What do you get when two titans of their respected genres lock horns? A heated exchange, perhaps a couple of lows here and there? We can only imagine, but Fatboy Slim has witnessed it all. The British DJ and producer recalled a specific memory in Australia where he saw Swedish House Mafia and techno and house maestro Sven Vath get into an argument about EDM.
Speaking to Red Bull Australia for an interview, he recalls
The highlight last time was witnessing this fight between Swedish House Mafia and Sven Vath outside a restaurant in Sydney. That’s my overriding memory.
It was quite a comedy. It wasn’t a serious fight, no one got hurt. It was really about EDM versus house purism. EDM outgunned the house purism but on the moral higher ground it was probably Sven.
Now that is one argument that has been prevalent amongst fans and the artists for quite some time now, and it doesn’t look like there’ll be a stop to it anytime soon. However, Norman gives his own opinion on the matter at hand.
From me in my place, it seems like there’s two camps: One is, it’s so commercial and horrible and it’s ruining it for everyone. My personal view is that it helps all of us. The trickle down effect to the most underground purist DJ is being felt because globally there’s just so many more people into the music. And all those kids in Middle America who are listening to David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia — they probably would’ve ended up listening to Miley Cyrus. Instead they’re being turned onto dance music, and some of them might end up being techno heads rather than EDM heads. So I think it’s good for the industry, but some people see those media monsters [in EDM] as the antichrist.
You can check out the complete interview here.
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