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Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of
- cornflakers 14y agothis site has been such a wicked hit at both the office and the party scene, whoever came up with this is genius, thanks for making my musical tastes in such a quick, fun and easy to use package!
- shawnjanas 14y agoGlad you are enjoying it.
- parkan 14y agocreated: 2 hours ago are sockpuppet accounts frowned upon around here?
- codeulike 14y agotalking about what the devs are planning and also giving rave reviews in the same thread, huh?
- grechen 14y agoDid you make this?
- shawnjanas 14y agoYeah I did.
- grechen 14y agoI love the concept! When I first got to the site, I figured everything out easily, except I found myself wanting an explanation of what it was. For example: "Listen to music from up and coming EDM artists." or "All the top EDM hits in one playlist." Something to give me a definitive idea of what it is I'm using, and maybe explain where the music comes from.
- nodrama 14y agoif you multi-click the timeline, the current time will change to NaN:NaN. And why can't you change the current playing position?
- fotbr 14y agoNice concept, seems well done too. Any chance you could add trance in addition to house, dub & dnb in the future?
- shawnjanas 14y agoI am planning on expanding the genres in the near future.
- bravoyankee 14y agoKeep on improving. You've done great. Make sure you monetize it too.
- patrickk 14y agoNice alternative to http://www.di.fm/ http://www.di.fm/ and Grooveshark.
- shawnjanas 14y agoNever heard of di.fm. Thanks for the share!
- vyrotek 14y agoThis kind of blows my mind. They've been around for 13 years and do live broadcasts weekly from famous DJs. You're in for a real treat :)
- sbarre 14y agoSlightly hyperbolic link title, but great website nonetheless.. I also hope for an expansion of genres in the future
- aware2 14y agomeh.
- megablast 14y agoDo many people listen to electronic music a track at a time? I only listen to mixes, which can be up to 2 hours at a time. Essential mixes are great for this.
- k-mcgrady 14y agoEssential mixes are great but I still buy a lot of single tracks (from Beatport) and create my own playlists in iTunes. Occasionally I find myself listening to single tracks (usually on YouTube) of newly released stuff I like.
- cornflakers 14y agowouldn't a playlist feature be awesome on this site, if you like what you hear tack it to a list and show it off to your buddies or go back to it to buy the song or w/e.... thoughts?
- k-mcgrady 14y ago+1 for this. I'd happily pay for that feature alone. Even just a simple starring system to keep track of songs I liked.
- hoka 14y agoconnecting your soundcloud account is probably the quickest way to do this since that's where the music is from
- grechen 14y agoI agree, I instantly thought of three people I wanted to share a song with. Also, I know I would want to customize my experience, because I don't like all electronic music.
- hoka 14y agoEMs are great, and I've listened to ~30 of them, but I feel like I'm 'out' of mixes to listen to given what my tastes are. My tastes are definitely pretty diverse, too. I've been hitting youtube for mixes, and you'd be pleasantly surprised at the quality. Goingquantum is very good.
- harel 14y agoNice, first track already a success. Thank you.
- jmonegro 14y agoSurprised to see the site worked on my iPhone. You must definitely need to make a responsive/mobile web version!
- shawnjanas 14y agoHTML5 ftw! In the workings.
- k-mcgrady 14y agoThis is great thanks for building it. Where do you get the music from?
- shawnjanas 14y agoSoundcloud
- cmsd2 14y agohow is the music licensed?
- shawnjanas 14y agoAll music is produced by independent artists and streamed off of soundcloud.
- Deutscher 14y agoThe site doesn't work nicely with on-demand plugin usage like click-to-play or flashblock, although it is possible that I could be doing something wrong.
- pdog 14y agoI like it! The site works great on the iPad as well. I understand you're sourcing the music from SoundCloud. Is it manually curated? Please share how you built this!
- hoka 14y agoIt's a little early for EDM here, so I'll give it a try in a bit. Care to share what it's built in, what your inspiration was, if it's open source/are you looking for help, etc? I'm curious if you curated the lists or if there's some AI on the back end.
- bulletsvshumans 14y agoIs it me or is it not possible to adjust the volume on their player? I'm using standard iPod headphones right now, and even with my system volume turned down to its lowest setting the output is too high.
- shawnjanas 14y agoGood to know. I will add a volume adjuster.
- engtech 14y agoThat's another feature that makes this "better than soundcloud" because they don't provide a volume adjust on their site. Really annoying for those times when I've been playing soundcloud in the background with some other audio source in the foreground (like a video game, or even just mail notifications going beep)
- codeulike 14y agoThey do, but its in the top-right corner of the page. Took me months to notice.
- engtech 14y agoYou're awesome, thank you. I would have never found that. We're so conditioned to look for the volume UI to be near the play button.
- cornflakers 14y agoyeah agreed, i have an in with some of the devs on this - the volume slider was a secondary feature and is on the list last time i heard, stay tuned (haha) for the next release,
- louthy 14y agoI click on 'House' and it plays Dubstep, and then cheesy trance, followed by more of the same cheese. It's just pop-music basically. I don't mean to bitch, but to claim "Discover the best Electronic Dance Music you probably have never heard of" - and then be presented with pop-music is a little disingenuous. Where's the underground genres? Tech-house, minimal techno, dub techno, electro, etc...
- otaku888 14y agoThere is nothing underground about Tech-house unfortunately. 6ft under would be a blessing though.
- louthy 14y agoWithout wanting to get into genre wars, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. There's a brand of music at the moment calling itself 'tech house', but it's basically also pop-garbage like the stream from the OP. Tech-house as a term has been bastardised in the same way as 'trance' in the mid-90s. There's still some amazing stuff out there though, but you need to dig for it. Unfortunately I don't think the OP site is going to help if it purely filters tags on Soundcloud (if you're really unlucky you'll hear some of my tracks, ha!). Some real tech-house classics: Callisto - Resistance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THPQP0-yK54 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THPQP0-yK54 Inner City – Ahnongay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0rhmECo_Xc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0rhmECo_Xc
- cornflakers 14y agothis link said nothing about providing 'tech house' see title for 'electronic dance house' which would show your distaste for music 'popular' enough to be used in a large dance/rave setting
- louthy 14y agoI'm sorry, I don't follow your rambling sentence. My 'tech house' comment was purely an example of alternative genres which are not covered by this site. The web and media is full of the kind of garbage streamed on this site. There's a real gap in the market in my opinion to nail the underground electronic music scene. Everything from leftfield electronica to techno. Over the past 7 years or so I've seen the underground house and techno scene in London become so unbelievably huge. Which has just meant that opportunists jump in and create generic and bland versions of the music that I love. Over the past 3-5 years its gone completely mainstream and the kind of garbage you hear in the charts is the same as from the OP. So it's not presenting me (personally) with anything. I'm personally interested in a way to promote the better underground artists out there without having to hand pick each. I don't have a solution for this unfortunately. I was hoping that the OP link would have been it. This is why I was disappointed. Because there are still lots of incredibly talented producers out there being totally buried by the torrent of sh*t that you hear these days purporting to be "house music" or "tech house" or "dubstep".
- engtech 14y agoSo under the hood, it is just random tracks curated from existing blogs using their soundcloud pages? http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/ http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/ http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass http://soundcloud.com/housemusic http://soundcloud.com/housemusic So I guess the next genres to be added are: -Electro.NET -Moombahton.NET -GlitchHop.NET -TrapMusic.NET -FutureGarage.NET -HardDance.NET
- shawnjanas 14y agoEssentially yes
- engtech 14y agoI'm not knocking you for using those sources btw, that's a decent way to ignore the hard part of a problem to get to a minimum viable product -- plus licensing tracks is soundcloud's problems. Soundcloud is also ripe for disruption because their interface of overlaying comments on the waveform while playing tracks is at best distracting and at worst causes my web browser to crash all the time. When listening to soundcloud I use this bookmark to turn off comments on the page: javascript:(function(){$("a[class='comments-toggle']").click();})(); --- Do you have any additional filters on your sources, or are you straight-up playing the streams as-is? I'd suggest putting in min/max song lengths (to strip out the 2min previews of tracks that sometimes get posted). Although I think your sources are clean enough to handle that. You probably want a 15 min maximum to skip over mixes that sometimes get posted (or better yet, give a playlist for listening to continuous mixes) If the soundcloud api provides favourites you could use that as an input as well. --- You could pretty much create a simple version of last.fm by using a "similar artists search" and then mutiplexing the individual soundcloud pages for artists. So you could have a "sounds like Skrillex", "sounds like High Rankin", "sounds like Knife Party" etc where all it does is randomly play tracks from similar artists.
- shawnjanas 14y agoThe only filters I have now are tracks larger than 10 minutes since I wanted to avoid including long mixes for now. Never thought about tracks possible being previews. I will look into that as well as thanks for the suggestions.
- alexgaribay 14y agoVery nice site. Very effective and simple to use. I'm sure you'll expand to add more killer features :)
- j_s 14y agoI was listening and thought 'hey, I actually like this track' (rather than just being something to listen to) but there was no 'buy' or 'like'/'thumbs up' etc. Thanks for this site!
- cornflakers 14y agothere is a tweet/share on FB that is how i track the tunes im like 'holy smokes' too until the playlist feature is released
- iconfinder 14y agoDubstep, DnB, house ... Why only these 3 genres, most of the top djs (http://www.djmag.com/top100 http://www.djmag.com/top100) play trance, deep trance and electro. Seems like a weird choice to me.
- cornflakers 14y agoits just a proof of concept and i think the devs are aiming to dump tons of content (that can be accessed within license) into the sleek and efficient usability of turnchannel.
- shawnjanas 14y agoCurrently working on playlists and expanding genres. Follow @turnchannel or add me on skype: shawnjanas to be notified! Thanks for all the great feedback!
- fumar 14y agoYou did a great job with the Title,"Discover the best Dance Music." This is a critique on your music selection and not your project. The music under your "House" label was not house at all. It was pop-dubstep. If your going to entice music lovers, you will have to get the genres right. Know your target. Personally, I was excited, then very quickly disappointed. I am always looking for some quality house to listen while working. *nice deep house, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpopObJysQ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpopObJysQ4
- shawnjanas 14y agoCurrently using pre curated tracks from http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/ http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/ http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass http://soundcloud.com/drumandbass http://soundcloud.com/housemusic http://soundcloud.com/housemusic I agree the genres are off. Will be working on improving them.
- bravoyankee 14y agoTHIS! I like the project though. Real initiative here, but also great advice that must be heeded.
- kin 14y agoHow exactly are you determining the next track? I like House and I disliked the first 5 tracks. How do you determine that I've never heard of it? Is there anything Pandora-like to keep track of what I like and dislike?
- jeanhules 14y agoMeh. I prefer http://www.AudibleCoffee.com http://www.AudibleCoffee.com
- UnFleshedOne 14y agoNice! Now if anybody came up with a way to setup system-global shortcuts so that I don't have to go back to the browser page to pause or skip a track...
- teeja 14y agoSounds great. SC -badly- needs curation like this, and the ultra-simple interface is fine so long as the music is too. Good luck!
- tome 14y agoI can't skip forward within the tracks on Firefox 6.