http://nyti.ms/SsHzQT
Rest of the article is equally entertaining, particularly this quote;THE roar of 10,000 dance-music fans echoed backstage at Red Rocks Amphitheater near here one evening this month as Skrillex, the 24-year-old prince of dubstep, gave a brotherly bearhug to his protégé and opening act, Zedd.
Two years ago Zedd, whose real name is Anton Zaslavski, was making beats in obscurity in Germany. Now, riding the dance world’s accelerated career track, he’s recording with Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, and the crowd at Red Rocks obediently followed his every fist-pumping dance command.
“It’s crazy,” said Zedd, who is 22 but could pass for 16 if not for the fuzz along his jaw. “I’ve always been making music. But suddenly I’m on the other side of the world touring with people like Deadmau5 and Skrillex.”
To most people over 30 those names might not mean much. But electronic dance music, or E.D.M., is having its day as the sound of young America. Festivals like Ultra and Electric Daisy Carnival draw crowds of 100,000 or more, and dance beats fill high-rolling nightclubs up and down the Las Vegas Strip. Forbes recently ranked the annual earnings of top D.J.’s, topped by Tiësto with $22 million. Naturally the music industry is taking notice.
This is the Zelda remix in question, in case you were wondering;Outside the stage door at Red Rocks two 16-year-old boys from Kansas City, Kan., waited patiently for Zedd’s autograph, and finally got it, as their hero made his way to a meet and greet with radio programmers.
“I first listened to him when he was on tour with Skrillex last year,” said one of them, Justin Tresner. “I watched him on YouTube live, and the lights and the bass were just amazing. He also remixed the Zelda song, and Zelda’s, like, my favorite video game.”
SO...
Is the money in mainsteam electronic music getting silly?
didnt see there was 2 pages, just Ctrl F'd '750' and 'seven'
