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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Why Electronic Dance Music Could Be the New Rock
The Atlantic published the following article and its a fantastic read. Take the time and hear them out on why EDM could be here to stay for a while :)
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(theatlantic.com)"Excuse me," said the teenage girl approaching the circulation desk at the public library. "Do you have any dubstep? Like Skrillex?"Normally that would have been my cue to go to the catalog and show her how to look it up herself, but as an occasional music writer, I happened to know the answer off the top of my head.
"We don't have Skrillex. He doesn't have any physical albums out yet."
"Okay, how about Dead Mouse?"
There I did have to check the catalog; we had had some Deadmau5 albums in, but they were all checked out. "I can put them on hold for you if you'd like."
"No, that's OK." As she left the library with her friend, who had been stifling laughter while she spoke to me, she shrugged. "I guess I'll just torrent it."
That was almost two years ago. As anyone who follows pop music knows, those two years have seen Skrillex, Deadmau5, and peers like Avicii, Swedish House Mafia, and more rise to celebrity status on a tidal wave of brutally physical, subtlety-free dance music that's come to be called EDM (electronic dance music) by the press and fans alike. The industrial-siren, incessantly pounding sounds of EDM have also been popularized on Top 40 radio by superstar producers like David Guetta, RedOne, Dr. Luke, and Calvin Harris, but the music's real home, according to its youthful fanbase, is in warehouse raves, DJ sets at not-particularly-upscale clubs, and increasingly at live festivals, where both attendance and excitement has been upending the previous two decades' conventional wisdom about the preference of American youth for rock, hip-hop, or country.
EDM could be thumbnailed as being to hip-hop what rock was to jazz: not a total overthrow, but a paring down of ideas that had been present from the beginning.
Like anything new or perceived to be new in popular music, the rhetoric around EDM has quickly gotten overheated.The New York Times recently quoted a concert promoter as saying, "If you're 15 to 25 years old now, this is your rock 'n' roll," and breathless profiles in even the nostalgia-peddlingRolling Stone have encouraged that identification. Meanwhile, the chorus of voices declaring that EDM is the worst musical movement in history, the ultimate proof of the decadent know-nothingness of American youth, and the end of culture itself, has only grown—especially online. A lot of that, of course, is the usual grumbling of 30-and-older-somethings that music has changed since they were 15 to 25. But even better-informed arguments that it's all been done before, and that the new crop of EDM superstars don't measure up to the past glories of electronic rave, sound familiar. The cultural arguments over the meaning and value of EDM, in fact, mirror those of previous generations in pop music, from jazz to rock and roll to hip-hop—suggesting that perhaps we really have entered a new era.
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How DJ Performances will Morph over the next year
From time to time EDMBoston has maintained the position that live performances at some point are going to include DJ's playing live instruments or making remixes on the fly. While Enferno's remix above is fun to watch and see the new promise of live shows, it is a bit of a disaster at its midway point. That my friends is part of a live remix, with more moving parts means more mistakes that can be made.
Nevertheless, isn't this way more entertaining then hear predictable tracks?
Stay tuned to EDMBoston to hear more about new live performances. Just last week Deadmau5 mentioned on his blog his intentions to build a new Live show, which he makes remixes on the fly. read about it here
Future of Dance Music & Pitfalls of Fame Interview with Skrillex
Article from Rollingstone:
(Rollingstone) Few artists are busier this summer than Skrillex, who is taking his loud, full-sensory-overload live show across giant venues from San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to New York's Randalls Island. When we caught up with the DJ backstage at Bonnaroo last month, he was finishing a remix due that day and taking part in an XM Radio show backstage, all before his 1:30 a.m. set. "My body naturally wants to sleep later at night or in the morning just when the sun is about to come up," he says. He took a break to chat with Rolling Stone about EDM's recent explosion, his current obsession with dub roots music and why he doesn't consider himself part of any particular scene.
When did you realize that the music you were making was part of a movement?
It was underground when I first started, especially bass music. In L.A., no more than 200 people came to local dubstep shows – this was around 2006, 2007. At Smog in LA, it was a big night if 150 people came. I feel like it started out without any major marketing promotion, singles, pop songs or anything. But when we'd show up in these cities all over the world, people knew what was going on. The venues were packed.
It was underground when I first started, especially bass music. In L.A., no more than 200 people came to local dubstep shows – this was around 2006, 2007. At Smog in LA, it was a big night if 150 people came. I feel like it started out without any major marketing promotion, singles, pop songs or anything. But when we'd show up in these cities all over the world, people knew what was going on. The venues were packed.
Why do you think it suddenly resonated with so many people?
I have no idea, really. The only way I can really give you an answer for that is if
I have no idea, really. The only way I can really give you an answer for that is if
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