Kaskade Demands Focus on EDM at Grammys

On Sunday at the Grammy's it was business as usual, in fact almost a near repeat performance of the prior edition on the awards show.  Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, ran the gambit of electronic categorizes he was nominated for and walked away with 3 prized Grammy trophies in tote, just as he did in the year prior.  In surprising fashion he even beat out 2012's biggest track Levels by Avicii.  However, that wasn't the highlite of the night for electronic music.

EDMBoston believes the big story happened back stage at the Grammy's.  The vocal Kaskade spoke out to the press core about things needing to change at the Grammys.  Kaskade brought light to the fact that "Best Dance Recording" and "Dance/Electronica Album" are only relegated to the untelevised pre-cast at the Grammys.  Meaning not one person in the primetime audience last night witnessed the riches 2012's electronic music had to offer.

On one hand this could have been a good thing, considering...

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Dave Grohl Grammy Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit!

Because we can't say this any better then la weekly dj blog post by Dennis Romero, were are going to pass it along to our awesome EDMBoston followers.

PS Dave Grohl when did stringing together a couple power chords make ur music the cats pajamas???  It's no longer about how the music is produced but the product that is made.

​"We like Foo Fighters. They're the Samuel Adams beer of pop -- solid, familiar, a good call in a one-jukebox town.

But innovators they're not. Quite the opposite: If one could feed off a dying aesthetic -- long-haired white guys with guitars -- for the better part of two decades, Foo Fighters can show you how.

And so it is with some irony that the band's leader, Dave Grohl, had disparaging words for electronic dance music last night during a Grammy Awards acceptance speech for Best Rock Album:

This is a great honour, because this record was a special record for our band. Rather than go to the best studio in the world down the street in Hollywood and rather than use all of the fanciest computers that money can buy, we made this one in my garage with some microphones and a tape machine...

To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what's important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do.

"It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

Grohl is wrong on so many levels.

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Grammy's Live Blog EDMBoston

Where going live here at 5:00pm for red carpet.  The question is what will Joel (aka Deadmau5) show up wearing or will he bypass the red carpet?  Our bet is he does something meowingtons themed or just straight halarious.  Oh ya there's also the frenchy, David Guetta, and Mr Skrillex aka Sunny More.

Fuck all that noise!

What will deadmau5 play for the masses is the real question??? He has a catalog that spreads the gambit. Ghost n Stuff is the obvious fan fav for the non fan favs.  Or will he get gritty with some dirty electro or some shit we don't even know about??

Guetta will be guetta.  Nothing really to look forward to there.  I'm sure usher, nicki minaj, chris brown, or pitbull will come out and do a collab with him.

Best of luck to all our EDM artists representing the genre!  And no matter what you guys know who the real fans are!

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Deadmau5 & David Guetta Grammy's Performance

That's right, the Grammy's have inked Deadmau5 and David Guetta to perform at their famous awards show.  This is the first time Electronic Dance Artists will be used as performers at the Grammy's.  Weird right?  Well Dance Music didn't even have its own category at the Grammy's until 2003, with the introduction of the category "Best dance recording/dance field"  So yea the Grammy's are a little behind.

As evidenced by the Grammy's chief producer, "I don't know that I figured out a way to do it that felt right until now," Ehrlich said in an interview Monday. "My feeling about dance is it's such an immersive experience for the participant, that to put it on stage ... where the audience is not a part of it ... I don't know, honestly, until we came up with the idea of doing it this way, I don't know if it ever would have worked."

So lets summarize that quote, the mainstream didn't like EDM in the past, so we couldn't put it on the main stage.

But the past is the past.  EDM's cultural revolution is following the great outbreak of country music, back in the early 2000's in the US.  All it took was a few artists to change the genre's sound to a more mainstream sound.  From there, the genre went on to infect the masses.  Till today country festivals and artists are still receiving attention from the public at large.  We at EDMBoston feel, the EDM movement will play out the same way.  It appears, the Grammy's also think so to, with this nodd.

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Skrillex : Grammy Noise

So last night the Grammy's announced all the nominations.  All the other music blogs on the internet exploded with the typical rant "EDM is blowing up".  Now I'd love to join the bandwagon and say the Grammy's are confirmation of that.  But they simply aren't.

If you take a look at all the EDM Nominations.  A majority come from 2 categories that have traditionally recognized dance music.  Those two being: Best Dance Recording & Best Dance Album.  Is that a win for EDM?? I think not.  If EDM was truly blowing up, how come levels or another beatport #1 isn't being nominated for song of the year?  Where's the nomination for Producer of the Year (non-classical).  Surely Afrojack, skrillex, Bennassi, geutta, tiesto, avicii, tommy trash, Axwell, Ingrosso or any of those likes should be up on the board.  But they aren't.

Nevertheless, if the mighty Skrillex is able to pull off Best New Artist, I think it is a game changer.  Not the other categories, which happened to also contain Skrillex nominations.  That my friends would be a game changer.  It would give EDM the push into the public eye on national television and create the stage for next years EDM success at the Grammys.  As Skrillex even said himself. "whats is al this grammy noise about."

The hype is great but don't fall for the bogus stuff and be let down, if EDM turns out to be a fad.  We really hope that doesn't occur!  Skrillex is a great artist to have represent the movement this decade and I think the Grammys will display a glimmer of what's to come for EDM.  With an artist (skrillex)  getting attention in a category that is often nothing more then a popularity contest, the genre is showing progression.  I sure hope Skrillex doesn't suffer the brunt of an edm let down if he doesn't win tho.  At the end of the day the grammy's don't matter.  Plenty of solid artists haven't won a grammy.

Come time next year for the grammys, I'd like to see a track nominated for best song of the year or even see a producer get some attention.  That my friends will be the true showing of EDM's power and growing movement.

On another note, congrats to all the EDM artsts nominated!
http://www.grammy.com/files/54thpresslist.pdf

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