Mainstream 2.0: How A New DJ Reality Show Could Corrupt EDM
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last couple of years, you have no doubt realized the huge, unexpected boom that EDM has imposed in today's ...
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2012: A Year In Review by Paul Adler
2012 will forever be remembered as a transformative year for EDM. In what seems like a flash, the realm of electronic dance music has expanded e...
Insomniac Confirms Chicago as EDC’s 5th City, But Do We Really Need 5?
Today on Instagram, Insomniac CEO Pasquale Rotella confirmed rumors that the windy city would be getting its own Electric Daisy Carnival this summer. He pos...
Kaskade: “Politicking of a Mash Up”
Kaskade just published an editorial post on his blog, titled, Politicking of a Mash Up. The post, which you can read below, is another lengthy take on the s...
Case Study: DJ Mag vs. EDM Snob, The Media Conundrum
Too Long, Don't Want To Read? Summary:
1) Don't trust an article by its title, even if it says leaking or breaking news, etc...
2) DJ Mag is not objec...
The Advent of Social Media and Dance Music Culture
Advances in technology are the hallmark of the evolution of the human species. From the creation of simple devices like wheels and controlled fire...
Dubstep: The Cross-Atlantic Differential
There was a time when raves were quite different than they are now. They were underground, illicit; an outsider looking in might even say they wer...
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...