Seen as though you closed my Teisto thread il start a new one and iv done a "search" for this and it doesnt exist.
Do you think a budding dance music producer has more chance of making it big if he comes from Europe as apposed to the U.S.A?

These days I don't really think it matters.

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For production, i believbe nowadays it is generally irrelevant..

As long as you have talent and a slight understanding of how to get ur tunes heard..


For DJs however.. i think it can have a HUGE difference.

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Yeah cos if you have talent it shouldnt matter where you are.
Why does it make a differnce to a dj?

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Originally posted by gasmark9 Yeah cos if you have talent it shouldnt matter where you are. Why does it make a differnce to a dj?

Well it depends if the scene in your city, if you get a lot of international support, how large the community of djs is there (competition), etc.

A kickass dj in the middle of the desert no matter how many demos and promos he sends out wont get anywhere if no one has heard him/her spin, and in some cities its very difficult to get those kind of opportunities.

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Tell me about it you should try getting a gig when you live in a small town in the Yorkshire Pennines! like me
You would have thought there would be more US talent in EDM production than there is considering the size of the place tho?

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Originally posted by gasmark9 Tell me about it you should try getting a gig when you live in a small town in the Yorkshire Pennines! like me You would have thought there would be more US talent in EDM production than there is considering the size of the place tho?

no americans are happy with their hiphop and bling bling, that's why EDM never broke any serious ground there. Maybe it's the best for trance so to say? Especially since many of the trance producers from the states maintain a very high quality (Christopher Lawrence, Bennison, Deepsky, BT, Descent etc)

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Originally posted by RebeL9 no americans are happy with their hiphop and bling bling, that's why EDM never broke any serious ground there. Maybe it's the best for trance so to say? Especially since many of the trance producers from the states maintain a very high quality (Christopher Lawrence, Bennison, Deepsky, BT, Descent etc)

There is a lot of history which contributes to the fact EDM never got big.. a lot of it has to do with homosexuality, America's policy on drugs etc etc.. However i agree a lot of what comes out of the US is quality.. lets not forget the deep house scene which puts out some best in the world..

The US is just so big. Jesus. so many people in such a massive region.

Edit: Population wise - I bet the USA has the largest active community.... Some food for thought.

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Yeah your probably right. Are the drug laws in the US strict?
Cos i thought they were strict in Europe?
And where do homosexuals come in to it? (no pun)

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Originally posted by gasmark9 Yeah your probably right. Are the drug laws in the US strict? Cos i thought they were strict in Europe? And why where do homosexuals come in to it? (no pun)

Americas way of dealing with drugs and the way the media used the images of drugs like extacy killed a lot of potential scene goes before the could even become part of it.

House, one of the 2 american forms of edm started as a predominantly gay run and gay frequented (*not all, just mainly) scene and this is the time of hiv/aids discovery and media exposure, and basically just a large backlash vs gay people. and rap, coming up at the same time, was very anti gay, hence they became very anti house/techno as well.



if im wrong here and someone wants to correct me, feel free to jump in.

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So it looks like they killed it off before it got its roots down.
In england dance music as a gay history Tony De Vit for instance started the hardhouse scene that as now pretty much gone underground again.
Are Americans pretty much into Rap music then?

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Originally posted by gasmark9 So it looks like they killed it off before it got its roots down. In england dance music as a gay history Tony De Vit for instance started the hardhouse scene that as now pretty much gone underground again. Are Americans pretty much into Rap music then?

Rap and "Rock"

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