Global-ness...
It's not the States vs. The World anymore. Europeans are more educated than most current Americans.... they come here... work their way up... control the programming.
Saw this coming in 1995. Our songs are no fun, no good song writers. I was in a studio once with people telling me "German Power", I had no idea what they were talking about, ha. Their clubs were lazer light shows, vodka, thugz, BMW's... take takeover began a long time ago.
these cats actually play their own tracks and mixes at their shows.
Cause EDM is mostly about the instrumental before lyrics or delivery.
Imagine if hip hop was about the beat ONLY, and not the rapper, and you can see that sound wise it progressed too.
Its the rapping that needs progrees, the hip hop sound is allright
Agreed, he's probably my favorite producer of all time because of his versatility. Went from space-like sounding beats in the early 2000s to producing for.... Ed Sheeran? Either way, Pharrell is good shit.
Skrillex put out an album just recently but I haven't heard any of it on the radio at all. Maybe dubstep's (or at least Americanized brostep's or what not) time in the sun has come and passed?
As for Deadmau5, I think he just released a new album but I haven't checked it out yet. Seems like he's getting a little cynical about the whole EDM scene though.
Everything is getting cheaper, more disposable and we are conditioned to live for a temporary experience.
Nothing is designed to grow or allowed to last.
For all it's worth.. I personally think electronic music is regressing.
I read an article that said Skrillex is a nerd with a social disorder. Wow!!! That says alot for him as well as the direction of where you can expect electronic music to go. Very geeky, non urban etc... Sounds like the video game crowd is getting into producing. Dudes that never had a girlfriend never spent a day in a club, never danced in their life making dance music. Interesting.