Okay, so you may know I’m inter­ested in start­ing a band. I fig­ured I’d give ya’ll a lit­tle inspi­ra­tion as to what I was envi­sion­ing. I’m nor­mally inclined to make hip hop, but my favorite genre is elec­tro house. What I really want to make is elec­tro house / hip hop / funk / elec­tron­ica / dance music.

On the pop­u­lar side of things, the new Black Eyed Peas album, “The E.N.D.” and LMFAO’s album, “Party Rock,” are very sim­i­lar to what I want to make. I included a few songs by them to pro­vide an exam­ple of some of their music. LMFAO has a lot of bet­ter songs for exam­ple, but I picked this one because it’s mostly clean.

Black Eyed Peas — I Gotta Feeling: 

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LMFAO — La La La: 

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As far as elec­tro house music is con­cerned, look up MSTRKRFT, Jus­tice, Daft Punk, Bloody Beet­roots’ “Romb­o­rama,” and other sim­i­lar acts. As far as electro-funk, Chromeo is the best exam­ple I can think of, along with DJ Mehdi.

Any­ways, there isn’t much, or maybe even ANY Chris­t­ian music in this mar­ket. Jus­tice is some­times listed as Chris­t­ian, but I don’t really see why. The clos­est I can find in the Chris­t­ian music world is Fam­ily Force 5’s new remix album, “Dance or Die with a Vengeance.” Also, the upcom­ing Wash­ing­ton Projects album, titled “Light Up the Dark,” will be cool, but not really include as much elec­tron­ica as I plan on using. For posterity’s sake as well as to big up the Wash­ing­ton Projects, here’s their lat­est single.

Wash­ing­ton Projects — Light Up the Dark: 

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