Source: https://www.spreaker.com/user/freakbeats/december-2016-newscast We love gossip and general chatting. On this December newscast we are blurbing about Eric Prydz, Deadmau5, Major Lazer, Armin van Buuren, EDM artists doing charities, SFX entertainment going bust, is EDM a bad word now, festival ticket bots, the X-Factor and bringing in some tunes from the yester year. All these but not necessarily in this order. Get a cup of Macha Green tea ready. You will need stamina... Please purchase Eric Prydz's Lillo new track in memoriam of James Lillo one of his fans who died of terminal cancer before being able to see Eric Prydz for the last time. Here is the Beatport exclusive link https://www.beatport.com/release/lillo/1923324 All monies go to an Oncological charity for a good cause. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRVSF3uvPEM

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We need a new reset. A change on what was. Dance music is a youth culture movement. From a sociological point of view fans dress a certain way, they move a certain way, they listen to a certain kind of music, have their own lingo, go to their own peculiar places, have their own trademark pills of joy and live every moment their own unique way that is not part of the popular culture. Dance music has always been that. A subculture of sort, at best of times balancing itself successfully between the underground and pop culture. We need new heroes. Not because a new decade means something special and demands change. Time after all is a continuum. Nothing changes on New Year’s Day. But we need new heroes because western electronic dance music as we know it today is getting tired. Look at Google Trends for example. Search interest for “EDM” worldwide reached its peak in Sept 2016. In the US it reached its peak much earlier in May 2014. These were the times of the Chainsmokers and the Martin Garrix’s. Good ol’ days, one may say. Now the search interest is about 40% of that peak, both worldwide and the US. Is electronic dance music dead then? Far from it. EDM has been going since the mid 80’s starting from Chicago, lighting up the UK clubs, and subsequently the rest of Europe. EDM is not dead, but the current circle needs to close; if it is not already closed. There are other crowds which are far hungrier for the music than we are in the west. Look at the UK for example when EDM seemed to have peaked back in May 2013.That is a whole 7 years ago. Now the search interest is 20% of what it was back then. Of course Google Trends is not the end all and be all of what is happening in the real world. But it does represent a tool to look at exactly that…trends and how things change over time. And we do know that these trends are reflected in real life. Look at all these clubs that closed down in the last 2–3 years in the UK. Other countries are far hungrier to consume the sound and they will bring their own unique local stamp in what is perceived as a global youth culture. We need new heroes. Artists who will excite us because they are hungry for success. Because they have not bottomed out. Because they are not afraid of experimentation. Because they have nothing to lose by trying something new. Once someone is made then it is human nature that their best work is behind them. Facts. The Chainsokers, Zedd, deadmau5, Tiesto, Armin van Buuren the list goes on…. Do you ever think they will produce their best work in years to come? Sure they are talented and have the capacity to produce the odd banger but…that’s it. They fulfilled the gap that existed when they first came into the scene. They fulfilled their inner artistic needs as well. And the ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag0pTfVQdAs