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.
Rest of the article is equally entertaining, particularly this quote;
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.”
This is the Zelda remix in question, in case you were wondering;
SO...
Is the money in mainsteam electronic music getting silly?
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:01 am
by dubluke
god that zelda remix made me want to puke
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:09 am
by Terpit
Where is that figure from?
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:13 am
by phrex
who cares.
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:14 am
by wub
Terpit wrote:Where is that figure from?
From that article link.
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:18 am
by Terpit
didnt see there was 2 pages, just Ctrl F'd '750' and 'seven'
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:28 am
by Forum
So people genuinely play video game remixes at nights and the crowd take them seriously?
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:30 am
by wub
southstar wrote:So people genuinely play video game remixes at nights and the crowd take them seriously?
No weirder than sampling Metal Gear Solid in a track, right?
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:35 am
by phrex
wub wrote:
southstar wrote:So people genuinely play video game remixes at nights and the crowd take them seriously?
No weirder than sampling Metal Gear Solid in a track, right?
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:37 am
by Forum
Not really. I love the clubroot track with batman begins samples in but i wouldn't want to listen to a full remix of the batman theme tune. This sounds just as novelty as the tetris and mario remixes
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:41 am
by wub
Novelty tracks appeal to different demographics...the size of a sample might have an affect on the listening audience's age range, but little else...if they have the money, then I guess what the wallet wants goes.
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:47 am
by phrex
aight, i'm not giving up on this. i say: it depends on what you do out of it. a sample is a sample. you can use it for good or for the bad.
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:49 am
by wub
vulvavibration wrote:aight, i'm not giving up on this. i say: it depends on what you do out of it. a sample is a sample. you can use it for good or for the bad.
With great sampling power comes great sampling responsibility.
Just ask Jive Bunny.
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:10 am
by LACE
prince of dubstep
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:15 am
by wub
Fuck being the prince...the eccentric Uncle with the shit ton of money and remote castle on the stormy moor of Dubstep...that's where the power lies.
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:16 am
by Forum
I would make a brostep for $750k, and play it out
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:18 am
by wub
southstar wrote:I would make a brostep for $750k, and play it out
I was going to suggest doing a Dubstep remix of the Donkey Kong music, but apparently someone has done that already;
Also, check this badboy from the Recommended Videos sidebar on YouTube;
If anyone can last more than 5s into that you have my utmost respect
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:21 am
by Forum
Lol that donkey kong one isnt even that bad for something that was probably made in 10 minutes
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:51 am
by NilsFG
Terrible dubstep remixes is like the internet's rule 34 & 35 equivalent for music.
34: If it exists, there is a dubstep remix.
35: If there is no dubstep remix, one will be made very soon.
Re: Is $750k too much to sign just one track?
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:52 am
by NilsFG
And $750k, it's a lot for a track like Levels. But hey, welcome to the music industry.
It was Universal who decided to pay that. If I'm not mistaken Magnetic Man's on Universal to. Go figure.
didnt see there was 2 pages, just Ctrl F'd '750' and 'seven'
