How will Canada/Vancouver make the world dance?

As relatively new mass consumers of dance music, North Americans are considered very open-minded within the DJ community. Artists can play sets which cross numerous genres and the crowd will eat up every minute. Honestly who doesn’t love a little dub in their electro, or a little house in their trance? I say rip down rigid outdated boundaries wherever you can! It allows the audience to fully enjoy a musical journey through the entirety of the complex and multidimensional world of EDM.  

More specifically though, what about Canada? What unique spin does Canada have to offer the world of EDM? To name a few, here are some of the contributions Canada has given the world of dance: Deadmau5, Excision, Datsik, MSTRKRFT, Zeds Dead, Felix Cartel, Sultan, Ned Shepard, A-Trak, and Adventure Club.

But what does this amount to?

For the first time in twelve years a Trance DJ was not ranked number one in DJ Magazines top 100 poll. In the early 1980s Chicago gave birth to House music, the genre currently topping both DJ Magazines poll and top40 charts around the world: of all House DJs David Guetta is the hit-making-genre-crossing king of dance cheese.  This genre shift can safely be attributed to the surge in popularity of EDM in North America. We like our beats big, heavy, and in your face.

But is that it? Is the Canadian mark on the international EDM scene going to be limited to  assisting the world in popularizing an American style of music? Vancouver is a bustling enclave of culture teeming with eager citizens dying to dance. So what’s next? What does Canada have to offer in the evolution of EDM? Will Vancouver leave its mark? Or will we fade into the masses following trends when we could be making them and forging the future of EDM.

I say we choose to dance and take the world by storm. But how?

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