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2012: the year electronic music broke

ndrwrld

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Simon Cowell will launch his new dance music TV talent show with DJ Steve Aoki as a judge.

Announced at an event in Manhattan, New York yesterday (April 27), the show - titled Ultimate DJ - will be broadcast air online via Yahoo’s live streaming service, Yahoo Live. It was also revealed that viewers will be able to vote for their favourite contestants via Tumblr.

The winning DJ will get a headline spot at a major electronic music festival and will be offered a record contract with Ultra Records and Sony Music.

As Variety reports, Yahoo chief marketing officer Kathy Savitt described the show as "very much like the World Cup of EDM — country against country, DJ against DJ, fanbase against fanbase."

Cowell was previously due to work on the show with production group Overbrook, which is owned by actor Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith. However, the original idea was shelved in 2012.

Fatboy Slim previously claimed that the idea failed because figures within the dance music industry told him to "fuck off". He said: "Simon Cowell was talking about doing a show and everyone in the business, he kind of started approaching us, and we were like, 'Fuck off, no – that's a terrible idea!' That's the good thing about dance music; it grows organically through drunk people late at night coming up with stupid ideas. It's not something that can be scripted or transported into a TV studio."

NME News Steve Aoki confirmed as judge on Simon Cowell's DJ talent show | NME.COM
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Betoko feeling fabulous.
13 hrs ·
So excited and humbled to have been asked by Simon Cowell to be a judge in his new series Ultimate DJ!!!

#betoko is the guy who lost his Ibiza residency for punching the fuck out of his girlfriend and being convicted of battery.
classy.
 
praktik

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lol @ "July 2014: On stage, mid-set, David Guetta stares into the void and realizes the futility of human existence."
 
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JamesM

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Is it over yet? or is this giant thing still a high school popularity complex?

Where did the real music stop.
 
JamesM

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If I have to go through another season of Steve Aoki throwing pies in peoples faces, and launching himself into the crowd. I don't know if my heart can take it.

Really Big Mouse heads, and shit music. Please no.
 
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As Lollapalooza gets set to return for its 25th year next week (July 28-31) in Chicago, the festival's co-founder and Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell declares he wants to embark on a new "scene-making" venture.

"I hate EDM. I want to vomit it out of my nostrils," Farrell told the Chicago Tribune in response to Lollapalooza's increasingly electronic line-up. "I can't stand what it did to what I love, which is house music, which was meditative, psychedelic. I sometimes cringe at my own festival."

Farrell went on to admit that the only way to change things, was to do it himself. "At my new project, there will be great house music. I hope I will keep EDM at the door. They will be turned away."
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Janes Addiction's Perry Farrell says "I cringe at my own festival" as Lollapalooza celebrates 25 years
 
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Starring Modern Family's Sarah Hyland and The Good Wife's Graham Phillips, the coming-of-age ensemble film follows six individuals who all come together at a giant - but fictional - EDM festival named XOXO.

The film, which will be made available on Netflix on August 26 and has the tagline 'Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.', especially focuses on the character of Ethan (Phillips), a budding DJ who lands a slot at the festival after his tracks go unexpectedly viral.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong has been brought on board as music supervisor for the film.

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JamesM

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Starring Modern Family's Sarah Hyland and The Good Wife's Graham Phillips, the coming-of-age ensemble film follows six individuals who all come together at a giant - but fictional - EDM festival named XOXO.

The film, which will be made available on Netflix on August 26 and has the tagline 'Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.', especially focuses on the character of Ethan (Phillips), a budding DJ who lands a slot at the festival after his tracks go unexpectedly viral.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong has been brought on board as music supervisor for the film.

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Where's the part where James Franco busts onto the PLUR Bus?
 
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There's a Paradise Garage film in production.

Simply called Paradise Garage, the movie will be written and directed by Jonathan Ullman, whose last major work was Trouble In The Heights, which focused on crime in the streets of Brooklyn. Ullman also directed a short 15-minute film about the Paradise Garage in 2014. British actor Kobna Holdbrook-Smith has been cast as Larry Levan, with Rayniel Rufino taking on the role of club staff member Joey Llanos. The real Llanos is a consultant on the film, while one of the venue's DJs, David DePino, will serve as associate producer.

"The stories of The Garage speak volumes about the human spirit," says Ullman, "how people were brought together by a love and passion, both on the dancefloor and in the DJ booth, all set against a backdrop of unity and diversity. This film is both a celebration and a dramatic tale, wrapped around a killer soundtrack that defined an era."

The Paradise Garage, located on King Street in New York City's Hudson Square, was one of the foundational clubs in dance music. In addition to Levan, the Garage was also a regular spot for DJs like Frankie Knuckles and Nicky Siano.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=35899
 
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'Culture of drugs' at London's Fabric Nightclub causes licence to be revoked

One of the UK's most well known nightclubs is to close permanently after its licence was revoked.

The decision to shut down Fabric was made by Islington Council in north London, which described a "culture of drugs" at the venue.

The club was closed temporarily earlier this year after the deaths of two teenagers.

The Metropolitan Police claimed keeping Fabric open would cause further drug-related deaths.

'Culture of drugs' at London's Fabric nightclub causes licence to be revoked - BBC Newsbeat
 
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SFX renamed LiveStyle after emerging from bankruptcy
  • Words / Max Pearl
  • Published / Wed / 7 Dec 2016 / 4:30 PM
The entertainment giant's new CEO is also keen to distance the company from the EDM tag.

SFX Entertainment has emerged from bankruptcy with a new name, LiveStyle, and a new CEO.

The company, which owns electronic music festivals like Electric Zoo and Tomorrowland, as well as the digital music retailer Beatport, declared bankruptcy in February. In the months that followed, they had to sell a couple of their properties and lay off a number of employees in order to get their finances in check. They even eliminated all non-essential services at Beatport, including the site's editorial and video production departments.

Now, they've emerged out of bankruptcy with a new name, LiveStyle, and a new CEO, Randy Phillips, who formerly led another concert promotion giant called AEG Live (SFX's previous CEO, Robert Sillerman, stepped down in April). "Every time I said the name 'SFX' to someone, I got this negative reaction—people would make the sign of the cross," Phillips told Billboard. He also plans to shift the company's focus, broadening the scope of events beyond just electronic music. (Billboard reports that Phillips shuns the term EDM.) They will continue to operate Beatport, which Phillips says is profitable now that they've trimmed away some of its services.

SFX renamed LiveStyle after emerging from bankruptcy
 
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JamesM

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I'd rather listen to Rubber Chicken a thousand times than pay $500 for Kayne West to bawl his brains out in the White House.

Fuck I'd even take a Pie in the face from Aoki, before that.
 
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