Greater than many different genres of music, in relation to EDM, a gathering of followers are extra much like a neighborhood than a bunch of individuals with a typical curiosity. (Exceptions apply.) That might be why when neighborhood points come up, they appear to unfold like wildfire and find yourself as a dialogue on Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, and extra.
It’s additionally why, when /u/Adventurous_Care6669 requested r/EDM about their sizzling takes, a lot of them have been neighborhood targeted. We’ve highlighted a couple of beneath, however you’ll be able to learn the entire thread right here.
Ageism
As a 31-year-old myself, who’s been going to reveals since he was 18, and dealing within the scene since 24, I’ve had my fair proportion of individuals asking me how I nonetheless do it. The eagerness for the music doesn’t simply disappear if you hit a quantity; certain, I’m going out much less now than I did in my 20s, however you’ll be able to nonetheless catch me entrance rail at smaller festivals and operating into the gang after I hear my favourite DnB observe come on.
Rave Influencers
Rave influencers are actually a blended bag. And a variety of it depends upon how deep and recent into the fandom you might be. For my jaded self, movies making enjoyable of wooks may scratch an itch. For others, skits about rave mothers may really feel extremely relatable. Others nonetheless may get pleasure from parodies of individuals on their first roll at a competition, asking random passersby for gum and water.
It will get universally cringe once we really feel that somebody from outdoors the neighborhood is making an attempt to co-opt our world for his or her views. That being stated, guys like Cherdleys, Trevor Wallace, and Blake Webber get a lifetime go.
Repeat units
This one is so depending on private style and frequency of reveals that it’s exhausting to place commentary on. However the primary thought holds as much as scrutiny — particularly throughout a big artist tour when the music is time-coded to the visuals, there are particular inherent restrictions on how a lot a set may be modified from evening to nighttime. And if you happen to like a set, you’ll be extra prone to have enjoyable seeing it once more. It’s why recorded units on YouTube nonetheless rack up tens of hundreds of performs years after the occasion. If it’s good, we gained’t thoughts as a lot.
Underground raves are literally not that cool
This one undoubtedly nails the recent take query. Underground raves, as in true underground raves and not using a well-known (or insured) promoter that usually are unfold through textual content and phrase of mouth, are few and much between today. When you have got skilled sound and lights, and relatively increased charges, artists are going to be much less prone to play in a storage container out within the Mojave Desert.
However to the purpose that this person is making, there isn’t a oversight. They’re typically (not all the time) run with out concern for well being and security and customary guidelines needn’t apply. You’re definitely going at your personal threat, and the potential for a lifechanging time is there, however typically it’s not price it..
Festivals right now aren’t trash, it’s simply your nostalgia operating wild
I’m undoubtedly responsible of this one, although I don’t suppose festivals right now are “trash.” I’m simply getting older and I can’t personally grasp with the younger youngsters anymore. That doesn’t imply that the occasions themselves are getting worse. There’s extra range than earlier than (although we nonetheless have an extended option to go) and the levels are getting larger and louder.
Certain, there’s parts of company greed at play in most festivals in sure elements. However even Insomniac, the largest EDM promoter within the nation, Pasquale has an extended historical past of devotion to the scene and his imaginative and prescient displays what the bulk desires, not essentially essentially the most devoted amongst them.
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