The phrase EDM has been popping up more than ever lately. I think the phrase originated maybe 2 years and has been abused throughout the masses and corporate America. Yes EDM is a corporate term at least in my eyes. I have been around house music since the mid 80′s and to me it will always be “house music”. If you see me tweet EDM, I am being my usual self that finds the phrase absolutely meaningless and stupid. So if you send me an email with the letters EDM in it for your track or dj mix, I really can’t take you seriously. In short, I think house music has become commercialized with the term EDM and the sheep (general public) have no concept of what real house music is. The sheep go to raves and festivals and wanna hear the same songs they hear all the time. That includes the tracks you hear all over the radio and nightclubs every week. House music is a feeling. How do you get a feeling or inspired after hearing “Feel So Close” 3 times a week? Before I rant more and make this a book, I wanted to direct your attention to an article courtesy of inthemix.com that hits the nail on the head about what is happening to the true house music scene. Click here to read the article…Enjoy!!!
EDM : Killing The House Music Scene
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i actually want to comment on the backlash of electronic music as a whole, regardless of genre. i find it similar to what Hip-Hop went through after Puff Daddy ushered in the shiny suit era (i’m a hip-hop and reggae DJ by the way and hated that era but recently have been feeling nostalgic for the DJ experience in the clubs those records paved way for myself and my peers). electronica is going through the same growing pains. from a DJ perspective, we have a tendency to be purists and cultural pack rats. yet we adapt to the times to keep food on the table. the argument, don’t bite the hand that feeds you, is very real in this day and age. of course we want it to be about the music (regardless of genre) but at the end of the day business is business. i recall Jazzy Jeff got pulled from a DJ booth in vegas (was it last year?) for not conforming to the bottle service club scene playlist. it was sad news but that’s how things go down and it’s bittersweet. fast forward to 2012 and now every kid with a fixie bike and tight jeans wants to spin the latest dance hits and call themselves a “dub step” DJ because they play a skrillex song in their set top40 traktor sync enabled set. ironic? maybe. annoying? perhaps. kids are kids though….they go through a lot of phases. and now…the reality…the house music scene has nothing to do with the commercialization of EDM. believe me when i tell you there is always and there will forever be an underground music scene regardless of genre. you already know this however. DJ’s with real gigs are living the dream. at the end of the day however we make a choice as to who we’re going to entertain. do we really want to spend the rest of your life playing MP3′s to tourists or wishing you could play that pristine mastered house track you made in ableton live at that sweaty warehouse at 4am in the hood and making zero dollars? i grew up listening to DJ Enrie on the radio and saw that DJ Enrie fill some big shoes back in the day (Humpty Vision, Doc Martin et al). i also grew up in an era when i could be super punk rock about my hip-hip ways and now i see it commercialized at hot topic in the mall. it disgusts me but it’s amazing to me that Biz Markie has DJ gigs for the Democratic National Party and President Obama. out of all the celebrity DJ’s out there…that’s an amazing list of gigs right there. you know who the DJ’s are that are passionate and do it for the love of music. it’s like that classic doors song….riders of the storm
As an owner of an electronic dance music website, I think that the term EDM doesn’t define House Music but encompasses all genres of the the music. The “sheep” that wish to hear all of the same songs don’t know the first thing about electronic dance music for the most part, and are not the ones most distinguished blogs are targeting anyway.
EDM encompasses NOTHING. Electronic Music encompasses EVERYTHING.
the only people who call the music EDM are mainstream kids 25 years old and younger – most of us who were around during the 90′s DO NOT USE THE TERM.
these kids have no idea about real Electronic music – ask them anything about Ambient or IDM from 1989-1993 and they will mention Skrillex and Deadmau5 because THAT’S ALL THEY KNOW.