Freaky Deaky

So almost everyone likes Halloween. A lot of people are going trick or treating or passing out candy. Some of the young adults are going to go to parties and be with friends. All of that sounds fun, but what I’d prefer to do is go to Freaky Deaky in Detroit at the Masonic Temple.

Excision, one of the first EDM artists I listened to is performing alongside Doctor P and Sound Remedy. I am not quite sure if I will be going. I would love to, but unfortunately I will probably have plans with my girlfriend and our family’s. Excision’s song Bass Cannon is probably my favorite. It starts out with what sounds like a Decepticon from Transformers. It sounds pretty demonic and it is really fun playing it pretty loud at night with some friends who haven’t heard it. They start to hear the voice and just look at you like it’s the weirdest thing they’ve heard. I love listening to the song in my car where I can really feel the bass right after he says “Fire!” It just hits so hard and it’s awesome. Another good song by Excision that I like is called Robo Kitty.

I know that sounds weird, but his performance in Dallas was awesome for this song. I saw a video of it on YouTube, no I didn’t actually go see him in Dallas. Plus it is cats, who doesn’t like cats and dubstep? I mean come on! Now other than those two, I don’t really know a lot more songs. I do know some of his mixes though, which are really good and I always enjoy a car ride listening to them, or putting them on when I have something to do that will take a while. My favorite mix has to be Shambhala Mix 2015.

Shambhala Mix 2015 link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drOUeqEoT0

 It is just so original compared to the other mixes out there. The beginning is sweet. It’s a phone call to this “Electronic Dance Music Generator” and he’s picking a category of what type of song he wants it to make. After the call ends, he just drops fire. Obviously it wasn’t an actual generator that made his song, he’s just that amazing. I know I said in the last blog that Animals by Martin Garrix was one of the first real experiences with EDM, but I’ve had a lot more experiences before that. Animals was just a song that became a memory of my hockey team. Excision takes me back to my early high school days. Jamming out to some weird sounding voice that fires a bass cannon. For a while I didn’t really listen to Excision because I wasn’t really looking for EDM music, but I’m glad that he’s still out there producing some amazing sounding dubstep. He’s one of the first main EDM artists I listened to and it’s amazing getting to hear his old shit and some of his new.

First Real EDM Experience

I’m in the locker room before a big game. I was playing for Midland High School varsity hockey and the team was trying to get jacked up. Out of nowhere, my teammate, Nolan Nowak, starts asking about this song. He keeps making all these weird noises and none of us know what he is talking about. “Come on! Think!” he yells at us. After a while of us laughing at Nolan looking like a fool, dancing around and making weird noises, Garrett Kraut figures out what song he was talking about. Animals by Martin Garrix.

Eureka! Except Nolan sounded nothing like that song, though he tried. Garrett plugs in his phone to our stereo system in the locker room and we all start jamming out to it. It was my first real experience with EDM music. Then the bass drops and Nowak starts dancing around softly hitting his fists against the side of his head to the beat. Jacob Coffey throws off his gloves and starts doing finger guns to the bass. People are banging on the wooden lockers and dancing around. It was a mad house. Suddenly, Coach Brown walks in, and he is the type of guy that listens to old classic rock and can’t stand the new age music or when a song swears. “What the hell is this?” he asks. “It’s dubstep coach.” Nowak replied, luckily. “Doob-steep?” Brown questions while stuttering to say it. We don’t try to correct him, we just let him call it whatever he wants to call it. Luckily for us, he didn’t care and walked out of the locker room to talk with the other coaches about whatever they talk about before a game. He left us to get focused on our own, which I enjoy more than a coach making us sit there in silence. I still play with some of the guys from that team every now and then and whenever we have a game I will play that song for shits and giggles. I still listen to it every now and then if it pops up in my playlist. It always brings me back to good memories with great friends and the best sport on Earth. It not only reminds me of that, the song helped me get into EDM which has changed my music spectrum drastically. It led me to find other artists that I like to listen to now a days.