tut/breakdown on Big Room House "Festival Bangers"

Perhaps outside the ProducerTech biosphere but I would like a tut/breakdown on Big Room House "Festival Bangers"; I know this genre by its unadulterated commercial slant is not very well liked among the musical gourmets in this community but for others it might be fun to have a go. As it can't be denied the genre is quite popular market wise with plenty of streams, popular events and festivals it will be of extra interest for those of us in pursuit of the elusive ... banger. As a genre Big Room is nowadays stylistically a bit more diverse compared to its early days so a tut could focus on a subgenre with greater appeal to the larger PT audience.

At this point I would even welcome a tut/breakdown in the jocular vein of a musical style "hackneyed pastiche*" and if so I immediately would like to add a similar request for "Hardstyle"!

I suspect the Mainroom courses on ProducerTech could provide some transferable skills for Big Room but I haven't explored that route yet.

* I thought I'd just invented this phrase but it turns out to be a bit of a trope among movie and literature critics...

Yeah in terms of the sound design and mixing skills, you can refer to any of the 'fatter' styles of music, like D&B, Bass Music, Mainroom House, Techno... etc. Seppa, Reso, The Cyborgs all have good pointers in their courses.

As for the arrangement, it's just the same as a lot of other styles only more full on! AMp'd up! Basically with fewer parts and ideas, but way more processing. 

We could have a crack at a Hardstyle course, or maybe a bonus set of tuts for members - it would be fun!

updated by @ptmembership: 11/24/23 06:17:15PM

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Yeah in terms of the sound design and mixing skills, you can refer to any of the 'fatter' styles of music, like D&B, Bass Music, Mainroom House, Techno... etc. Seppa, Reso, The Cyborgs all have good pointers in their courses.

As for the arrangement, it's just the same as a lot of other styles only more full on! AMp'd up! Basically with fewer parts and ideas, but way more processing. 

We could have a crack at a Hardstyle course, or maybe a bonus set of tuts for members - it would be fun!

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Thanks for that info. The possibility of PT 'going hardstyle' makes me giggle nervously! I was only reminded of the existence of hardstyle by the hardstyle "Wham - Last Christmas (HardEditz Remix) (Hardstyle)" reference of @samuelclouston in the Xmassignment 2023 [thread], the accompanying energetic music video obviously having nothing to do with that remix but still showcasing hardstyle's popular appeal.

"Be careful what you wish for" comes to mind because that OTT musical genre has the monster DNA of fast-food and porn. It is interesting that there are not many tutorials (if any) on the major course platforms but there is still a decent ecosystem of samples and presets (with rowdy WAproduction obviously domineering this niche). On Youtube there are some half-decent tuts with a pretty remarkable (what do you know: 'melodic hardstyle') two part [A], [B] series by artist Xonar, others seem to approach this theme as a joke and lack hardstyle pedigree.

Hardstyle and Big Room have always fascinated me as they seems to be huge in Europe & The US, but not in my native UK - I feel like i'd be hard pressed to find a venue or festival that plays exclusively that stuff so I'm quite unfamiliar to it. Is this referring to Martin garrix and Avicii? Or something else?