Electronic Dance Music Goes Hollywood!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/movies/electronic-dance-music-goes-hollywood.html?_r=1&smid=tw-share

Once marginalized as a novel European import, electronic dance music, or E.D.M., has become the dominant trend in American pop these days.

"Its lively synthetic beats and booming bass lines are inescapable, and its top D.J.’s draw sold-out crowds to outdoor raves like Electric Daisy Carnival and even rock bastions like Lollapalooza and Coachella, earning them thousands, if not millions, of dollars for a single set."

no way! who knew?

“I think it’s their day in the sun, and Hollywood is very trendy,” he said. “An E.D.M. artist like Skrillex is pushing frequencies and using new instrumentation that is so intense, his music has the potential to drive a modern action scene more effectively than a traditional Hollywood orchestra.”

"Electronic musicians have scored movies for years."

i had no idea. tell me more!

"Mr. Houlihan noted that film and television studios are already paying top dollar for electronic tracks. He said prominent E.D.M. artists can receive $40,000 to $50,000 for licensing a song for single use in a network television show and $150,000 to $250,000 for one song in a film. “Skrillex right now can get as high a fee as Rihanna because he is so unique at what he does,” Mr. Houlihan said."

wow, "e.d.m." artists actually get PAID for their "tracks". i learn something new every day!

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"However, scoring a film presents new challenges to electronic artists, who typically write and perform alone with their computers and sound systems. “You not only have to have the musical chops and the compositional skills, you also have to have the skills of a filmmaker and understand what is happening in the films and the emotions and intention of the action,” Mr. Houlihan said. “That is a pretty steep wall to get over, and a lot of artists just don’t have the experience to do that.”

"Mr. Houlihan added a deeper concern, suggesting that E.D.M. could be little more than a fad. “I don’t think it will go on forever,” he said. “Film music trends tend to follow music trends, and the fickle taste of the public is going to get off dubstep at some point in the next year or so.”

i don't think it will go on forever either. even though it has gone on forever.

"I wouldn’t just make films for the sake of making films. But if it made sense, absolutely I’d do it again.”

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"Mr. Korine said of Skrillex and “Spring Breakers”: “He is of the generation, and it is in him. The culture and that idea, the violence and the emotion and the aggression and the beauty — it is all in him and in the music."

fun read!

i don't think it will go on forever either. even though it has gone on forever.

― scott seward, Monday, September 3, 2012 7:14 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

Article is clearly incomplete without a mention of 'let's scare Jessica to death', an early 70's film with an all-electronic score

I buy EDM on vinyl records.....yes....you read that right, in todays ipod world many young people are returning to the audio format of yesteryear

"hey, bebe, how are those bass drops coming along?"

http://www.effectrode.com/wp-content/uploads/louis_bebe_barron_studio.png

the skrillex of '76

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSMh8hR51Y