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 [...]
It’s easy to feel like you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place when you are just starting out as a DJ. But did you know there are certain things that instantly let promoters know you haven’t taken your DJing career seriously? Let’s take a look at the 7 Ways [...]
JustGo and Topple Track are in the business of collecting data, and lots of it. They both use data to power software that provides valuable services for musicians and content creators. Although the services help musicians of all types, the access to data on electronic music made them think it [...]
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 [...]
When my set was over, a young, aspiring DJ pulled me aside intent on educating me. He claimed that only as an established “insider” was I permitted to mix and match between genres as I pleased. Clearly, I hadn’t got the memo. Despite ten-plus years of DJing under my belt, [...]