The phenomenal rise of electronic dance music (EDM) may have entered a new, more mature phase, according to DJs and industry experts. “Kids in their bedrooms can – pretty much for free – produce their own electronic music track and distribute it instantly,” Watson said. Pete Tong, the DJ and co-founder of the International Music Summit, told Music Week that the bubble had “punctured” rather than burst. Conversely, as other music genres assimilate it, parts of the electronic music movement have gone more underground. “Electronic music has been a thing over the last 40 years: it’s always going in and out of the mainstream.

Source: The Guardian May 27, 2018 05:00 UTC