Mainstream electronic dance music goes hand in hand with spectacle at the world’s largest festivals, but these days, simply having a screen behind you with basic graphics no longer cuts it. Performance group Dancetronauts have been taking such an experience to new heights – literally – first at Burning Man [...]
Dance music has long been its worst enemy, with European vs. American, Hi-NRG vs. down-tempo, instrumental vs. production vs. DJing, and underground vs. mainstream scenes always being embroiled in smack-talking battles about how one style is better than another, one way of doing things is superior, or certain artists have [...]
Joe Gauthreaux’s career rose over the past 15 years, from playing in the clubs in New Orleans to producing official remixes for major artists and being one of the 140 contributing DJs to the Billboard Hot Dance Music Club Play chart. Out Magazine named him the “Hottest DJ of 2005,” [...]
What embodies the acid house aesthetic – the sounds or the period in time? Any piece examining the era in U.K. dance music history from roughly 1986 to 1992 targets club and youth culture, touching on how the sounds and word-of-mouth warehouse parties overlapped with the Second Summer of Love [...]
For many mainstream performers prior to 2010, careers arched from the highly-sought after club residency to the single topping the Beatport charts to finally making it to the main stage at a major festival like Electric Daisy Carnival or Ultra. But throughout this decade’s long path, one factor remained: The [...]
Last year, electronic dance music, as a global industry, was worth $4.5 billion. Now a follow-up report from the International Music Summit in Ibiza reveals that figure grew nearly 50 percent over the past year, now bringing the total to $6.2 billion. With figures coming from the Association for Electronic [...]
Last year, promotion for the Moonrise Festival began with high hopes. The successor to Baltimore’s long-running Starscape event, which the city banned after the 2012 show resulted overcrowding and multiple drug arrests, appeared to be better organized, but was canceled three days before it was about to start. With EDM [...]
As a DJ, Richie Hawtin has the power to keep the crowd interested with a subtle change – switching an accent from an on-the-beat rhythm to one that’s off, transitioning from a duple to triplet rhythm, or just intensifying the sound slightly, for example. Hawtin’s on-again-off-again Plastikman project captures these [...]
The summer season of clubs and festival, in Ibiza and the rest of Europe, started last month, and one DJ who has been a regular performer there throughout the years is Angel Costa. First a DJ spinning at local clubs in Mallorca and later a producer with his own label, [...]
Women are making headway in dance music, both through mainstream and underground roads, but a recent report from THUMP highlights that there’s still much to be done. THUMP examined 2014 festival lineups, noting the number of actual female performers on the bills for Electric Daisy Carnival, Electric Zoo, Mysteryland USA, [...]