A-Trak Defends The State Of Dance Music

One of the most authentic producers out there today, A-Trak has never held back when it comes to issues surrounding the condition of the music we adore. A few months ago, the award winning producer took to his Instagram to discuss the current state of affairs using the hashtag #RealDJing. Back to basics once more, this time he’s chosen Facebook as his outlet of choice, kick starting the discussion by quashing any rumors that state EDM is a dying genre. He stated,

“EDM is still alive and kicking. There’s been chatter for a while now that the bubble might burst any minute, but don’t be fooled, the business is still very healthy.”

Diving deeper into the discussion A-Trak drew up a remarkably informed opinion about having electronic music evolve under the mainstream. He admitted,

“it’s also easy to see that the genre has reached an almost comical level of self-aggrandizement, with soaring emotional ballads and an overdose of cheese that many have likened to Hair Metal. Due to the fact that EDM has gained massive widespread attention and growth in the past period of time, there has been a “sort of babushka dolls that come with the term EDM: for the press it denotes all electronic music; but for insiders it’s only the maximal big-room caricatural stuff.”

“Rather than dictating an entire style, EDM can now broaden itself to little characteristics in the sonics within an otherwise genre-less song. Avicii really did us all a favor by making a (successful) country record.”

To conclude his extensive yet wonderfully enlightening rant, A-Trak wrote,

“after that initial gateway drug of hands-in-the-air anthems, I’m seeing more and more kids get interested in good, nuanced, forward-thinking music. It’s super encouraging. And even from the DJs’ standpoint, over the last 2 or 3 years we all felt a certain pressure to play more bigroom beatport hits, whereas now it feels like the genres are opening up again.”
We think the big room era is slowly dissipating. The hype of hearing those head pounding drops and overzealous anthems are soon leaving our system. Only when the comfort to explore the innumerable possibilities of making music hits us, that’s when our world will change for the better.

A-Trak left his fans with the question: “Are we entering this post-EDM chapter?”