EDM, in the present, has perhaps reached an apex. Producers, regardless of subgenre, now find themselves in a precarious situation: collaborate with a pop star or stay true to your roots? Not all collaborations are equal, however. House and trance, for years, have featured singers, but including a name results [...]
House and trance elements have already infiltrated Top 40 pop songs, so it’s about time that dubstep is given a try. Justin Bieber’s latest single “As Long As You Love Me” highlights the gradual influence of dubstep in pop music but also brings attention to the flaws of merging these [...]
Although Giorgio Moroder – best known, these days, for the disco tracks he did with Donna Summer – has been involved with creating and producing music for the past 40 years, he has flown under the radar for the past two decades. Summer’s recent death brought attention back to Moroder’s [...]