Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.
Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.
Everybody's all up on the EDM bandwagon now, because it's, like, another viable conduit for traditional pop music to ride for a bit so they can get out of their little stagnant pool and make a dance hit.
Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.
Until House came along I don't think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music.
I think EDM and metal and rock have been together already for a long time. Bands like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, the Prodigy - they all have influences from both.
I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?
And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.
Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.
Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.
Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.
You've had all that punk and New Wave thing, and I think people have really got sick up to here with it. I know I have.
I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.
No matter what happens with EDM, I would like to go to New Orleans and just play with one of those small funk bands in an intimate venue. How cool would it be to work with a band with those huge horn lines and produce all of that great funk that makes you just want to party?
There's always competition, especially in the EDM scene, but that keeps me motivated and focused. Everybody is really friendly though. I always enjoy seeing other guys at gigs or festivals. So yeah, there is competition but there are also lots of good vibes.
I've been a fan of electronic music for a while.
I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it's a little less. I like the kind of melodies I did with Donna Summer, or 'Flashdance,' where you have a verse, a chorus - a song setup.
I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.
Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring.
DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight.
I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
All these kids who are growing up on Skrillex and all this digital music- what are they gonna think when they hear rock'n'roll?
