THUMP Shorts: Best & Worst

Sometimes you have to take a step back from the pulsing lights and pounding subs of the club and evaluate what this is really all about. In an era where we’re constantly reassessing and reevaluating the relevance and fruitfulness of dance music’s foundational sounds and scenes, we thought it’d be good to hear the perspectives of a few of the producers at the genre’s heart to determine the state of electronic music’s present and future.

So for our latest THUMP short, recorded at the BPM Festival in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, we sat down with a wide-ranging cast of selectors and composers—including Gorgon City, Todd Edwards, Superfreq, tINi, and more—to answer a central question: What are the best and worst things about electronic music scene today? Throughout there’s praise for the global nature of the genre and the recent resurgence of vinyl-only sets, while others express concern for the role mainstream EDM plays in the culture, the sonic homogeneity that comes from having so many people working in the same field, and of course, “bad fashion.”

Check out all the reasons to be optimistic (and worried) about the state of dance music in THUMP’s “Best and Worst” short up above.

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