The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Dubstep genre · 2002–

EDM trap keeps dubstep’s build–drop and puts trap’s 808-and-hat dialect under it.

Influence
Trap style · 2003–

EDM trap keeps trap’s 808 and hat dialect and drops the verse-rap job for a festival drop.

Influence

EDM trap

style · 2012–

Also called festival trap, trap EDM

2010s festival dance music that lifts trap’s 808 and hat rolls onto a drop-and-build form (Baauer, RL Grime, Flosstradamus). It hears Trap for the drum dialect and Dubstep for the build–drop. Brostep leftover as a wing of dubstep. EDM leftover as a bin. Future bass leftover. Later festival copies stay on this node. Empty extra Received/Given is historically checked.

Listen

  1. Harlem Shake Baauer (2012) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  2. Turn Down for What DJ Snake and Lil Jon (2013) YouTube · Spotify
  3. Watch Out Flosstradamus (2013)
  4. Kanye The Chainsmokers (2014) YouTube · Spotify
  5. Power RL Grime (2014) YouTube

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Dubstep → EDM trap

form and structuremeter and groovetimbre and productionstrength: highwell documented2012–2014recordingdance

Mechanism

EDM trap keeps dubstep’s build–drop and puts trap’s 808-and-hat dialect under it. Strength high. Brostep is a wing of dubstep, not a second parent.

Evidence

Baauer and festival 2012–14 records against the 2000s London drop; Grove on that afterlife.

Debate

Whether this is already EDM, not a style. The drum dialect is trap’s; the form is dubstep’s.

Mediators

artist: Baauer

Trap → EDM trap

meter and groovetimbre and productionstrength: highwell documented2012–2015recordingradio

Mechanism

EDM trap keeps trap’s 808 and hat dialect and drops the verse-rap job for a festival drop. Strength high.

Evidence

Baauer and 2012–14 festival 12-inches; Starr on that recoding.

Debate

Whether this is only a beat tag. The festival school and the name make a node.

Mediators

artist: Baauer