Reference tracks for Dance music

[Joe_caithness]

Listen to some songs and find some you like the song of? pretty simple really! YOU have to make the call on your reference material and have an indepth aural relationship with them!

[chopstickkk]

"Honor Roll"/Great Sounding Dance/Electronic Digital Masters

I asked about this a while back.

I'm still using this... James Blake - Give A Man A Rod (Second Version) by BOILER ROOM on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

Loud. And clear.

[Joelistics]

I suggest you familiarize yourself with the difference in aesthetic between the subgenres in electronic music. A Villalobos record isn't supposed to have the same aesthetic as Deadmau5 track and Ed Rush n Optical go for a different sound than Skream. Listen to soundchoice, frequency balance, dynamics and treat the subgenres like different genres in themselves..

[Waltz Mastering]

Originally Posted by Joelistics

I suggest you familiarize yourself with the difference in aesthetic between the subgenres in electronic music.

+1 - Could be anything from Kraftwerk to Skrillex.

Here's some popular albums to start with and more in the comments section
The 30 Greatest EDM Albums of All Time | Rolling Stone

[Red Mastering]

for deep house - Osunlade and
Jazzanova (not everything is deep house obviously)
that would be Sonar Kollektive in general - great sounding stuff

[JTransition]

Originally Posted by Waltz Mastering

+1 - Could be anything from Kraftwerk to Skrillex.

Here's some popular albums to start with and more in the comments section
The 30 Greatest EDM Albums of All Time | Rolling Stone

I just noticed that I mastered an album on that list.

[ONDRAY]

That 30 Greatest EDM albums list is pretty good. However, when mastering, since my background DJ'ing / producing EDM, I hear the track I'm mastering and a track will come to mind that might mix will with it, and so I use it as reference.

I don't really have one track I use for EDM references, they're always different. The key is using a track from a label or producer that puts out quality productions and using the wav file. I rarley use soundcloud or mp3's as references.