Ferry Corsten – Corsten’s Countdown 261 – 27.06.2012

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Afrojack Breaks Silence on Paris Hilton DJing

Most of you have seen or read about Paris Hilton's newest ambition being a DJ.  Over the weekend DJ Paris Hilton's Debut  as a DJ at the Pop Musical Festival in Brazil.  It didn't go so hot.  Okay it was a complete fail that saw her make almost every amateur dj mistake all within one set.

Surrounding the fiasco is her ex-boyfriend Afrojack.  Reason being was Nick (aka Afrojack) produced her original tracks and even had her touring with him.  Making it evident he was mentoring her closely. As a result he has come under fire from his fans and edm fans in general.  They proclaimed him a trader and a sell out.  It certainly was an interesting move for afrojack to combine business with pleasure, but it happened.

Afrojack has broken his silence surrounding the issue and released the statement to Dancing Astronaut.

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Max Graham Cycles Radio 065

Max Graham Cycles Radio 065 June 26 2012

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Best EDM Article We've Read: Press Play? Hit Start

One of the best reads from the last month. Its long but worth it!

Article from Hot Water Inc

"There’s been a lot of noise over the past few weeks, from various people and places, about the quality of the current electronic dance music experience.

On June 23 – enjoying the afterburn of a Rolling Stone cover story in which he called out everyone from Skrillex to David Guetta for dialing in their sets – Deadmau5 used a Tumblr post to piss on the importance of technical DJ-ing skills, saying that with the advent of Ableton and its automatic beat-matching capabilities, “we all hit play.” An editorial on super-blog Dancing Astronaut declared that “EDM” had officially “mainstreamed,” and decried the lack of new music in most superstar DJ’s sets: “What worries me is not that DJs are simply ‘pressing play,’ but that they’re pressing play on the same tracks in the same order night after night after night,” said writer Jacob Schulman. Meanwhile, Paris Hilton played her first official DJ gig– and apparently wasn’t even able to press play (a tech came onstage to do it).

Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal (of all places!) even chimed in, bemoaning the “dumbing down of electronic music,” and labeling crossover artists like David Guetta and Calvin Harris “cliché-riddled, white-bread house that don’t represent the best of the genre.” Then there’s the much-talked-about feud between veteran DJ Sneak and Swedish House Mafia (sample: “I do not respect DJ actors”); and icons like Mark Farina and Dennis Ferrer being asked to vacate superclub DJ booths for not playing recognizable music. 

The bottomline: Artists are getting

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Live Nation Buys Electronic Music Promoter

Thought it be  alittle while longer before big money got in the game? you're wrong. It's here and its not going away anytime soon.  Be prepared, after the fall artists will start to deviate and decide if they want to go mainstream or go underground.  Its gonna be messy and there are going to be all kinds of stories.  and you know what? EDMBoston will be here to share them all with you!

(New York Times) "Big money is flowing into electronic dance music. In the latest example of corporate interest in this once-ignored market, Live Nation Entertainment said on Tuesday that it had acquired Hard Events, a Los Angeles company that has put on popular festivals and concerts across North America.

Yet such investments are fueling fears that

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