go with an article from an actual publication...if the wall street journal even sees how it is right now in terms of what is big....
Read this one yesterday, definitely the best perspective on the matter I've seen in a formal writeup.
MrCanada
The article has some inaccurate statements. The inaccuraces in the article are, labeling some acts as House, & Techno, when none of those acts mentioned are in those musical genres. Whoever wrote the article needs to learn what "EDM" is, & means.
The accurate part of the article, is something that anybody that knows music, & has a brain could have called years ago. That is that America was changing the face, & history of the music, to profit off it.
zyklon-jay
...because in the rest of the world people put out physical releases in hopes to lose money on them.
Orko
So the US helped to create dance music, and now it is killing it? No, the promoters in the US are just picking up on what the Dutch started.
You can thank Armin, and Tiesto to for the over saturation, over hype, massive ticket price, 'festival' format we have now. Tiesto "in concert" was the start.
But, the US is doing what it does best. Take somebody else's idea, pump cash, coordination, and scale into, and we have....
Endlesswave
quote:
Originally posted by Orko
So the US helped to create dance music, and now it is killing it? No, the promoters in the US are just picking up on what the Dutch started.
You can thank Armin, and Tiesto to for the over saturation, over hype, massive ticket price, 'festival' format we have now. Tiesto "in concert" was the start.
But, the US is doing what it does best. Take somebody else's idea, pump cash, coordination, and scale into, and we have....
Yep.
and that article: The Dumbing Down of Electronic Dance Music
is very good as well as the one you posted.
Question: How come Europe took EDM and didn't really make it super cheesey compared to the form we know now as compared to the states? The radio/big corps in the EU basically just took what the producers were doing and played it on the radio, made it more available.
Instead of the corporations tailor making the djs/producers and entire experience. It's like it's the reverse.
Shouldn't it be the artist does his thing (without corporate influence to where it's super cheese), then everyone jumps on board rather than the corporation having total control along w the "bottle service" big money people?
I hope it just goes underground again or djs like Carl Cox and Farina and the producer of DEMF keep saying " you I won't play or bring in talent like that".
ChemEnhanced
short answer - yes america is killing dance music...but they've been killing it for over a decade now.
zyklon-jay
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Originally posted by Endlesswave
Yep.
and that article: The Dumbing Down of Electronic Dance Music
is very good as well as the one you posted.
Question: How come Europe took EDM and didn't really make it super cheesey compared to the form we know now as compared to the states? The radio/big corps in the EU basically just took what the producers were doing and played it on the radio, made it more available.
Instead of the corporations tailor making the djs/producers and entire experience. It's like it's the reverse.
Shouldn't it be the artist does his thing (without corporate influence to where it's super cheese), then everyone jumps on board rather than the corporation having total control along w the "bottle service" big money people?
I hope it just goes underground again or djs like Carl Cox and Farina and the producer of DEMF keep saying " you I won't play or bring in talent like that".
they did make it really cheesy.
sven vath was and is always so lol.
Endlesswave
lol. You know what I mean.
As for Avb saying this:
“I don’t know. It’s a big debate. I was brought up in the days of Sasha & Digweed, Carl Cox, Judge Jules, Paul Oakenfold: these huge sets that build and build. I guess people don’t have the patience for that anymore. We live for the quick fix… I try to lure people into something more beautiful than just that quick fix of all the big hits. I don’t want to be a jukebox at a festival.”
Errrrrrrrr ok...well I just hope he plays more variety then like his OLD ASOT sets where he'd throw in some prog...
geroin
quote:
Originally posted by zyklon-jay
they did make it really cheesy.
