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Often labeled as the new “rock ‘n’ roll,” the EDM genre has emerged from the smoke-filled trendy clubs and warehouse raves into mainstream media everywhere.
With artists such as Avicii, Krewella and Calvin Harris releasing Top 40 singles, their influence and popularity will continue to grow in 2014. We’ve put together a list of 14 EDM artists and DJs who are the forefront of the genre and may just become the next superstars of the year. Be sure to also check out all of these artists on our Beats Music playlist! Dutch DJ Martin Garrix had one of the best years in 2013 and is considered EDM’s most promising rising act.
At only 17 years of age, Garrix reached international fame with the release of his catchy electro house single, ‘Animals,’ which recently hit over 150 million total views on YouTube. The electric pop trio Cash Cash had a big year with the release of their first single under Big Beat Records, titled ‘Take Me Home.’ Next: 14 Pop Artists to Watch in 2014. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. Mark Farina kicked off decks by "table service crowd" Deadmau5: “We all hit play” – why DJs aren’t the new rockstars. Deadmau5 recently kicked off quite a discussion on Twitter and Facebook with a controversial articled titled “we all hit play”, published on his personal tumblr blog, promisingly named “united we fail”.
It’s not the first time Canadian-born Joel Zimmerman has rocked the boat by speaking his mind: earlier this year he called Madonna a “fucking idiot” on Facebook after she made a reference to ecstasy on stage at Avicii’s performance at Ultra Music Festival, Miami. On a side note, he also wore a T-shirt with Skrillex’ personal phone number on it on TV at this year’s Grammy awards – but that’s another story. Once again he’s brutally honest here, exposing the (mainly US-American) EDM scene’s pretentious idea of “live” shows: in order to perform a typical dance track live (and by live I mean live as in live with real instruments, not live as in Ableton Live) you’d probably need 10 drum sets, twice as much percussionists and a whole army of people on keyboards and synthesizers.
Boysnoize : if you see a dj that uses a ... EDM – the worst thing that has ever happened to electronic dance music? “Who’d have thought three little letters could make dance music look so wanky?”
, fellow blogger Clive from UK-based music blog Electronic Rumors asked on Twitter a few months ago. “What’s happened to dance music?” , Haezer asks his fans on Facebook. London music blog Too Many Sebastians recently declared the beginning of EDMageddon on Twitter. In the meantime, Tiesto is still touring US universities for his Club Life College Invasion tour, Steve Aoki is still surfing underage crowds on an inflatable raft and David Guetta is still selling out every single show he plays. After an entire summer spent traveling from one EDM festival to another, I obviously could go on for hours here, but let’s just forget about all that for a second and step back to take a closer look at this thing called EDM. How could it have come to this, though? Today however, the situation has changed. Underground music has been influencing mainstream music for as long as music exists, probably. Comments appreciated.