Electronic Music is a world in itself that has reached out, crossed-over, and even cross-pollinated genres, creating aural textures people hear in the airwaves on a daily basis. It is constantly evolving. Beyond the four-on-the-floor build up and the big drop, Electronic Music—commonly known as the catch-all term EDM—has dug its way into Hollywood, making movies out of the lifestyle, but sometimes misrepresenting it. In the 2015 Zac Efron film We Are Your Friends, Hollywood attempted to show moviegoers the EDM lifestyle. They delivered the visual part of it, but one of his opening lines (“All you need is a laptop, some talent, and one track”) has left many DJs shaking their heads in disapproval and even boycotting the film while it was in theaters. EDM has constantly shifted as Europe and America played ping pong with each other, creating new sounds, making them better, and influencing the rest of the world from there. The result is a culmination of genres and styles from different musical eras, glued together by the tastemaker. To sound alchemist similarobjects (né Jorge Wieneke V), Electronic Music is greatly shaped by the Internet age. “There’s definitely hints of influence from earlier forms of electronic music in the various […]
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