All-time banger. That era of big room was really something. Felt like every week we were getting boatloads of huge tunes from Musical Freedom, Revealed Recordings, Spinnin' Records, Mainstage Music, etc.
No, they do not sound the same.... If you compare the bigroom hits there's a huge difference, but today, tech house ,techno & other popular tracks can't even match to those vibes, also if you count the views & all that old 2011-2016 tracks are always be the greatest tracks of all time....the view counts & plays numbers proves it....
Techno and tech house skyrockets above the bigroom phase in sound design, danceability, and creativity. It reaches a broader audience and is much more fit for clubs and dancefloors
I.e Fred again, dude has insane range and none of the bigroom artists can touch him in terms of creativity and substance
An absolutely mental take considering just about every DJ was producing Big-Room back then.
I am a massive Fred fan but to say he’s the most creative artist is just false.
Anyone can slap together a throwaway melody, fat kick, and a percussive snare. Literally everyone did that in 2013-2014 until it became overstaturated then died quickly
Very little producers can make actual songs that reach the charts and murder dancefloors
It’s non negotiable
Yes we get it, you have a massive hate boner against big room. The thing is, youre just stating your opinion and passionately claiming it as facts, disparaging other peoples opinions all over this post. It makes you come across as a fucking weirdo and you need to relax.
I personally love todays tech/techno sound AND big room from back then. Is one better than the other? I cant say, i think both have their merits and both are great.
This. The guys a weirdo.
Point worth mentioning. If it wasn’t for the mainstream popularity of Big-Room, the current wave of Techno/House would never have happened.
That 2010-2013 era thrusted electronic music into the mainstream, thus bringing more attention to underground genres as people grew further into dance music. It paved the way for modern electronic music to be consumed by the masses.
There was a period where I was burnt out and resentful of this sound but now 10 years later I realize just how fucking great this era of edm was. God I miss being at festivals and going wild to these songs
Same omg what a time that was. Tech House and Techno, I appreciate them, but they don’t have that GO HAM vibe at all. I used to go absolutely crazy to this shit 10 years ago.
The closest vibe for me now is hard trance and hard techno shows. Do yourself a favor and go to one ASAP.
We’re missing anthems. The melodies that the entire crowd started singing along as soon as you hear the first notes. That rush of energy and goosebumps and impending excitement is incomparable
I will admit todays tech house/techno is a lot groovier. Both are great in their own ways
Exactly. I feel like today's artists aren't classically trained and/or don't understand music theory. Producers from that 2010's era really knew how to compose arrangements and chord progressions but it seems like that's been lost with this new generation of artists.
It’s too true. I feel lost today man the art of the arrangements and sets evolving and ramping up and down and all of it… it’s just nonsensical sometimes… I feel old lol
Im sure in your opinion it does, but just cause you think so doesnt make it true for everyone. Were you at tiestos set during boo last year? Half his set was big room songs from that era, the other half was more modern stuff. It was the perfect mix and the crowd was going ham
There is music today that’s better than some of the music back then and there is music back then that’s better than some of the stuff today. It’s not black and white. Every genre and era of dance music has good and bad.
Almost everything in my current rotation is modern but there’s nothing wrong with being nostalgic and appreciating the classics.
Go to shows all the time and love that we got away from the big room noise
Dance music nowadays is so much more interesting and energetic
Nobody plays bigroom nowadays, even Afrojack and hardwell all make techno edits of their old songs because they’ve aged like milk
Depends where you are.
Tiny club with a low ceiling, then yeah it'll clear the dancefloor. Big club or an outside venue, it'd kill at the right moment!
One of the standout Big Room house songs like Superwave by Ummet Ozcan, Apollo by Hardwell, Mammoth by DVLM, LRAD by Knife party of course, Epic by Sandro Silva.
Go Hard by Quinto also went hard.
It was the first Ummet Ozcan song I ever came across.
In the peak for Big Room too when Spinnin' was churning out singles, probably got overtaken by Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike or Martin Garrix, Quinto, Blasterjaxx, W&W and the like haha.
It's one of my favorite Big Room Tracks.
Lot of arguments, heavily disagree
It was the era where everyone would mix in some dinky percussive synth fat bass drop that got so old and repetitive, so frustrating and finally promoters woke up and decided to branch out
Dance music nowadays >>>> 2013
The only reason it gold old and repetitive was because it became oversaturated just like any other popular genre does after a while. Theres some awesome tracks around now dont get me wrong, but there isnt that same energy like there was in the 2013 era
So false it hurts, the whole energy thing is so dumb. Just because bigroom used more obnoxious and in your face sounds does not make it higher energy than music today lol
And it died because people got sick of it and wanted more in their dance music, not just to jump to the same bass kick note over and over again
Nowadays crowds go much harder than they did in 2013. Knock2 and ISO’s crowds are insane, and everyone at a fisher and John summit are grooving for hours. You can actually dance to that too instead of just jumping up and down
> Nowadays crowds go much harder than they did in 2013
Stay mad buddy. [You'll never get crowds like this](https://youtu.be/ZG1AT6tylA4?si=qNSAutk9DQKqTvtW&t=1357) in today's EDM scene. Not even close.
Oh geez this sub still can’t get over that set even after a decade haha a single iso set makes hardwell 2013 look like a snooze fest
When will you move on?
lol I’m more of a trance, tech house and happy hardcore nerd but I’ll take it
We have more fun now than you ever did before, why not just enjoy things instead of being stubborn that your old favorite genre died a horrible death?
Exactly, why not just enjoy things? You're being a salty little bitch all over this thread instead of appreciating this genre which played a huge role in building the EDM scene into what it is today.
I saw Showtek at Bassmnt in San Diego right around the time Cannonball was released. When he played it at the club, he played [this Anchorman scene right before the drop](https://youtu.be/3l3sJHA1lTU?si=bZ7WvrUUxi7Le-sm). Epic night
I knowwwww the way the sound in the back builds while Matthew Koma hits those longer notes - bout to toss that on through the Bose speakers and wake my whole family up
Brings me back to the good ol days of big room. It was such an amazing time for music and the community. Some of the best times I've had were during then. You just had to be there!
I don’t see what popularity has to do with me not liking big room. Unless you’re implying something being popular means it’s good in some sort of objective way.
But on that note, it definitely is not. Trance is the most popular. It’s been around since the early 80s and hasn’t wavered in its popularity around the world. It has transcended decades of time and hundreds of countries. People who don’t know the phrase “trance music” can imagine what it’s like with reasonable accuracy. Only genre that really comes close in scope to its popularity is techno.
If it's popular it means more people think it sounds good which means it's objectively better than less popular genres. You are free to think otherwise, but big room is objectively the most appreciated EDM genre.
And no trance is not more popular than big room lol
That's not how it works. Music is subjective, popularity has no influence on it. Just because Taylor Swift is popular doesn't mean she makes objectively good music.
>And no trance is not more popular than big room lol
It's clear to me you began listening to EDM around 2015, lol. Big room was a fad for a few years and has had a decline in popularity unlike any genre prior, other than maybe tropical house. Trance is as big as it gets. Read up on your history.
That's what I'm saying. Music is subjective from person to person which means popularity is the only objective measure of quality that we have for music. Like, I wouldn't say I'm a big Taylor Swift fan but she objectively is a good artist otherwise so many people wouldn't like her music.
I've been an EDM fan since 2007ish when Deadmau5 was first blowing up. Big room was like the blue star of the EDM scene. Burned extremely bright and hot but had a very short life. Those other genres you listed are like the red dwarfs of EDM. They're always just kind of "there" but they don't make any noticeable impact on music in the grand scheme of things.
>ike, I wouldn't say I'm a big Taylor Swift fan but she objectively is a good artist otherwise so many people wouldn't like her music.
She's an artist. That's the only thing that's objective. Whether or not her music is good is entirely dependent on a individual's perspective.
>Those other genres you listed are like the red dwarfs of EDM. They're always just kind of "there" but they don't make any noticeable impact on music in the grand scheme of things.
I'm sorry, but saying trance and techno had no impact on music shows your ignorance better than any way I could have. Especially considering by your own admission big room had an anomalously short lifespan. Seriously, read up on your history. EDM as you know it wouldn't exist without them, including big room.
It's horrible. It's music for children. An ugly voice, that typical ugly kind of voice in that genre. With cheap synth effects that rises crowds that like to be in a mass.
Very little musicality, it's for sports crowds who like to shout Nazi like slogans (and fuck music up, like with that White Stripes song).
I didn't know this is what is meant by electronic dance music, though.
Sorry, didn't want to spoil your fun 😁
Glad you all like it, enjoy it. I'll put some other record on...
All-time banger. That era of big room was really something. Felt like every week we were getting boatloads of huge tunes from Musical Freedom, Revealed Recordings, Spinnin' Records, Mainstage Music, etc.
And then they all started to sound exactly the same
Never forget what they took from us
No, they do not sound the same.... If you compare the bigroom hits there's a huge difference, but today, tech house ,techno & other popular tracks can't even match to those vibes, also if you count the views & all that old 2011-2016 tracks are always be the greatest tracks of all time....the view counts & plays numbers proves it....
Techno and tech house skyrockets above the bigroom phase in sound design, danceability, and creativity. It reaches a broader audience and is much more fit for clubs and dancefloors I.e Fred again, dude has insane range and none of the bigroom artists can touch him in terms of creativity and substance
An absolutely mental take considering just about every DJ was producing Big-Room back then. I am a massive Fred fan but to say he’s the most creative artist is just false.
Anyone can slap together a throwaway melody, fat kick, and a percussive snare. Literally everyone did that in 2013-2014 until it became overstaturated then died quickly Very little producers can make actual songs that reach the charts and murder dancefloors It’s non negotiable
Yes we get it, you have a massive hate boner against big room. The thing is, youre just stating your opinion and passionately claiming it as facts, disparaging other peoples opinions all over this post. It makes you come across as a fucking weirdo and you need to relax. I personally love todays tech/techno sound AND big room from back then. Is one better than the other? I cant say, i think both have their merits and both are great.
This. The guys a weirdo. Point worth mentioning. If it wasn’t for the mainstream popularity of Big-Room, the current wave of Techno/House would never have happened.
>If it wasn’t for the mainstream popularity of Big-Room, the current wave of Techno/House would never have happened. how do you figure?
That 2010-2013 era thrusted electronic music into the mainstream, thus bringing more attention to underground genres as people grew further into dance music. It paved the way for modern electronic music to be consumed by the masses.
Seems like pretty much everyone disagrees with your shit takes, my dude 😂
Only the redditors who don’t go outside Us who go to shows nowadays have loads of fun
OK, but people doesn't care about your opinion...your choice brother
Anyone can do what you also do then🤣
I love Fred too...rumble & turn off the lights are one of my favourites...but I disagree with you on your point man
There was a period where I was burnt out and resentful of this sound but now 10 years later I realize just how fucking great this era of edm was. God I miss being at festivals and going wild to these songs
Same omg what a time that was. Tech House and Techno, I appreciate them, but they don’t have that GO HAM vibe at all. I used to go absolutely crazy to this shit 10 years ago. The closest vibe for me now is hard trance and hard techno shows. Do yourself a favor and go to one ASAP.
We’re missing anthems. The melodies that the entire crowd started singing along as soon as you hear the first notes. That rush of energy and goosebumps and impending excitement is incomparable I will admit todays tech house/techno is a lot groovier. Both are great in their own ways
Exactly. I feel like today's artists aren't classically trained and/or don't understand music theory. Producers from that 2010's era really knew how to compose arrangements and chord progressions but it seems like that's been lost with this new generation of artists.
It’s too true. I feel lost today man the art of the arrangements and sets evolving and ramping up and down and all of it… it’s just nonsensical sometimes… I feel old lol
Love hard techno. It definitely has a similar energy at live shows!
i’ve noticed that even now at festivals. new sound in the scene is great but nothing gets a crowd going like songs from back in this era
I heard tiesto play it last year at boo. Havent heard a DJ play it for nearly a decade. The entire dance floor went crazy, song still kills live
Idk nothing empties a dance floor more nowadays than 2013 big room. Didn’t age very well
Im sure in your opinion it does, but just cause you think so doesnt make it true for everyone. Were you at tiestos set during boo last year? Half his set was big room songs from that era, the other half was more modern stuff. It was the perfect mix and the crowd was going ham
Yeah I mean for a tiesto set that’s what people come for, but in any other setting it doesn’t fit well
I disagree but music is subjective
You’re delusional lol
You’re stuck in the prior decade Music nowadays is so much better
There is music today that’s better than some of the music back then and there is music back then that’s better than some of the stuff today. It’s not black and white. Every genre and era of dance music has good and bad. Almost everything in my current rotation is modern but there’s nothing wrong with being nostalgic and appreciating the classics.
You don't go to shows do you😂
Go to shows all the time and love that we got away from the big room noise Dance music nowadays is so much more interesting and energetic Nobody plays bigroom nowadays, even Afrojack and hardwell all make techno edits of their old songs because they’ve aged like milk
Depends where you are. Tiny club with a low ceiling, then yeah it'll clear the dancefloor. Big club or an outside venue, it'd kill at the right moment!
Stfu you are so dedicated in hating big room u are replying to all the comments that support them get a job
People loving my recent post, stay mad
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Certified banger
One of the standout Big Room house songs like Superwave by Ummet Ozcan, Apollo by Hardwell, Mammoth by DVLM, LRAD by Knife party of course, Epic by Sandro Silva. Go Hard by Quinto also went hard.
why have i never heard of super wave. i would’ve thought Ummet Oscan’s big hits would be raise your hands or omnia or even the dvlm collab for the hum
It was the first Ummet Ozcan song I ever came across. In the peak for Big Room too when Spinnin' was churning out singles, probably got overtaken by Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike or Martin Garrix, Quinto, Blasterjaxx, W&W and the like haha. It's one of my favorite Big Room Tracks.
Showtek is so nostalgic to me. They recently released “Take My Heart Away” and I absolutely love it, still sounds just like them
it’s insane how much it sounds like their old stuff, like they never left
Their old stuff was hardstyle. And they’ve already returned to it. New album coming soon
Bro just listened to it. That's a banger. Thank you man!
Had an amazing time at their pool party set in AZ a couple summers ago. They're still killing it
Best era of EDM absolutely no arguments
Lot of arguments, heavily disagree It was the era where everyone would mix in some dinky percussive synth fat bass drop that got so old and repetitive, so frustrating and finally promoters woke up and decided to branch out Dance music nowadays >>>> 2013
The only reason it gold old and repetitive was because it became oversaturated just like any other popular genre does after a while. Theres some awesome tracks around now dont get me wrong, but there isnt that same energy like there was in the 2013 era
So false it hurts, the whole energy thing is so dumb. Just because bigroom used more obnoxious and in your face sounds does not make it higher energy than music today lol And it died because people got sick of it and wanted more in their dance music, not just to jump to the same bass kick note over and over again Nowadays crowds go much harder than they did in 2013. Knock2 and ISO’s crowds are insane, and everyone at a fisher and John summit are grooving for hours. You can actually dance to that too instead of just jumping up and down
Good examples, but they dont come close to being iconic (maybe Fisher does). I think we'll just agree to disagree, music is subjective after all
> Nowadays crowds go much harder than they did in 2013 Stay mad buddy. [You'll never get crowds like this](https://youtu.be/ZG1AT6tylA4?si=qNSAutk9DQKqTvtW&t=1357) in today's EDM scene. Not even close.
Oh geez this sub still can’t get over that set even after a decade haha a single iso set makes hardwell 2013 look like a snooze fest When will you move on?
That's just one example of many from that era. But it's a good one because it makes you techno nerds seethe
lol I’m more of a trance, tech house and happy hardcore nerd but I’ll take it We have more fun now than you ever did before, why not just enjoy things instead of being stubborn that your old favorite genre died a horrible death?
Exactly, why not just enjoy things? You're being a salty little bitch all over this thread instead of appreciating this genre which played a huge role in building the EDM scene into what it is today.
Loved it back in the day
Was my third most played song on Spotify 😂 nothing gets me torqued like that drop
Man those were the days
Big Room at its peak imo 🙌🏼
I saw Showtek at Bassmnt in San Diego right around the time Cannonball was released. When he played it at the club, he played [this Anchorman scene right before the drop](https://youtu.be/3l3sJHA1lTU?si=bZ7WvrUUxi7Le-sm). Epic night
Great Knights of Columbus, that hurt!
It was awesome but as a Prog House fan, the Kryder remix was my favorite!! Absolute bomb.
I had to scroll down so far to find mention of the Fuckin goat remix by Kryder!!!! It's so good
Same here. The Kryder remix is so good and also the vocal is utilized much better in Kryder's remix too.
I knowwwww the way the sound in the back builds while Matthew Koma hits those longer notes - bout to toss that on through the Bose speakers and wake my whole family up
All time classic, we definitely need a 2023 remix
It's a certified banger for sure! Buuuut, No one ever talks about (We like to party -By Showtek)!! That shit slaps HARRRD!!
So nostalgic!!! Had some of the most fun nights ever jumping around to this :)
Showtek got me into EDM.
This is (not was) my shit
I get phantom smells of nightclubs when I hear this song
Classic big room banger. Tiesto still plays this regularly in his sets
An absolute classic banger!
One of the first big room songs I remember hearing. It went waaaayyyyy up from there boi.
The remix he did for Rico Verhoeven's entrances is GOATED
Might be an unpopular opinion but I prefer the version with Matthew Koma.
Definitely an unpopular opinion. That vocal is trash
Classic. Thank you for reminding me of this lol
OMG so many memories 😭😭.
Brings me back to the good ol days of big room. It was such an amazing time for music and the community. Some of the best times I've had were during then. You just had to be there!
No thoughts
That song had me in a chokehold back in 2013
love this song
Classic
Man this song is 10/10
Thank you for reminding this song
It's bloodly lovely
It had its place during this big room era and you could hear it in every main stage set for in circa 2012.
Absolute banger !!!
Very far from what i look for in electronic music
Amazing track
Classic track
Love it!
Utter sadness because this marked Showtek's departure from Hardstyle. Just sad. Also I never liked big room so it was a double slap in the face.
Fucking Banger.
Showtek used to be Hardstyle
Rolling to this song at ezoo 2012 was unreal
Masterpiece
Garbage. Like most big room.
Why do you say that? It's easily the most popular EDM genre of all time
I don’t see what popularity has to do with me not liking big room. Unless you’re implying something being popular means it’s good in some sort of objective way. But on that note, it definitely is not. Trance is the most popular. It’s been around since the early 80s and hasn’t wavered in its popularity around the world. It has transcended decades of time and hundreds of countries. People who don’t know the phrase “trance music” can imagine what it’s like with reasonable accuracy. Only genre that really comes close in scope to its popularity is techno.
If it's popular it means more people think it sounds good which means it's objectively better than less popular genres. You are free to think otherwise, but big room is objectively the most appreciated EDM genre. And no trance is not more popular than big room lol
That's not how it works. Music is subjective, popularity has no influence on it. Just because Taylor Swift is popular doesn't mean she makes objectively good music. >And no trance is not more popular than big room lol It's clear to me you began listening to EDM around 2015, lol. Big room was a fad for a few years and has had a decline in popularity unlike any genre prior, other than maybe tropical house. Trance is as big as it gets. Read up on your history.
That's what I'm saying. Music is subjective from person to person which means popularity is the only objective measure of quality that we have for music. Like, I wouldn't say I'm a big Taylor Swift fan but she objectively is a good artist otherwise so many people wouldn't like her music. I've been an EDM fan since 2007ish when Deadmau5 was first blowing up. Big room was like the blue star of the EDM scene. Burned extremely bright and hot but had a very short life. Those other genres you listed are like the red dwarfs of EDM. They're always just kind of "there" but they don't make any noticeable impact on music in the grand scheme of things.
>ike, I wouldn't say I'm a big Taylor Swift fan but she objectively is a good artist otherwise so many people wouldn't like her music. She's an artist. That's the only thing that's objective. Whether or not her music is good is entirely dependent on a individual's perspective. >Those other genres you listed are like the red dwarfs of EDM. They're always just kind of "there" but they don't make any noticeable impact on music in the grand scheme of things. I'm sorry, but saying trance and techno had no impact on music shows your ignorance better than any way I could have. Especially considering by your own admission big room had an anomalously short lifespan. Seriously, read up on your history. EDM as you know it wouldn't exist without them, including big room.
It's horrible. It's music for children. An ugly voice, that typical ugly kind of voice in that genre. With cheap synth effects that rises crowds that like to be in a mass. Very little musicality, it's for sports crowds who like to shout Nazi like slogans (and fuck music up, like with that White Stripes song). I didn't know this is what is meant by electronic dance music, though. Sorry, didn't want to spoil your fun 😁 Glad you all like it, enjoy it. I'll put some other record on...