Dutch EDM poster boy Martin Garrix is to be given an honour of the highest order by having an entire Beatport genre named after him.
Garrix has enjoyed a short and somewhat prolific production career since breaking onto the EDM scene with the release of his track Animals as a seventeen year old in June 2013. The track would go on to enjoy huge commercial success and see Garrix become the youngest ever producer to have a Beatport number one.
Beatport’s genre classification has been the source of some heated debate within the dance music community, particularly the progressive house section which, according to progressive legend Dave Seaman, houses both “new, big room, EDM claptrap” and the more melodic progressive tracks synonymous with labels like Global Underground and Renaissance which came to prominence in the early noughties.
Beatport spokesperson Engelbert Stankovich believes the introduction of the new genre could revolutionise the musical classification on the site. We caught up with him earlier, “We’re so sick of hearing people giving out about our genres so we’ve taken drastic action, hopefully now we can finally put the issue to bed.”
“Garrix’s music has a very distinct, repetitive and unique sound, some would say that everything he releases sounds exactly the same but here at Beatport we call that a genre,” explained Stankovich. “So we’ve decided to take everything that has that Garrix-y sound and bundle them all together in a nice neat little package.”
“As it happens ninety percent of EDM fits the criteria of the Martin Garrix genre,” claimed the Beatport spokesperson. “And with approximately ten million new releases every week it will soon become the biggest genre on the site and perhaps the biggest genre in the entire history of genres.”
Wunderground attempted to get Martin Garrix’s view on Beatport’s decision during a Skype session earlier today but the teenager refused to comment, instead deciding to whistle the tune of Animals, make faces and flash his bottom for the duration of the twenty minute call.
According to Stankovich, other potential names Beatport were considering for the Martin Garrix genre were, EDM, Generic House and Regressive Cunty Poppycock.
