With singles released at hyper speed and tours that don’t really let up, can an electronic dance artist truly disappear in today’s musical climate? Groups disband and make comebacks, like New Order informally taking a break after 1993’s Technique and then reforming in 1998 to release Get Ready a few [...]
Within the scope of dance music in cinema, the fan almost seems secondary. But for the pieces that do focus on the fan perspective, from Depeche Mode documentary 101 to Human Traffic and even Second Summer of Love footage, the audience senses the subjects’ passion for the sounds. Unfortunately, for [...]
If you’re above the age of 18, there’s a good chance you’ve had some experience in which Top 40 music piped through your workplace for hours on end: in a retail or food service job to pay the bills, or that office coworker with the radio tuned a bit too [...]
With 2014 just starting, we looked at the producers and DJs ready to break this year – some going higher from a midlevel or one-hit wonder status, and others to festival headliner. Last year, most of our predictions ended up being on the mark, so we’ll see who sees their [...]
By this point, you’ve likely heard about the three electronic music festivals coming to Detroit in mid 2014. Movement – the successor in name to the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, or simply DEMF – returns from May 24 to 26, while DEMF has been resurrected as a free event. A [...]
As much attention as the electronic music world gives DJs and producers these days, instrumental-based groups continue to thrive – and not just those that have been around for decades, like the Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode. One such act is Suntalk. Based in New York City, the group [...]
What goes on at Beatport influences electronic dance music as a whole. The site, essentially, serves as a barometer for genre trends, making what’s on iTunes and the Billboard charts look too dated or too mainstream. So now that Beatport’s parent company, the infamous SFX Entertainment, just fired a quarter [...]
What happens when something that rises gets to a peak? It can either go down or stay at a plateau. That sums up 2013 for electronic dance music – some trends went forward, some backwards, some business deals that once looked auspicious went sour, and European crossover festivals that seemed [...]
Although with a visible underground or bubbling-under-the-surface niche, women remain out of the top ranks of EDM – unless Nervo or Krewella’s two singers get another interview about just how hard it is being a woman in the dance music world. Occasionally, a major magazine or blog throws a bone [...]
Prime Loops claims all the big producers use its products, and that might be a fairly accurate statement, since its samples packages tend to offer decent quality and clarity. Its EDM Essentials series, with sample packs focusing on individual genres, just rolled out a Minimal option in November, but with [...]