(techvibes) This last weekend saw Canada’s biggest two-day electronic music festival of all time at Downsview Park in Toronto, VELD. The famous Canadian DJ deadmau5 headlined alongside Swedish DJ Avicii, who is immensely popular in Canada.
I recently sat down with the prominent blogger for Toronto’s infamous Guvernment nightclub Sean Moffatt to understand what’s behind electronic dance music’s explosion in popularity in the last few years.
He is the co-creator of Toronto dance music blog ibizadreaming alongside walking music librarian Justin Patoka. EDM is now at the point where it has become mainstream and other major artists from other genres are incorporating various forms of electronic dance music. For example, Moffatt says that Avicii remixed a Madonna record and DJ Calvin Harris produced a number one record for Rihanna.
The electronic synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray, who lost out to famous Canadian Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone patent. However, it wasn’t until the widespread introduction of the electric guitar in the 1960s by legendary bands such as The Beatles that electronic music would take off.
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