Global Dance Festival 2012 Review
After three days of teeth-rattling, ear-muffling dance music, formulating a concise and legitimate opinion about the barrage of EDM is near impossible. Prom...
Editorial
The Commodification of EDM: A Fundamental Change
Recently, Rolling Stone announced that Avicii is collaborating with none other than Ralph Lauren as the head of an advertising campaign for denim ...
The Popularity of House: It’s No Accident
Historically, substyles of music have always swung in and out of vogue rapidly and fluidly; those on the cutting edge are always looking for “th...
EDM in the Postmodern World
I have no doubt that EDM is the music of now. Older paradigms have come and gone: orchestral music dominated the scene for most of recorded musica...
What’s In a Remix?
Remixing isn’t such a new concept: someone takes a piece of music and alters it in some significant way to make it different enough to where it ...
Genres in EDM: An Acceptable Balance
House. Trance. Techno. Electro. Drum n bass. We’re all familiar with these genre names, and distinctions are important—each style of music der...
Pete Tong – Essential Selection – 29-06-2012 [With Swedish House Mafia Interview]
Tracklist:
Cedric Gervais – Molly (Pete Tong Edit)
Zedd feat. Matthew Koma – Spectrum
John Dahlback feat. Urban Cone & Lucas Nord â€...
Bringing Down the House: Swedish House Mafia’s Split
UPDATE: Here is the announcement made by the Swedish House Mafia on Pete Tong's Radio 1.
Everyone in the dance music world is familiar with the ubiqu...
The Evolution of EDM: What’s the Difference?
The hallmark of the EDM scene has traditionally been the rave: a unique type of underground and typically illegal party, where people gather toget...