EDM - The worst thing to happen to electronic music?

[Lye_Form]

shark pool

[ehbes]

shark pool

they arent cheap

[mks]

shark pool

Night Bus

[phrex]

good thing. it's like a filter for shit people with shit taste. you wanna have them at your dance? no. so it's pretty ok they go at some shitty EDM night. also brostep now has shifted fully to the EDM bubble. some space for real music now.

[AxeD]

EDM is a collective term for all electronically produced dance music.
Why was this bastardization accepted on such a large scale? I mean, I know why.. but we
should know better. Instead of following some American 'journalists' in this idiocy.

It's not a 'tomato-is-technically-a-fruit-debate' either, it's just saying one thing and meaning something
entirely different.

[hubb]

It's more about the wording and the fact that 'dance music' in an american context is still mistaken for 90s eurodance, because dance music itself has been divided into well defined sub genres - like detroit techno or chicago house historically over there, where in europe there's been an overlap of techno and house under a broader definition known as just dance.

It should be argued that 'dance' could entail an almost infinite number of things compared to electronic dance music- that actually makes a bit of sence.

It just irks people as a concept because there's another climate (unbeknownst - yes Im saying unbeknownst to american music journos) where idm is well defined and that sounds so similar.

[kidshuffle]

It's more about the wording and the fact that 'dance music' in an american context is still mistaken for 90s eurodance, because dance music itself has been divided into well defined sub genres - like detroit techno or chicago house historically over there, where in europe there's been an overlap of techno and house under a broader definition known as just dance.

It should be argued that 'dance' could entail an almost infinite number of things compared to electronic dance music- that actually makes a bit of sence.

It just irks people as a concept because there's another climate (unbeknownst - yes Im saying unbeknownst to american music journos) where idm is well defined and that sounds so similar.

In regards to the bolded part: thats "techno". No one says dance music. EDM as a term also apparently only exists online

[hubb]

No - that is what I'm saying - as a term

the fact that 'saying' dance music means eurodance

everywhere else even dnb or timbaland etc etc can be dance music - meaning club or rave music.. .

popish -dancemusic

[skimpi]

I hated EDM before it was cool!