I’ll look into getting some quantitative data on what percentage of digital music sold has a greater than 195 bpm, etc. But the first talking points that come to mind are:
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Rekordbox analysis runs up to 255 BPM, and has for some time. Though unlike EP, when RB ‘halves’ a upper range BPM track (eg. 100 when it should be 200) you can easily bulk change the bpms - though RB usually gets the BPM right. My point isn’t that EP should have all the features RB has exactly - it’s that when there’s a choice between a two possible track management systems (being made b a dj playing 195+ material), and one of them lacks the foresight or ability to capture BPM speeds employed by many many subgenres, OR a system that has no problem capturing said data, it’s no longer a hard choice. RB may not be the ultimate standard but it’s what a significant number of people use hence are used to (cf. image for RB analysis options.
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Hardcore dance music is maybe the least populated dance music sub genre , but just last week, dj set streaming extraordinaire Boiler Room announced a knew ‘hard dance’ component. (I was convinced it was fake until some digging, but I have t imagine there’s some correspondence between the creation of a Hard Dance component and those that want to use media players to play hard dance music.)
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Online digital distros like Undergroundtekno and Toolbox records (not to mention Bandcamp) regularly sell significant inventory that is above 1965.
I have to run but i thought I’d start there.