Dance Music
Overwhelming Majority of Fans First Began Their EDM Journey Before Age 20: Poll
Electronic music listeners tend to become enamored with the genre at an early age, according to the results of a recent EDM.com reader poll. The fact that the blissfully care-free lifestyle promoted by electronic dance music culture appeals vastly to youthful demographics isn’t necessarily a surprising discovery, but the weighting by percentage skews more youthful than perhaps one would expect. Precisely half of respondents reported first beginning their EDM journey between the ages of 0-15. This would suggest that listeners at the high end of this segment were born around 2007, a time when dance music was just on the cusp of booming in the U.S. during the late 2000s and early 2010s. Our latest EDM.com poll found 85% of dance music fans began listening before th...
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EDM.com Playlist Picks: David Guetta, Alok, Timmy Trumpet and More [9/24/21]
The electronic music community is constantly evolving with new sounds every week, as artists become more innovative with their compositions. EDM.com’s weekly “Playlist Picks” series highlights the top releases in the genre, helping uncover the latest tracks that will soon dominate the dance music scene. EDM.com Top Hits Pepas (David Guetta Remix) – Farruko Love Is Gone (Alok Remix) – SLANDER & Dylan Matthew Cardio – Timmy Trumpet Festival Hits 2021 Green Light (Feat. Kate Wild)(Moksi Remix) – AC Slater & Bleu Clair Recommended Articles Get This Party Jumpin’ – Croatia Squad FACETIME – Garmiani Electronic Avenue Here – Adventure Club We Got It – Crystal Skies & Micah Martin Superhero In My Sleep – Riva...
Martin Garrix and Maejor of AREA21 Have More New Music Dropping This Friday
Hold on to your hats. AREA21, which consists of superstar DJ and producer Martin Garrix and Maejor, have another new track called “Followers” landing this Friday. The duo announced the single in an Instagram post on Monday. Since Garrix and Maejor began teasing a new album from AREA21 project months ago, they’ve released a slew of tracks and music videos, including “Mona Lisa,” “La La La,” “POGO,” and “Lovin’ Every Minute.” AREA21 found Disney Music Group’s Hollywood Records as their debut record’s home and inked a contract with them. In addition to their debut album—slated for a release this fall—award-winning animation company Titmouse has been producing animated videos to accompany the re...
Spotify Editors See Rising Appetite for Underground Genres in Dance Music
A fascinating deep dive into dance music was recently published to Spotify‘s For the Record, a dedicated blog and podcast managed by the streaming giant. According to Spotify’s “The State of Dance Music” report, For The Record spoke with the company’s global dance curators about current and future trends they’re observing within the genre. This is the team responsible for providing listeners with playlist content for Crate Diggers, mint, and a plethora of other popular dance music playlists. The piece provides a prescient perspective into how these decision makers view the genre at large—and where we may be headed. Overall, the health of dance music’s immediate future received glowing remarks. Despite stagnation related to closed c...
Study Shows That Prehistoric Raves Took Place in the Stone Age
A new study in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal suggests that groups of Mesolithic era hunter-gatherer peoples in northern Siberia held massive rave-like dance events. According to the study, the people wore elk teeth attached to their clothes, which rattled during dancing and generated rhythmic sounds that put them into a trance-like state. The researchers conducting the study were intrigued by distinctive patterns of “pits and craters” on the elk teeth, which suggested some sort of rigorous activity took place to dent the decorative teeth. They then recreated the garments worn with the elk teeth, and—in an attempt to replicate those patterns—danced nonstop for six hours while wearing them. “Our active movement experiment, called the ‘Stone Ageish Disco,’ produ...
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer Remixes Robyn & Röyksopp’s “Monument”: Stream
The Knife had a big 2020, marking their 20th anniversary with a series of reissues, a long-awaited migration to Bandcamp, live performances, and a new anti-nationalist anthem. With the celebration behind them, though, the group’s Olof Dreijer is back to his own work. Today, he’s shared a remix of “Monument” by Robyn & Röyksopp. “Monument” comes from the Swedish collaborators’ 2014 Do It Again EP, but it’s given a completely new spin here. The original pulsed with heavy sultriness as Robyn delivered slow and deliberate lyrics of determination. Dreijer kicks up the tempo considerably, speeding the vocals and panning the audio back and forth. The instrumentation also has been given something of a more classic dancefloor vibe, to the point where you can almost see the flashing lights cutti...
Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Dances Through the Pain and Trauma: Review
The Lowdown: It feels strange listening to dance music at a time when dance clubs themselves, nights out with friends, and, for many, friends in general are impossible to access in person. Like so many of the joys people have managed to find in quarantine, kitchen-floor dance parties and celebrations shared via Zoom and FaceTime — while necessary reliefs and real, genuine joys — can also sometimes feel tinged with a hint of delirium. But Chromatica feels like an appropriate answer to the vacancy created by this dissonance — as a lot of Lady Gaga’s work has done in the past, it offers up some honest-to-God bangers side by side with some honest-to-oneself reckonings with trauma, pain, addiction, and the very idea of what it means to be flawed and how this idea shifts depending on who’s defin...
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