EDM: From Underground Raves To Sold Out Festivals | Superstar DJs With Annie Mac 

I’ve been looking for a good electronic music documentary for so long and I’ve found it

I remember the 1st rave I went to. Ecstacy and house music. Wit a little trance to wind down at the end of the night.

1993 - Denver, Colorado. You’d get a phone number, and you couldn’t find out where the party was until around midnight.

I went to my first rave in the uk in 91, it was an amazing time to be young. Im pretty old now 😂 i can't imagine carl cox playing Bridlington again 😂( the first time i saw him live) each to their own, it's changed beyond all recognition for me. Not my thing anymore, bul like i say, im a fossil now 😂

what a throwback loved when I found bbc radio the early 2000 sets are some of the greatest ever. great times

I got into “EDM” in the mid 90s . Minus a few artist & DJs I didn’t think it was as big in USA as other countries till the 2010s . It’s interesting to see Dance music follow the similar path that Rock & Hip Hop took from , home grown/underground/street culture ; to massive corporate sponsored festivals and superstar DJs 🤔

Can we get a updated part 2? So much has changed from when this was filmed

@17:40 so incredibly at its truest! I’m from Southern California and I started raving in 1996 at 14 years old. Most of the raves I went to was either LA County or San Bernardino county where there is a lot of space and plenty of room to dance under the stars in the desert or in the forest. I know Los Angeles was held 2nd in the club scene opposed to New York, but if you were as young as I was at the time I could only get into all ages raves particularly at the Orange show San Bernardino. We called these raves “OnE Offs” they were not clubs, and xtc wasn’t really It, It was really acid moving around and I’ll never forget this experience!!

I've been waiting for this.

That Slim on the beach party was insane.100% organically happened. Not a huge light rig.Just pure vibes.

I cant stop laughing at that bandage on his forehead lmao

This is a good documentary

13:21 "Playing actual records" followed by clip of him using timecode vinyl lol

Everyone's come to watch someone play records. That sums it up.

As a old 90's raver from Orlando, Sasha was the first real SuperStar DJ. Confused how he's left out of this... Otherwise, good documentary.

My parents offered to send me to a music school. I interviewed at AIM, Atlanta Institute of Music, the owner/president said my kinda music isn’t real music. He offered a flash in the pan argument. I went on producing drum and bass self taught. That was over 25 years ago.

Id rather go to a underground party any time.

Why not include LA? La is definitely one of the hotspots if not the number one spot

This makes me miss Sankey’s even more 😭

Paul Oakenfold invented business techno

What about NYC? club USA, palladium, limelight, twilo, soundfactory, exit. Big chunk of the history of house, trance and techno resided here. If your gonna tell the story, don't leave out one of the most important chapters.

RIP AVICII

EDM is the pr corporate and advertising marketing of mainstream pop electronic music to make money from a genre that has been around for fifty years and not just since the 1990's - 2000s . it's all about money and fame and not the music anymore. most modern superstar DJs just press play and pose because thay made the mix already in ableton instead of working the room or crowd live. I beleive when the legends start disapear the scene will fade away too for another scene to replace it.

I’m Appalled, That Big City Beats World Club Dome Didn’t Get The Recognition, they So Deserved for Broadcasting EDM from Space, through a Joint Collaboration with NASA and The European Space Station.

anybody please I need the song at 18:00 sooo good🙏❤️

Very irritating that she actually thinks this all just started in the US and her little "history" starts in 2014. I rolled my eyes right along with Chicane (who I hero worship! 🥰🦄)

Mainstream America sucks. It always has and they are always so behind and who cares. Too much attention is given to the American mainstream. Pay attention to the Large cities in America where music scenes are invented and spread all over the world I.E. Disco, Hip Hop, Punk, New Wave, Free-Style, HI-NRG, House, Techno, and Grunge all started in American large cities

rave > show

The amount of screaming into a microphone during a set is a weird trend. You never heard a DJ back in the day. They let their mix speak for them and the crowd could get lost in the music. Now every drop is disrupted with the same few orders. Buzzkill

Just watched this series and I'm a little disappointed with it. Title says from underground raves to sold out festivals yet its only about the modern day superstars. What ever happened to the guys that built that such as Rat pack, Grooverider, Micky finn, Slipmat etc yes Carl Cox is on it to name but a few. These superstar DJ guys would be nothing without them building "rave". Yes, Rave was a product of E but E was successful because of rave however the modern day EDM guys have no idea of those days where the big festivals came from (fantazia and the rest). From what I've seen on here and tv etc the new edm scene is for the gorgeous people, not the people

I remember when the DJ was that guy with the yard full of rusty modified civics and nobody liked him until their sons got married...

Techno Pop ?

To me, mainstream EDM seems a very, very far cry from the post-Disco Mid 80s House and Techno from Chicago/Detroit and the Acid House and UK Rave scene. Musically a lot of it feels like lowest common denominator Dance influenced Pop music aimed at a predominantly white, good looking, affluent bikini girl and musclebound douche-bro crowd. To me Dance music should be a bit more sweaty, more working-class, a bit uglier, a bit less hetero and a lot more inclusive. It all comes across a bit like the Nü Metal/Fast food version of Dance music to me.

I hate the term EDM. House, techno, trance is my preferred term EDM is a relative new term

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RSPX 2 ANNIE MAC!!! It became da opposite of wat it was & wat we lived & pushed!!! Fn' sell out$!!! Jmho...😢🤔🤬

Addendum to the title ( without watching this film )…and the wake of mediocrity that commercialism left behind.

As an American EDM to me is trendy ass mashups and high energy vocal garbage. Americans still don’t know what real techno and real house is unless you live in Miami, LA or New York, or Chicago.

I get the feeling but this documentary is mainstream it is really rubbing me up the wrong way I am 16 minutes in and I feel very irritated

Love the scene and business aspects of this, but hate what the music has become.

This dude hating on Vegas is a loser. I've lived in Vegas since 2000, been to about 60 countries, and Vegas is one of the best spots on the planet, especially for EDM music. I'm so happy living here. Sounds like this guy knows nothing but The Strip. That's his fault. We have that, but also Area 15, Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, EDC, and many other awesome places for EDM music. This whole documentary is mid. Can't wait to watch "What We Started" like some others have recommended

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