Has listening to live sets made anyone else worse at casually listening to EDM?
I want to be clear that I still love the music itself. This isn't me saying that live sets have "ruined" EDM for me or that I suddenly dislike listening to artists like Illenium, Dabin, Seven Lions, William Black, etc.
The problem is the pacing.
After listening to live sets from Ultra, Lost Lands, and other festivals, going back to Spotify the next day and just listening to individual songs feels... slow. Even when it's the exact same genres and artists I love. A good live set constantly moves. It goes from emotional to heavy and back again, with transitions, edits, mashups, and energy changes keeping everything flowing.
Obviously, artists put a ton of work into creating those experiences, and I think that's part of why they're so good. But now I'm finding it harder to casually listen to EDM because I want that same faster-paced, constantly evolving feeling.
Spotify playlists don't really solve it either. If I search for a melodic dubstep mix, I often get a bunch of songs with the same emotional or sad vibe in a row. What I actually want is more variety in the pacing and energy, going between emotional and heavy songs the way live sets naturally do while still feeling like one continuous experience.
I know I could manually DJ or mix playlists myself, and Spotify has playlist mixing now, but I don't want to manually build a new set every time I want to listen to something different. Repeating the same playlist constantly is how I eventually burn myself out on it.
Has anyone else experienced this? Where live sets haven't made you like the music less, but have made normal casual listening feel comparatively slow or incomplete?
