Electronic Music is Dying

It is 4:13 AM and I am working on finding references in reports about conflict minerals.  I think its the best time to write a blog post.  Thus, if you know me I really enjoy electronic music.  No, not the David Guetta bullshit blasting on the radios (yes its so damn catchy though and I hate myself for liking it even for a guilty pleasure.  I really enjoy old Tiesto, Above and Beyond, Sander Van Doorn, etc.  I also appreciate electro-house type stuff thats been getting released recently.  Yet, electronic music is being commercialized just as what has happened to rap.  For example, Lil Jon was at EDC.  What the fuck.  Also, I do not want to be labeled as an elitist (because I am not nor will have the music knowledge to become one), but having a horrible mainstream rapper at a place where its predominantly electronic music, means something is happening.  Even elitists can admit thats a problem.  People may argue that I should enjoy the fact that electronic music is becoming mainstream so more of it will be released.  Even though I agree with that statement, the quality of the music will be increasingly impaired.  Even though it was hard to find music before, it will be equally hard due to the constant sifting through dirt and rocks of shitty electronic music to find the true gems.  Yet like a burning house, I can only watch as the music producers pour more fuel onto the remnants of my loved genre of music.

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