philblackpool
gamelanstep
ATB was also banging out the EDM anfems back in the day - not much has changed in some ways!
Under the name Deadmau5 he is one of EDM's biggest stars and has also become one of its staunchest critics, commenting on its inherent beigeness and criticising ticket prices. In his latest manoeuvre, he's pulled a complete about-turn to become one of its most outspoken hypocrites. Zimmerman recently signed a "co-brand license agreement" – facilitated by Live Nation – with Taito, the Japanese video game company responsible for Space Invaders, to create "a lifestyle brand crossing a myriad of categories launching in the high-end and specialty markets."
yup.
arrrgh
Why can't EDM evolve? It's subsumed elements of all of the above mentioned genres, can't it change in the same way they have/do?"EDM, like a video games console, is a fundamentally closed system; there is no house, techno or dubstep, simply the genre of EDM, into which everything is homogenised, and within which nothing can advance."
It was ever thus... but I take your point, if the money-making sound shrinks smaller and smaller then previously mainstream things become esoteric and previously underground musics are way beyond the pale."unless I'm wrong, and electronic musicians who are decidedly against EDM are in fact receiving recognition. but if that's not the case, what is the motivation to produce esoteric music that very few people will appreciate?"
Methodology
Our estimates include earnings from live shows, endorsements, merchandise sales, recorded music sales, external business ventures and, in the case of DJ Pauly D, television (we included him on this list because, like his fellow Electronic Cash Kings, he makes at least half his cash from DJ gigs). Sources include Songkick, Pollstar, RIAA, promoters, managers, lawyers and some of the artists themselves. Earnings totals were calculated over a 12-month period from June 1, 2012 to June 1, 2013.
Not to put too fine a point on it, the possibility that the people who got famous off making dubstep shit by turning it into boring predictable nu-metal are now losing out to people who are making it even shitter by making it into even more boring even more predictable nu-metal isn't something I lose a lot of sleep over.I think I agree with that statement only to the extent that EDM, as a voracious pop behemoth, is weakening the genres it exploits. as its shadow looms bigger and bigger over techno, house, dubstep, trap etc., the originality of the individual genres gets lost in the shuffle (and goes underground?).
sweetfuck
DJ earnings
http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackoma...-cash-kings-2013-the-worlds-highest-paid-djs/
Calvin Harris - $46 million
Tiësto - $32 million
David Guetta - $30 million
Swedish House Mafia - $25 million
Deadmau5 - $21 million
Avicii - $20 million
Afrojack - $18 million
Armin van Buuren - $17 million
Skrillex - $16 million (tie) - Kaskade - $16 million (tie)
Steve Aoki - $14 million
DJ Pauly D - $13 million (tie) - Diplo - $13 million (tie)
The most fascinating revelation in Eells' New Yorker piece is a dry-erase board in the office of Sean Christie, a manager of Wynn's clubs. "The square for each day contained two numbers: the first, in red, was the d.j.'s fee for the night; the second, in black, was the club's expected take. To determine how much Wynn could pay a d.j. and still turn a profit, Christie and Waits used a formula that included everything from the number of a d.j.'s Instagram followers to the weather forecast."
guess when you're trying to fill these venues/recoup costs you're seeing the same ten or so djs on every flyer