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I disagree.
People in Europe aren't any more real about the music than they are here. The only difference is that the actual music tastes differ. Just look at the fucking Brits - it's a mecca of so many different EDM genres, and don't tell me they're any less retarded than the people here. They still love getting drunk, and there's still a huge percentage of fakers, people who don't know shit, just know that this is where they can have a good time. Same thing with the ravers that were around when it was all "underground" - they all loved getting fucked up too, and a large percentage of them didn't know much more than that you take ecstasy, and then everything will be fun.
Even if there wasn't any political red tape, you wouldn't see a massive 20,000-person event happening here - there just isn't the audience for it. WEMF struggled to bring 8,000 people a year, and that's pretty much the biggest thing we had going here. Maybe in the future it would be possible, but in order for that to happen, the music needs to hit more ears. Politics or not, if only a tiny percentage of the population know that these music genres even exist, then only those people will be the ones wanting to go these events.
I'm too lazy to keep arguing this, cause it's been beaten to death, but trying to keep music underground isn't saving it. Trying to reach people who don't know about it is.
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