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As a person that's tried to maintain an EDM blog, I will tell you it's quite hard. Hard to find quality stuff to write about, and hard to get a community going. There are lots of people that go to EDM shows and rage, but when it comes to actually being interested in the music, the DJs behind it, etc., there are much fewer people in that camp. A lot of them are on this board. You will see that a lot of the comments on DA are similar to the comments on DJ's FB posts:
"DAMN can't wait for Ultra! Gonna rage my face off!"
"Wow this post is fucking stupid, fuck u, David Guetta is way better"
"Fuck avicii, he's so mainstream"
Nothing thoughtful, most of the time. And the posts themselves are oftentimes not thoughtful - "hey here are 5 cool tracks that we like!" "hey here are some reviews... of east coast shows only!"
That being said, DA is trying to legitimize the scene at least a little bit, and I respect them for that. I think that if people were more involved (the readers), the content would be better too, but I gave up on that long ago. The scene is "growing" but not really from the perspective of people wanting to learn more about the DJs or the music. Just more people wanting to get fucked up at shows. For every 100 new attendees of EDC or Ultra, 1-2 of them will actually go home and read blogs, etc. That's what it seems like to me. I feel like I'm the EDM historian or something. Most of my friends who are in the scene still don't really know much besides when the next show is.
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