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.com ANNUAL DANCE MUSIC INDUSTRY GATHERING RECOGNISES US SUCCESS
IMS Ibiza celebrates EDM’s global takeover
DANCE BY TINA HART
E
lectronic Dance Music (EDM) is riding a wave – and annual industry
summit IMS in Ibiza was full of cautious celebration last week. The event was underpinned
by the IMS Business Report, which estimated the total worth of the global EDM sector across live, merchandise, recordings and elsewhere at $4bn. A community spirit was
certainly in the air as the 500 delegates, including the great and good of the international dance music scene, touched down at the Gran Hotel in Ibiza. This year the prominent chat
touched on the terming of ‘EDM’, the current boom of the scene in America (in addition to other territories, as the Australia/ India panel explored), celebrating the legends that have been (Cox and Oakenfold, Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder) whilst recognising and praising newer talent (Guetta and Diplo, Loco Dice and Luciano) in addition to the younger generations that now consume the music. In his keynote interview with
Paul Oakenfold on Thursday, IMS co-founder Ben Turner voiced his support for the terming of EDM. “This industry needs things that people outside of it can tag onto and comprehend,” he said. “After 20 years people have a name for American dance music.” Then Oakenfold, who’s now
involved in creating music for films in Hollywood, added: “I’m enjoying trying to kick start a community in America – it’s really refreshing, a real chance to start something. We can really brand our community in terms of the electronic world. America has just now got into it… now is the time for our community and I’m enjoying it. Society puts a number on you but you don’t have to stop.” Elsewhere, in his keynote
interview with Joshua Glazer of
Oakey dokey: DJ Paul Oakenfold graces the stage at Dalt Vila
between renowned German DJ and producer Loco Dice and Carl Cox followed Rodgers and was also full of positivity and laughter. Commenting on the current
Photos: Tom Horton
EDM explosion in the US, Loco Dice said: “Any explosion, any thing that can rise our music up is great. It has to grow, it can grow and it is growing healthily. “Let the Americans have their
Diving in with Nile: Pete Tong looks on as Nile Rodgers chats to the audience
explosion – we control it, we’re from Europe; with all the respect to the US DJs, and believe me a lot of them are pissed off about that situation. There are so many egos, people living in their own world... in Ibiza we work together; this keeps us strong. So let it explode, great times!” Scene pioneer Cox added:
Urb, DJ and producer Diplo acknowledged the “excited, smarter and more open-minded kids” that are consuming dance music in 2012, but also pointed out a negative impact on music sales: “I think in America the dance scene keeps growing but it’s almost becoming a place where it’s so predictable now. “Kids, once they do it once or
twice, they’re not even listening to the music anymore. They have money but they’re not spending it on music – they go buy drinks and go see DJs.”
A highlight of the conference
programme was a session with Nile Rodgers of Chic fame. He held the audience captivated with stories from the early Chic days (did you know Freak Out originally started out as ‘Fuck Off’?), the trials and tribulations the group faced, as well as parties at the infamous Studio 54 and a healthy dose of name-dropping. The room was in fits of laughter and applauding throughout, culminating in a standing ovation for the innovator who also jammed his way through the session on the guitar. The banter-filled conversation
THE DELEGATE VOTE IMS 2012
THE 500 VISITORS TO IMS GAVE THEIR OPINION ON SOME OF DANCE’S BIGGEST ISSUES – AND IT GARNERED SOME CONTROVERSIAL RESULTS:
Do you want to see the formation of an industry body to represent electronic music?
YES 79%
Did James Barton do the right thing by selling Cream to Live Nation? YES 58% Is there space for Creamfields in the North American festival market? YES 76% Is the American dance music explosion just a fad? Do you think peer to peer can help your business? Have you been approached to sell your business in 2012? Will you still be listening to electronic music in your sixties? Is there an age limit to DJing?
YES 52% YES 79% YES 21% YES 92% YES 23%
“It’s a good thing – it’s taken a long time to get to this point. As European DJs we add essence to why it exists. It’s fantastic that America now has something, in America.” On the first day of IMS,
Cream Holdings founder James Barton, whose business was recently sold to Live Nation for £13.9m, said: “There wouldn’t be an electronic scene if it wasn’t for David Guetta - calling on critics to lay off the French DJ. And on the last day of the summit, disco producer legend Giorgio Moroder echoed Barton’s sentiment: “David Guetta has made dance music really interesting again. What he did by combining the good quality of sounds with the quality of R&B- like voices has fitted so well.” Moroder, who confirmed he is
working on the new Daft Punk record with Nile Rodgers, declared the health of dance music in what many at IMS agreed is a strong time for the sound: “It’s great now; I think dance is pop – I listen to the radio in LA and that station only plays pop meaning they only play what people want to hear. So dance is absolutely back.”
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