Rebecca & Fiona Interview: Looks matter

EDM Insider recently sat down with Rebecca & Fiona for an interview in Chicago, check it out.

Notable quotes:

..."most famous DJs are really ugly, but people don’t notice because they are so starstruck.".

Who are they referring to? I wonder.

"Who knows though with trends, what is popular changes so quickly. If somebody really good looking comes along and makes a good punk song, punk can become popular again. But we feel that it’s best for people to just make their own music in the genre they love best.."

(Source: EDM Insider)

Rusko Interview: Codeine, Rohypnol, and Vodka

Rusko is pretty damn candid about his drug and alcohol use, here's a snippet:

“You know they have the one litre bottles of Grey Goose, the big fat giant ones? I do a whole big one a night. It’s a combination of tolerance and being more fucked up. Every day I wake up more and more hung-over and more and more bruised and tired, so I have to drink more to get myself in the right frame of mind to get back on stage. I’ve been drinking vodka for the last 22 nights in a row, so you build up a tolerance to it. Now I’m just necking it out of the bottle."

Here's a thought exercise for you all: re-read the article but take away Rusko's fame, touring and music away.

(Source: US DJ Mag Edition, via Pulse)

New York condo owners not happy about EDM pool party

To some people the perfect view and ability to hear DJ Chuckie play live from the comfort of your own condo would be a real treat but not for these two condo owners quoted in the article.

At this pool party the VIP clientele use $200 champagne bottles to spray each other rather than drink it.

(Source: New York Post)

Silent Disco at Camp Bisco

I've never been to a multi-day camping EDM festival before but I just might so I can check out a silent disco:

At this point, it was after 3:30 in the morning, and the option to go to silent disco was still on the table. If you’ve never tried a silent disco, it’s a common nighttime activity at camping music festivals where two DJs spin separate sets in the same room, and people wear headphones provided by the silent disco in which you can pick which DJ to listen to. You can tell who is listening to which channel based on how they’re moving to the music – it’s quite entertaining, actually.

Sounds hilarious and fun to watch. Does anyone know if they have this set up at WEMF?

(Source: Dancing Astronaut)

A-Trak's Take

A-Trak posted a lengthy but worthwhile article on the current state of live EDM shows which is being praised by a lot of people on Twitter. While he makes a lot of good points about DJ'ing I really thought his view regarding Dancing Astronaut's article on the dangers of major DJs phoning it in for their live shows to be especially on point:

For the DJs who bounce from venue to venue, playing the same set without the redeeming quality of a personalized stage production, there is no excuse. This laziness is actually giving "live" performances more value! After any big EDM festival, look up the DJ playlists. They're frighteningly similar. This scene is turning into a caricature. Explosions, private jets, standing on tables (I plead guilty to the latter), and now carbon copy playlists... The hair metal soap opera of EDM risks devaluing a culture that has waited for its big break for 30 years.

This is the big threat. I consider EDM fans a bit more savvy than the rest of the hoi polloi so I wonder how much longer are we as consumers of this scene are willing to pay good money to hear the same set and tracks being played over and over? Not me. The technology should be used to surprise fans and not to encourage lazy DJs from cashing in.

(Source: Huff Po)