SHILLONG: Stay calm and love EDM…. “If you’re 15 to 25 years old now, this is your rock ‘n’ roll,” Michael Rapino, head of the event promotion company Live Nation, told a reporter for The New York Times.
Excited with large number of youths who make cool moves on the music Iof hip hop Dance Jockeys (DJs), the Grassroots Shillong, has taken a keen interest in this growing trend and has taken an initiative to start up a DJ course in the heart of the city.
Grassroots ‘SCHOOL OF BEATS’-Let your music define you, will be the first step to bridge the gap between the local and the mainstream audience and the course will cater to the needs of anyone interested in DJing in clubs or planning a venture towards music production.
‘Electro’ acts as a catalyst that bridges the jazz-funk underground to the Acid-House mainstream. The ever ending pounding of beats has brought a new genre to the fore that has got countless clubbers dancing the night and sometimes the day away.
The newest of the new rock and roll happens to be a broad class of music comprising dozens of styles and sub-styles and sub-sub-styles of work, from the decades-old genres of house and techno music to their younger offshoots, dub step and dub techno, to a stunning variety of splinter styles, including Rotterdam techno and cosmic disco.
As a class, this music falls under the general heading of electronica, not only because it is made by electronic means, often entirely by, but also because it is intended to evoke the electronic realm.Speaking to The Shillong Times, one of the popular DJs of Shillong Gavian Lyngdoh said that concept of DJ has come a long way in Shillong and people have liked the idea of calling DJs during any marriage or birthday anniversary.
“Even during Baptism people call DJs,” he said while adding that career prospects in DJ is good is that particular youths loves what he is doing.
Gavian did his DJ course from Jazzy Concepts, Delhi and he is happy for the fact that more and more youths of Shillong are undertaking DJ as their career.