Blog House

I will have a few comments on this in the next few days, great stuff.
So does this mean I now have a proper Blog + Roster = Bloster?!?!

Any DJ/Producer out there, better hurry and get on board with MAS while the revolution lasts!

“Blog House is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged after (or just before) Justice’s Waters of Nazareth EP in 2006, which provided the genre its distinctive sound. Utilizing non traditional house drum beats, heavy electronic synth bass lines and incredibly dirty and distorted samples, “Blog House” is almost a complete opposite of the typical and stylistically clean French filter disco house that made Paris famous in 1996. This new sound culminating out of Europe has bubbled out of the underground with the help of predominant taste maker mp3 blogs, including Fluokids, Palms Out Sounds, Discobelle, and Big Stereo who compete with each other to post exclusive tracks and remixes. Although Blog House does get released on traditional 12″ vinyl singles, the genre’s popularity is driven by exclusive taste maker DJ/producer reedits and exclusive remixes that are leaked for promotional use. Many see this as a problem in the blogosphere since blogs sometimes rush to post songs, repost exclusive songs from other blogs without permission or recognition, and also sometimes leak songs that are unfinished or of lower sound quality. This is usually done with little regard to what the actual artist or label thinks.

This term was first coined in February 2007 by Baghdaddy (aka Fistfight) who is a member of the Low Bee message board. It was first used in retaliation on his blog when he was surprised that people were not appreciating the other aspects of house music that were coming out or more traditional classic tracks. It has been concluded, although not implied in the definition of blog house, that there is a negative connotation surrounding the usage of the word stemming from the fact that the music is sometimes over hyped on blogs and the people listening to it are scene hoppers. For some, hearing a DJ play blog house signifies that they know very little about the actual history of house music and are just playing, listening and talking about these particular songs since they have gotten hyped from certain taste maker blogs.

For others, Blog House has started an Internet and musical revolution where music enthusiasts and DJs alike are now able to download and DJ the hottest and most in demand house music coming out of Europe. With more and more bloggers and DJ’s using iPod shuffles at their DJ gigs, Blog House is quickly replacing Dirty South Rap as the new music du jour to wile out to at the end of your Saturday night. It should be noted that this term could become outdated when the Neu-rave scene takes over the blogosphere and eliminates its weaker cousin Blog House. This problem is also constantly debated since many of these record labels think that some of their fan base will jump ship when a new sound starts to dominate the blogosphere. This was hotly debated at the French based Institubes web based forum and has now been appropriated as a part of their forum which is subtitled “Enter Scene Hoppers”.

Much, but not all of the music originates from Europe, including songs from the French labels Ed Banger, Institubes, Record Makers, Arcade Mode and Kitsuné. In the UK Blog, House is finding a home on namestay Wall of Sound and on any label that has a Switch remix.

It also comprises a number of edits and remixes done by othe artists such as Mr. Oizo, Feadz, Kissy Sell Out, Van She Tech, Passions, Herve, Drop The Lime, Guns and Bombs, Vyle, Surkin, and Yuksek.

There is now even a monthly dance party in London devoted soley to blog house.”

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