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Excitement overflowed your body as you let the beat control you, it ran through your body as you moved your body to the beat. As the bass drums moved through you, your body and your heart was pumping, your blood rushed through you. You allowed your body to capture that moment where tomorrow doesn’t matter. Your hands in the air fist-pumped while your head nodded to the music, this was your night. This was the night of your life. As you danced all night long you let the music take over your body, you let it control you and let it take your mind away and just live that night.
Your bare legs and arms are collided with the sweat-drenching Electronic Dance
Music lovers around you getting closer and closer to the stage as the audience
reached for the skies with their arms raised and heads faced to the ground as
the sound of the disc jockey dragged your body along with their tunes. Body to
body you all moved along, side to side, jumping up and down letting your arms
let loose. Here goes the passion for EDM as that one night was all it took to
let your whole body loose. “You’ll never live if you’re just too scared to
die,” (quoted from Hardwell’s Never Say Goodbye) so why not let the music take
control and don’t stop moving to the beat and forget about tomorrow. Let the
beat take charge and leave it to the dj, leave it to Hardwell.
Hardwell took to the stage on October 1 with his first concert in Manila.
He gave the audience a chance to experience his work live on stage at SM Mall
of Asia Arena. Brought by Big Fish for EDM lovers in the Philippines Hardwell
performed live in MOA.
Hardwell hit the stage in Manila, being known for a world class performer
having performed at Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland and the Electric Daisy
Carnival. He gave Filipinos the chance to move their bodies along to his music.
Even the heat in the Philippines did not stop Filipinos from drenching in sweat
as they piled along to the arena and danced all night long.
Filipinos have become familiar with these djs who perform live at clubs
and have held concerts purely of djs playing all night long. Neverland manila
took to the SM MOA Concert grounds recently on October 3, with performances
from Afrojack, Apster, BassJackers,
D-Wayne, Ferry Corsten, Knife Party, Shermanology, Stadium X and Axell /\
Ingrosso.
Philippines shows a history of being influenced and being mixed with
various types of music where today it is called Original Piilipino Music. The
Philippines have their own original music consisting of bands. The Philippine
music today changed and evolved, its music industry today has a mix of
different types of music being played all around the Philippines. It started
off with “The Indigenous Traditions” from the mountains of the Philippines,
where music was played using different kinds of instruments such as bamboos and
drums. This music was more cultural where songs where for farming, festivals,
marriage, courting songs, games songs etc. “The Spanish-European” came with
secular music, mostly songs to do with religion, being influenced by the
Westerners. The Americans greatly
influenced Philippine music as it became part of the curriculum of the Filipino
students. The Americans lifestyle and culture influenced the Philippines
introducing various types of music and combining it with Philippine music.
Philippine music now has mix of “folk songs, dance tunes, ballads, Broadway
type songs, rock’ n’ toll, disco, jazz and rap.”
One popular genre of music today is EDM which can also include “disco
music, techno music, house music and trance music.” It came to life in the
1970’s and hit the clubs around the 1980s in America. This type of music is
played by djs where they add their own style to the music. Now there are more and more music festivals taking
place here in Manila such as Sonic Carnival, Exception Music Festival and Close
Up Forever Summer, 71017 International Music Festival; The majority of them
playing EDM. Not only are musical festivals and bars are popular today
but clubbing is also well known by many Filipinos, there is even a list of best
clubs to go in Manila such as Prive, 71 Gramercy, Hyve, Republiq, Haze,
Palladium, Time and Black Market /Finders Keepers.
The taste of music has drastically changed
with the Filipinos today, not just listening to Original Pinoy Music (OPM) but
now to EDM, it has definitely taken a turn.Where music was cultural and
simple Philippines took in and adapted to the influences of the Westerners
especially with the American lifestyle, not only do the Philippines play OPM
but they play songs by international artists.
Here goes to the development of the Philippine music industry as they
continue to introduce more and more different types of music today.
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