines helped to refine it into what it is today. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa still have one of the largest house scenes to this day. Plenty of sub-genres of house music has formed since the 1970s. There is acid house music, latin house, disco house, hard house, funky house, chicago house, NRG house, tech house, New York house, and the largest electro house. Electro house grew from house music and has shown its superiority since 2000.Electro house music differentiates from house music with its four to the floor beats, analogue basslines, high pitched leads, usually accompanied by a piano or string riff. The electro house tempo ranges from 120-130 bpm. The word electro comes from the 1980s electro movement by which it was influenced. After the 1980s synth pop sound came the electroclash movement of the early 2000s. This is where electro house was born, particularly from the Detroit techno scene. The electro house genre has become steadily more popular on the Billboard Top 100.The mainstream electro house songs usually feature a remix of a slower original song like Kid Cudi, Pursuit of Happiness later remixed by Steve Aoki to become an electro house anthem. Other notable electro house DJs are Benny Benassi, Daft Punk, Crookers, David Guetta, Deadmau5, Justice, Klaas, MSTRKRFT, Spencer & Hill, and The Bloody Beatroots. Electro house musics popularity has been on the rise since 2000. You pipage has allowed this genre to spread because unknown DJs know have an effective platform to showcase their talents.Electro house ravers have a belief brass similar to the di sco era. Both groups of young adults want to escape their problems and live in the present. Their intertwining beliefs stem from house evolving from disco. Electro house makes it their own by taking it to a level of embracing who you are. An electro house raver isnt easy to define because they embrace who they want to be. When you walk into a rave you will see some people dressed in halloween type costumes such as angel wings and bright neons or others in regular street clothing.You dont have to wear a particular type of outfit to fit in. Electro house lovers value this because its about the music. The drug ecstasy is widely embraced for this reason. It ever so the raver to unwind and leave behind their troubles. Disco in the 70s and electro house of today both allow an escape for their generation. This is also why electro house has such a wide range of youth followers. Theres no pressure to be rich or be a certain race. Where ever you are from and what ever you do electro house wi ll embrace you.