Beats in the Trap: Hip-Hop or EDM?

An electronic subgenre merging characteristics of hip-hop with house and bass music has been gaining momentum over the past year. D.C.-based festival Trillectro highlighted it, but the true starting ground is Soundcloud, where producers, both established and aspiring, drop mixes under the name of “trap.” Trap, a fusion subgenre in [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:37:52-05:00February 14, 2013|

The Trillectro Festival: Merging Hip-Hop and Electronica in Washington, DC

What is “trillectro”? Likely a soon-to-be-trending EDM subgenre, “trillectro” was coined by Modele “Modi” Oyewole, Quinn Coleman, and Marcel Marshall. The three, behind a Boston College radio show and, later, blog DCtoBC.com, have moved beyond, taking the term “trillectro” and escalating it into a full-on single day festival – the [...]

By |2023-11-24T07:41:40-05:00August 7, 2012|
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