It’s the scandal of the week and many of you have been fervently talking about the rules imposed on late night DJs at a new Las Vegas club.
No trap, no dubstep, no David Guetta and certainly no Martin Garrix (the douche), the club seems hell-bent on banning anything mainstream. 
Just like the hipster fascists they are.
Beg your pardon, that was a joke. Just like calling Martin Garrix a douche, ammiright? We were told the list wasn’t meant to taken that seriously… But it turns out if you are playing there, you should probably stick to the rules.
In a recent interview, the club laid out their reasoning behind outlawing what they see as ‘pop music’:
“…but in the EDM side of things I know over a handful of writers that write for several of these big name guys making millions. Some are nothing more than pop stars with engineering teams behind them. I’m not hating on them for reaching that point, but its no longer an artistic music. It’s now pop art, and complete garbage… We’re simply dealing with taste and a big gap in most personalities.”
Well they are more than welcome then, to drastically restrict their market. Anyone who would be a fan of this music, who see something worthwhile in it and are willing to head out and enjoy it played, must find these kind of narcissistic ramblings disheartening.
By the way, you should read the whole interview and give yourself a point for every buzz word or phrase that’s been used to death against EDM… Purists…Deeper… ‘The EDM bubble will burst!’
Oh no! Betcha didn’t think of that, did ya?
The number of people annoyed at what can be so obviously misconstrued as snobbery has risen; A-Trak has even displayed similar sentiments on his Facebook page:
It’s difficult to understand why people can be so snooty about EDM. The ‘I heard these guys on a forum years before you’ comments and the constant plebeian implications given to certain types of music, baffles me. Who cares? At the start of LFO’s groundbreaking acid-house debut Frequencies, a distorted voice declares, “House. In the future, We hope our music will bring everyone a little closer together, Gay, straight, black or white, One nation under a groove.”
Although this kind of romantic sentiment was typical of house music at the time, it’s times like this when it’s difficult to see traces of it today. It’s as if some seem to say, “Certainly you’re all welcome here, as long as you listen to the music we want you to listen to.”
Ultimately, on this side of the Atlantic, it’s even harder to judge their true actions but I honestly imagine it’s mostly a brilliant marketing scheme in one the busiest EDM capitals of the world. Certainly, they’ve spotted a rather sweet ‘niche’ to exploit and they’re more than welcome to it. So why must we draw attention to it? Honestly, there’s other things I’d rather be writing about.
But any publicity is good publicity I suppose. Sure, look at Lindsay Lohan.
And all in all, this will be a distant memory, soon enough.
honestly i dont like hipster-ism, i hate it.. but as some who goes to clubs. i applaud this club in a sense… i am tired of these big one room house tracks.. they all sound the same.. and the drops are terrible, great builds that always disappoint me when the wood clave shit comes on…
Good read Brendan. I enjoy it.
How is Deadmau5 pop art??
What’s the problem here? If the people at XS said “Don’t play Country”, we’d all wonder at the obviousness of this statement. If an afterhours club says “don’t play mainstream music” why, then, do we get offended? Leave mainstream to the superclubs like XS, where Afrojack and Zedd can sell their souls to corporate sponsorships. Let the afterhours clubs have their way.
More clubs should have this rule. As you can see it only pisses off the newbies. And a trak is only sad because of the hip hop portion and without van helden there would be no duck sauce. This rule is golden for everything the underground who built this scene stands on. These club owners clearly are deep in the game of house and feel just like anyone else who watched this scene go to shit. ThankGod there are people risking their reputation to prove we are the music and the people are the problem. This new fad that blankets these commercial artists and purchases the microwave dj setups make me sick and they destroyed what used to be artistic. All these kids that have something to say have no clue what it felt like to apart of sonething that was real. So none of you have room to say anything because u have no skin to the game.
The ACTUAL full story can be found here:
http://djoybeat.com/the-full-story-behind-after-las-vegas-dj-rules-viral-sensation/
I love those rules. At an after hours event, I wanna hear tech house/techno/minimal/deep house or at least house music with nice grooves and rhythms, not that mainstream big room banger crap
How can this club go without playing music from the best djs in the world. Obviously they are still in the phsy trance bullshit thats all dead.
What exactly is YourEDM’s stance, I read here all the time about the issues this club refer to in their statement- ghost producers and the banality of the current trends in prog house. Yet you call this “snobbery”?
EDM in the United States is a fucking joke. Atleast it seems so from this side of the world. They don’t really aprreciate electronic music, they’re just going along with it because its the new ‘in’ thing