Lady Bee - Sweet Like Chocolate/Murda Dem - YOUTUBE

So I have really started to lose interest in the Dutch house movement as most of it started to sound the same, it became stale and boring (in my opinion). That entire portion of dance music started out with so much diversity, lots of great bootlegs and inspired so much influence into pop music. The big hits we got from Flo-Rida, Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez, Rihanna etc.. most of that was grounded in Dutch house. Afrojack, Sidney Samson & Chuckie were the big movers and shakers with the iconic Dutch house sound. So I am a little taken back by a unique take on Dutch house with a DJ/producer from Amsterdam named Lady Bee. Here are 2 tracks she is giving us one called "Sweet Like Chocolate" which is a huge nod to the sound that made Afrojack so big, lots of hard drums and catchy reverb synth riffs. The second track "Murda Dem" slows down Dutch house and gives us some Moombahton, which really is just slowed down Dutch house LOL (oh well). I am more of a fan of the first track, as the second doesnt offer up much in the world of innovative Moombahton. Both tracks are solid and I have a feeling if she keeps upping her game we might just hear a lot more from her in 2013.

What Is TRAP House Music?

Hey everyone! Ok so one of the most asked questions I get is "what is this new style of music you are playing, it sounds like a crazy form of hip hop?" or I get people asking me what TRAP HOUSE is when I mention it on Twitter or Facebook. I thought I would take this time to give you a decent explaination LOL

As many of you are familiar with Dubstep and Moombahton became very popular forms of EDM (electronic dance music) over the last couple of years. There is an offshoot to those flavors and it sort of happened organically, Trap House. 

Trap house is a combination of several styles of music, first ingredient, Crunk rap beat formula. The tempo and beat combinations are the same with slightly different pitching to the vocals (if it includes any vocals or samples). Next flavor, Dutch house, using chord progressions from Dutch house adds the electronic sound to the bass'd out beat patterns. Last drop, Dubstep, the bass and wobble can sometimes come from the Dubstep sound, or even Dub in general, its usually a very all encompassing bass element. It sounds very confusing but in fact when it comes together its very simple sounding and to the unknowing ears it might sound like a hip hop instrumental with some strange noises LOL. 

I happen to love this new style, it can be manipulated and played with quite a bit, below I will include some standard examples of Trap house music for you guys! Expect to hear a lot of this from me over the next few months included in my sets... thanks!