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Features The internet collective is making a real life impact Words: Valerie Lee | Photography: Donslens 20 March 2017 If dance music was a stereotypical, all-American Breakfast Club high school cafeteria, it'd be easy to imagine the divisions among the sprawl of lunch tables.
The Los Angeles dance music scene has survived the lean times to become one of the most exciting on the planet. Valerie Lee, US digital editor of Mixmag, tells dance's LA story.
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Impact profiles raw talent that's about to turn dance music on its head. Next up: REZZ Niagara Falls might be a city revered for a series of awe-inducing waterfalls, but more recently it's also become known as the hometown of a 21-year old force of a very different kind of nature.
LA's better known for its glamour and celebrity than its underground club culture. But that's starting to change thanks to a young, hardy and very up for it crowd who aren't willing to accept what they've been given by the city so far.
You know the sound: the kind often described using phrases that include the word "booty" and "bounce". And you know the faces: think of Justin Martin's infectious smile and affection for pizza, the allure and awe of the tiny, but powerful J.Phlip and none other than Claude VonStroke's lovable role as the leader of the Dirtybird pack.
There are certain places around the world that are known for the outlandish, totally garish antics that you'll inevitably get into while visiting. You might think of the obvious: Ibiza, Las Vegas and, not least, Miami, especially during the industry convergence known as Music Week.
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Already well over a decade into the Western world's climaxing commercial boom of the electronic music phenomenon, it seems as though there is no place left on Earth that the genre hasn't touched. Youths all over Europe, South America, Japan, Korea, Australia and even parts of Africa have responded to the movement loudly with a resounding "yes."
It is a question often asked to DJs and industry leaders - one that has fueled anxiety following dance music's rise to popularity as some begin to fear a plateau in the genre's financial and cultural success.
Ask anyone - from your dust-coated friend still recovering from the festival to the bitter anti-hipster who refuses to admit he watched the live stream, people will tell you - Coachella sure has changed.
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When I was young, friends would always excitedly tell me that I look just like Lucy Liu. Though absolutely complimentary, these occurrences were mildly confusing as I eventually came to realize that I share nearly no physical similarities with the Charlie's Angels star, besides the fact that we are both thin Asian females with freckles.
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A blanket of dismal expectancy shrouds every new festival or high profile EDM show. It arrives in the form of a vulture; a hovering media presence eyeing any opportunity to snatch up crumbs of information to then instigate "conversations" where dance music culture and its fans are berated, over and over again.
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How long does it take to fall in love? Minutes? Days? A lifetime? For Galantis, all it took was six months. Six months to sweep waves of strangers into fans and transform a curious lusting to a full on love affair.
Countless voices have attempted to explain Electric Daisy Carnival in merely a phrase; some summed up the event as a "rave experience," a "dance extravaganza," and even a "dazzling, multi-sensory ode to electronic dance music."
For most, Redux began one year ago, when Kaskade coyly introduced a nine-stop 'It's You, It's Me Redux' tour for the very first time. But for Kaskade, Redux has been a decade-long journey in the making. 'It's You, It's Me Redux' was incepted in celebration of the ten year anniversary of Ryan Raddon's first musical milestone and wide success.
Like fashion, electronic music moves at lightning pace, meaning that with the blink of an eye, everything can change. In 2014, Singapore's young music scene was pulsating: Singaporean night club brand, Zouk, continued to maintain its status as a global club leader while its festival extension ZoukOut entered into its fourteenth successful year.