Like any music, EDM has its hacks, but it can take real genius to string digital blocks into beats and even those hated-upon "drops" into something compelling. Before Deadmau5 ranted back at Win Butler, he reminded Twitter that " computer is a tool, not an instrument." In fact, Ableton, Logic and all the rest are tools for music production and arrangement, essentially coming together as digital sheet music. Classical composers may have been expert musicians themselves, but nobody remembers them for their performances. It sounds crazy, but Zedd, Avicii, Deadmau5 and even David Guetta have way more in common with classical composers than they do with Win Butler.
If you want to take down EDM in all of its glorious intricacies, you'd better be ready to take down the classical canon. Actually, in its complexity and relationship between composer and performer, EDM is a fair amount like classical music. The button-pushing critique has plagued EDM from the beginning, but as an argument, it's deeply flawed. EDM isn't about the performance, it's about composition. Fool's Gold Records cofounder A-Trak and others were angry because he'd claimed that playing EDM was "mostly volume … Or the faders, when you're starting to mix into another song." Deadmau5 had already claimed, in a Rolling Stone cover story from the same year, that some DJs are "button-pushers getting paid half a million." It's true - EDM often is about getting onstage pressing play. " The King of Oontz Oontz Oontz" came out swinging, immediately describing Avicii as "making $250,000 a night to keep the Ecstasy-dosed, champagne-soaked masses moving."Įven the EDM world turned against him for the profile. These were not the first EDM feuds in the industry: The culture wars came to a head last year when Tim Bergling, better known as Swedish superstar producer Avicii, exploded on social media after a GQ profile criticized him, his fans and the genre as a whole from the headline to the very last word. EDM has the unfortunate honor of being incredibly popular and completely disrespected.
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