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From My Perspective: The Growth of The Dance Music Scene
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| DJRYAN™ |
There was a time in the very recent past where you could walk into a club and hear nothing but top40 and rap. That was the dance music. Nights with EDM were special nights, usually with less of a crowd, and mostly people twirling glowsticks and dancing around in their big pants and visors. Its been a slow journey. People like myself pushing club promoters to bring EDM events to the mainstream. To incorporate house music into ordinary club nights and yes, we've created something. We've helped to create a genre of music that's led to artists winning Grammy's, we've helped to bring to the masses a genre of music that can be heard on the radio, can be heard in commercials, and in movies. We've helped to create an entire market for Electronic Music because it deserved to be heard. Now in every corner of the US you have hundreds of thousands of dance music fans attending festivals that we could only dream about back in the day. Chicago, Atlanta, Las Vegas, LA, New York, Miami. Yes, these places are acting as a catalyst for an even bigger scene and even more of an enjoyable experience. The sound has gotten bigger, the lights brighter, the people more massive. This has helped to create an electrofying scene that we should all be thrilled to participate in. I for one am glad that our hard-work and efforts have paid off. But there's still work to do.
Going forward my fear is that the corporate conglomerate will take our scene over. It will be even more commercialized causing prices to explode, talent to become comparable to your late 90's boy-bands. Here today and gone tomorrow. You'll encounter dj's who have not put here time in, but due to there financial backing, the ability to put on a big show with less than stellar music, take hold and deteriorate oour loving scene. Although I don't wish this to happen, we can already tell that organziations and media giants are positioning themselves to capitalize even moer on unsuspecting ravers.
Although the music is being brought to the mainstream, the mainstream will attract people not familiar to the ol school vibe that these events and parties used to incorporate. The familiar faces, hugs, and beads, will be replaced with the newest and trendiest fads, and what once was will be no more.
This is not what I envisioned in my effort to attract more people to the scene. What I had envisioned was more outlets for people other thanmyself to hear electronic dance music, and attract more people to our shows. Well, we got what we wanted- sort of. |
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| DJRYAN™ |
| Supa Nintendo, Sega Genesis, didn't know that we could handle this.. |
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
There was a time in the very recent past where you could walk into a club and hear nothing but top40 and rap. That was the dance music. Nights with EDM were special nights, usually with less of a crowd, and mostly people twirling glowsticks and dancing around in their big pants and visors. Its been a slow journey. People like myself pushing club promoters to bring EDM events to the mainstream. To incorporate house music into ordinary club nights and yes, we've created something. We've helped to create a genre of music that's led to artists winning Grammy's, we've helped to bring to the masses a genre of music that can be heard on the radio, can be heard in commercials, and in movies. We've helped to create an entire market for Electronic Music because it deserved to be heard. Now in every corner of the US you have hundreds of thousands of dance music fans attending festivals that we could only dream about back in the day. Chicago, Atlanta, Las Vegas, LA, New York, Miami. Yes, these places are acting as a catalyst for an even bigger scene and even more of an enjoyable experience. The sound has gotten bigger, the lights brighter, the people more massive. This has helped to create an electrofying scene that we should all be thrilled to participate in. I for one am glad that our hard-work and efforts have paid off. But there's still work to do.
Going forward my fear is that the corporate conglomerate will take our scene over. It will be even more commercialized causing prices to explode, talent to become comparable to your late 90's boy-bands. Here today and gone tomorrow. You'll encounter dj's who have not put here time in, but due to there financial backing, the ability to put on a big show with less than stellar music, take hold and deteriorate oour loving scene. Although I don't wish this to happen, we can already tell that organziations and media giants are positioning themselves to capitalize even moer on unsuspecting ravers.
Although the music is being brought to the mainstream, the mainstream will attract people not familiar to the ol school vibe that these events and parties used to incorporate. The familiar faces, hugs, and beads, will be replaced with the newest and trendiest fads, and what once was will be no more.
This is not what I envisioned in my effort to attract more people to the scene. What I had envisioned was more outlets for people other thanmyself to hear electronic dance music, and attract more people to our shows. Well, we got what we wanted- sort of. |
From my perspective this is how the scene has been for quite sometime now.
The only difference between today and 5 years ago is the amount of people listening to the music in the states. |
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| DJRYAN™ |
| Imagine how many people were listening to Electronic Music 15 years ago. That's my timeframe for the ideals contained in my little note. I got my first fake ID when I was 17. I was bouncing in and out of clubs dying to hear EDM. I finally found this one club, Ezars, and noone was ever there. It was one of the biggest clubs in the city, yet I found myself night in and night out being the only person out on the dancefloor. I remember looking around asking myself why is noone here- this music is awesome. It was the only place in the city where EDM was being played no matter the night, no matter the time of night. Needless-to-say, something like that would never occur today and I think that's the point. We've come along way since then but what we do with our scene next is just as important. Do we want corporations to shove down our throats the same garbage they put on the radio, or do we demand great music?? |
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| Sykonee |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJRYAN™
Imagine how many people were listening to Electronic Music 15 years ago. |
In my neck of the woods, there was an incredibly thriving electronic music scene 15 years ago, almost all underground but more than enough outlets for one to get their fix. If anything, it's scaled back compared to those years, though one can still find good nights out with a little effort.
I'll grant different regions and cities have unique perspectives on this thing, but just because some places have suddenly 'got it' doesn't mean others never had it. |
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| Trance-MB |
| That sounded like it was over here, but more like 20 years ago. |
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| DJRYAN™ |
| Yea it was way different here in the states. Its just nice to see how well things are going now. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| it wasn't different, you were just a baby. THey used to have rave shops. THey had one in every major city in Canada including Calgary, the texas of Canada. EDM stores that did all stuff EDM. There is no music scene for EDM, only a vodka sponsored party scene that uses EDM. YOu missed out. Deal with it. Not saying any of the music is better or worse, but the scene was something and what you have now is frat boy bull. |
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| DJRYAN™ |
| I wouldn't say I missed out at all. In fact, I think I got in all the forefront of something special. |
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| enydo |
| Keep telling yourself that. |
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| enydo |
| I'll keep looking at your events list while laughing. |
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