EDM is an acronym for “Electronic Dance Music,” but in today’s popular culture, it’s proven to be so much more. Since the term’s widespread acceptance, and the music’s embrace by a generation in the early 2010s, “EDM” has become a dubious calling card for the commercialization of dance music culture and the culture of excess that came with it.The EDM era introduced a swath of massive and hyper-produced concert events, and it took DJs out of dark corners of small nightclubs and made them into celebrities on par with pop music icons like Snoop Dogg and Post Malone, both of whom collaborated with the famed DJ and producer, Tiësto, on his latest album, 2020s The London Sessions...
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Also in this month's In Tune:
Influences: From Joji to Marvin Gaye
What Do You Do: Erik Philbrook
Icon: Janis Joplin
Classic Album Covers: 1999 by Prince
The Write Stuff: Rhyme Time
The EDM icon eschews excess and pushes musical boundaries
Techniques: Blue Notes
How to add that classic blues flavor to your melodies and solos
How to Play "Hanging By a Moment"
Explore the drop-tuned guitars and dynamic vocals the breakout 2001 hit
- Easy For You Anna Graves 3:06
- Let Me Down Easy Daisy Jones & The Six 3:24
- Make Me a Believer (Radio Edit) Conrad Sewell 3:02
- adios JAWNY 3:24
- Another Heart James TW 3:42
- Living In A Haze Milky Chance 2:53
- Perspective Cafuné 2:43
- Middle Man Tyler Braden 3:38
- But Not for Me Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding 9:32
- Phaéton. Poème symphonique, Op. 39, R. 170 Sinfonieorchester Basel & Ivor Bolton 8:56
- Easy For You Anna Graves 3:06
- Let Me Down Easy Daisy Jones & The Six 3:24
- Make Me a Believer (Radio Edit) Conrad Sewell 3:02
- adios JAWNY 3:24
- Another Heart James TW 3:42
- Living In A Haze Milky Chance 2:53
- Perspective Cafuné 2:43
- Middle Man Tyler Braden 3:38
- But Not for Me Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding 9:32
- Phaéton. Poème symphonique, Op. 39, R. 170 Sinfonieorchester Basel & Ivor Bolton 8:56