Breaking Genre Boundaries

Kosheen: Guilty (Plastician remix)

This track has elements of tecnho, house, trance and all with a dubstep framework. I think the lyrics and the voice especially bring a really interesting quality to the music. This track has sparked ideas about how I would shoot the music video...


These images roughly represent my inital ideas as to the way I would imagine the video... the mise-en-scene would be low key lighting, dingy, compact like a club. I can imagine a lot of disorientating shots, hand held, and flashing lights of all colours to give that feeling of another world: escapism. I'd like to do a video that was slightly unconventional and including things like point-of-view shots, and blurred camera, to give a sense of the fast-paced music.



Calvin Harris: I'm Not Alone (Doorly Remix)....La Roux: In For The Kill (Foamo's Skream Remix Bootleg).....Timberlee: Gunny Gunny (Schlachthofbronx Remix)

Genre Focus: Dance Music

How does dance music break down?
Dance is a huge genre that has evolved dramatically over the years. It is defined as any music that one can dance to, but there are specific sub-genres that we can break it down into from the past 50 or so years:

• 1950s: Rock & Roll
• 1960s
• 1970s: Disco (& Funk)
• 1980s: New Wave, Funk, Acid House,
• 1990s: Eurodance, Progressive House, Techno, Hip
• 2000s: Electropop

I consider dance music to live more in the underground scene, and these genres to be more poppy. Some of the most popular upbeat genres at the moment includes Drum & Basss, Junglee, Hardcoree, Trance, UK Garage, and Electro.

Underworld: Born Slippy .NUXX

This is a very famous example of 90's techno-trance...

Many sub-genres of electronic dance music have evolved. Speed Garage, Bassline, Grime and the Reggae-inspired Dubstep (ska) are all sub-genres of UK Garage, a genre I'm very interested in as it is strong in North London.

Brandy & Monica: The Boy Is Mine (garage remix)


Recently, electro dance music from artists such as Lady Gaga, Dizzie Rascal and La Roux has dominated the charts. I really like the drum and bass remixes of electro tracks at the moment, making them more dancefloor-suitable and less poppy. Here are two examples of successful (in clubs) tracks that are remixes of La Roux's latest hits:

La Roux: Bullet Proof (DJ Zinc remix)


La Roux: In For The Kill (Skream remix)

The remixes of the songs including deeper basslines give the songs a certain depth that make them perfect for clubs, and less of a sing-a-long song. I think tracks like these two would be really interesting to do as a music video, as they have a distinct darkness about them which acts as a starting block for a video's overall feel: the story could build on this threatening, adrenalin-like feeling.