Electronic Dance Music and Culture Researchers
People
Name | Affiliation | Interests | Website |
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Abreu, Carolina de Camargo | Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil) | rave, celebration, dance, body techniques, electronic dance music, ecstasy; the anthropology of experience, the anthropology of performance, Walter Benjamin and anthropology; ethnographic video. | |
Adamek, Cathy | University of South Australia, Hawke Institute | Relationship between motor cities Adelaide and Detroit as sites of early techno production, dance floor/club as improvisational performance space, early hip-hop girl power prototypes Betty Boo, Monie Love, Cookie Crew, Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, microentrepreneurialism; punk to no-wave to rave | |
Albiez, Sean | London South Bank University | Early Electronic Music History (1890s-1930s); German Electronic Music of the 1970s; Kraftwerk; Brian Eno; Music Technology in Electronic Music; Music Production Analysis; Techno; IDM; Electronica; EBM; Post Punk; The Velvet Underground | link |
Anderson, Tammy | University of Delaware | Electronic dance music, popular culture, identity, deviance, inequality, youth culture, sociology of culture, medicalization, cultural criminology | |
Attias, Bernardo | California State University Northridge | DJ cultures; ritual and EDM; technology and the body; the question of authenticity; cultural hybridity; politics and EDM; consciousness; race; urban space; and much much more... | |
Balli, Riccardo | Accademia Italiana DJ | Post-rave sounds: from 8 bit, to breakcore, to hard/gabber culture. And more. | link |
Bates, Eliot | University of Maryland | Turkish music, recording studios, California underground raves, the interplay between electronic dance music production and avant-garde music composition, collaborative bibliography projects | link |
Bock, Seneca | Social Innovators Design Group | EDM role in social connectedness; future trends in new music; cultural diversity and global harmonic sound systems | |
Booth, Paul | Manchester Metropolitan University | Rave/Post-Rave Culture Aesthetics, Rave Culture in Cinema, Youth Culture, Social Studies, Drugs, Media Representations, Free Party Scence, Political Formations and Sub-Groups, Neo-Tribes Theory, Technotibes Theory, Documentary, Fictional Representations, UK Scene. | |
Boritz, Jason | VIBES DOCUMENTARY | I am producing a documentary on evolution of electronic dance music and dance culture. Any help with articles, flyers, research, pictures would be greatly appreciated. I am also learning about the subject, the scene, the music and the culture so I have a great deal of information and resources as well | |
Breyley, GJ | Monash University | Iran, Iranian diaspora | |
Breinl, Christiana | University of Vienna (Austria) | free tekno movement (global/local); sound system culture; free party scenes as temporary,autonomous zones; dancing, trance and unconsciousness on the dancefloors; electronic music (acidtekno,hardtekno,jungle,drum and bass,dub,psytrance,electro)and its social and cultural manifestations | |
Brook, Eric | Full Sail University (Orlando, Florida) | Composition, theory, and the production of EDM. | link |
Buck-Matthews, Eveleigh | Coventry University | Music festivals. Young people and their tribes, scenes and spaces. Rave. Participatory & creative methods. Drug discourses. TAZ & Liminal Spaces. | link |
Butler, Mark J | Northwestern University | Musical organization; rhythm and temporality; performance; relationships between technology, improvisation, and composition; gender and sexuality | |
Castagner, Marc-Olivier | University of Ottawa | (Québec's) Psytrance Events and Spirituality; Peace-Experiences, Atmospheric Consciousness, Ecstasy; Trans-Personnalism/Rationalism; Conflict, Security and Peace Studies, Conflict Resolution; Cultural Studies, Media and Communications; Political Theory and Continental Philosophy | link |
Colasanti, Natale | Wayne State University | Dance music culture and development of interpersonal relationships within the culture, the communication within the culture, social disclosure within the dance culture | |
Conner, Christopher | University of Nevada Las Vegas (USA) | Visual Sociology, Club Cultures, Gender, Culture, and Community. | |
D'Errico, Mike | University of California, Los Angeles | Production techniques in hip-hop, virtual performance ethics, chiptune and video game music, bass frequencies and sonic embodiment | link |
da Costa Amorim, Luciana | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ( Brasil) | electronic dance music, political interest and perception, comparative studies. | link |
Dalphond, Denise | Indiana University | Electronic dance music in Detroit, African American music and culture, history, genre, and performance | link |
DiGiacomo, Cristina | Masters of Science, The New School, New York City | The DJ creative process, DJ culture and industry. In depth research with DJs on the current state of the artistry, creative process literature, and audience perspectives on dance music. | |
Diotalevi, Lisa | University of Strasbourg (France) | ethnographer / visual anthropology Free parties and teknivals across Europe, Psychedelic Trance, Dark Dance. | link |
Duivenvoorde, Koen | Free University, Amsterdam (Netherlands) | Dutch and European freetekno-scenes; underground and freeparty scenes; rave, dance, and youth culture; ideology vs. hedonism in youth culture; subcultural vs. post-subcultural theory; modernist vs. postmodernist youthcultural theory; qualitative research in urban settings more generally. | |
Earp, Matt | School of Information, UC Berkeley (USA) | Organization of Music, Organization of Info about Music, Dissemination of Info about Music, Dissemination of Music, Peer-2-Peer, Music and Social Networks, Licensing, Music Genres, Live Events, Artistic/Event Crews and Cultures, Localization of Dance Music, Hip-Hop as Dance Music, Sampling, Remix Culture, Concepts of DJing, Dubstep, Breakcore, Baltimore Club, Bloghouse, Music Journalism | link |
Farrugia, Rebekah | Western Michigan Unviersity | women and gender studies, sexuality, computer-mediated-communication, social-networking, DJ culture, media and EDM production | |
Fernandez, Silvestre | University of Manchester (United Kingdom) | Detroit Techno music, African-American popular music, electronic dance music, globalization and resistance, grass-roots vs top-down music industry, cultural and subcultural studies. Appropriation, theft, borrowing and sampling in dance music history. Disco and House music. | |
Ferrigno, Emily | Yale University Music Library | jungle/drum 'n' bass; affect; sampling; technology and creativity; gender | |
Fink, Robert | University of California, Los Angeles | minimalism and repetition culture; teleology in groove-based musics; interaction between EDM and the "classical" avant-garde; breakbeat hardcore; sampling; music and technology | |
Fraser, Alistair | Maynooth University, Ireland | Drum & bass music; cultural economy; economic, political and cultural geography; various other interests | link |
Gadir, Tami | University of Oslo | Global DJ & dance music cultures; sociology of music; cultural policy; agency/equality/diversity/accessibility in music communities; the politics of technology; theories of the posthuman/nonhuman. | link |
Garcia, Luis-Manuel | University of Birmingham | techno, house, and its minimal subgenres; affect; public culture; tourism & gentrification; urban studies; EDM scenes of Europe and North America; gender & sexuality; intimacy and solidarity | link |
Gates, Carrie | University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) | Avant turntablism, breakcore and gabba, experience and aesthetics, VJ-DJ interaction, music visualization, performative space, DJ orchestras, "the journey", the role of the "fantastic", "Postcolonialism" and technology, somatic knowledge, DIY culture and anti-capitalism, Human-Computer Interaction and nightclub technology. | link |
Gauthier, Francois | Sciences des religions, UQAM (Quebec) | Subcultures in general including house and techno, the Burning Man festival; consumerism as a cultural ethos; subcultural politics; ritualism; neopaganism; contemporary religiosities; etc. | link |
Gavanas, Anna | Uppsala University (Sweden) | Electronic dance music & technology & spirituality. Gender, sexuality, ethnicity & DJing in Berlin, London & Stockholm. Plus exploring the regionz of dub | link |
Goldschmitt, Kariann | University of California, Los Angeles | Brazilian electronica, acid jazz, world music hybrids, house, experimental techno. | |
Grayson, Kyle | University of Newcastle Upon Tyne | critical security studies, the securitization of everyday life, biopolitics, popular culture and global politics | |
Haberfeld, David | Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne | Composing real-time Acid and Techno. How studio and performance based practices inform the creation of Acid, Techno and other EDM styles. Machine-led aesthetic to composing - music hardware technology focus. | link |
Hall, Jo | University of Surrey (UK) | UK Drum 'n' Bass, dance analysis, youth and popular music sub/club cultures, identity politics | |
Holt, Fabian | University of Roskilde (Denmark) | Popular musics, esp. in the US and Europe. Concert and club culture, music public spheres, social and political culture in and around music. Ethnography, performance theory, and cultural theory of music. | |
Hunt, Geoffrey | Institute for Scientific Analysis | Youth cultures, identity, electronic dance music culture, dance, raves and clubs and the culture of drug use | link |
Hyndman, Sheena | York University | EDM, remix, media ecology, critical theory, history of technology, performance as text. | |
James, Martin | Southampton Solent University (England) | Jungle/ drum'n'bass, French electronic musics and their associated histories. Post-genre formations in electronica, breakbeat and techno. The creation of myth in the post-rave era | |
Jasen, Paul | Carleton University, Cultural Mediations (Ottawa, Canada) | Bodies and sound, sonic geographies, networked culture, black Atlantic music cultures/futurisms, media ecologies. Publisher of Riddim.ca, a North American grime and dubstep hub. | link |
Johner, Andrew | Appalachian State University | Spirituality and mysticism of electronic dance music culture, 2012 millennialism, religion and the anthropology of consciousness, psytrance | |
Lasén, Amparo | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | Sociology, electronic dance music culture, clubs, technology, how sound spaces are created, mediations, co-constitution offline and online experiences and relationships, affects. | |
Leeds, Adam | University of Pennsylvania | Electronic dance music culture (particularly psytrance); face to face interaction; cultural flows; economic globalization and state power | |
Lindop, Rob | University of Salford | Psy-trance music/culture; UK free festivals; popular musicology; dance music scenes; subcultural studies. | |
Luckman, Susan | University of South Australia (Australia) | Outdoor dance music events; EDMC activism; DiY Cultures | link |
Lugo-Elías, César | Universidade do Porto, Portugal | I explore the after-parties as an experiential phenomena, positioning Design as the trigger of the aesthetic of belonging; Design as the trigger of hedonistic practices; Design as mediator in the interaction among technology and humans; Design as core discipline in the process of technology embodiment; and after-parties as spaces of negotiation of identity. My background is product and interaction Design as well as Design Research. I am an ethnography enthusiast bu currently working with grounded theory. | |
Lysloff, Rene | University of California, Riverside | Music and technoculture, rave shamanism, New Age religiosity, music and supermodernity, online global music communities/networks, ecstatic/trance behavior, laptop live performance, new creative processes, performativity/(dis)embodiment. Specific music electronica, IDM, braindance, ambient, trance, New Age, world music hybrids, laptop folk, post-digital, and electronic-electric fusions. | |
Madden, David | Concordia University (Montreal, QC) | sound studies; electronic/popular music; electronic music history; electroclash; studio culture; DJ culture | |
Madrid, Alejandro L | Cornell University | Critical and Cultural Musicology; Latin American Art and Popular Musics; Electronic Dance Music; Sound Studies; Late 19th- and 20th-Century Western Art Music; Transnational History; Border Studies; Performance Theory; Globalization and Postnationality | link |
Magaudda, Paolo | Dept of Sociology, University of Padova (Italy) | Technology, music and sound culture; Popular music in Italy; techno and other dance-based subcultures; History of Italian electronic and dance music; local dance scenes; tacit knowledge in electronic music practices | |
Malone, Seamus | London Consortium | Detroit Techno, Chicago House, Tech-House, Walter Benjamin, Fredric Jameson. | link |
Mann, Larisa | Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley (Law) | The relation between copyright/property law and creative practice, Jamaican musical practice, sound systems, technology surveillance and rights, decentered creativity, destroying the author/consumer framework, fan culture. Also see http://riddimmethod.net, http://wiretapmag.org | link |
Marsh, Charity | University of Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada) | Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Performance; DJ culture; rave culture in Canada; Canadian Indigenous Hip Hop; On-Line Social Networking; Community Radio; Electronic Dance Music | link |
McIver, Sharon | University of Canterbury, Aotearoa/New Zealand | The signficiance of the landscape to Aotearoa/NZ dance music and culture - tribalism, carnivalesque, TAZ. Also, the use of found sound sampling in Aotearoa electronic and roots-reggae music. | |
Moloney, Molly | Institute for Scientific Analysis | Youth cultures, gender, sexualities, club drugs, ethnicity, identity, dance scenes, Asian American youth, night-time economy | link |
Moore, Karenza | Lancaster University | EDM clubbing, particularly prog/tech trance scenes; 'recreational' drug use in EMD clubbing times and spaces, emergent patterns of drug use (ketamine, GBL, and MDMA powder/crystal); religion and spirituality; transformative potentialities of clubbing; criminalisation of club drugs, clubs and clubbers; war on drugs discourses; UK drug policy; scenes, subcultures, neo-tribes; night-time economies; mainstream/underground dichotomies; club and club drug studies - ethics, insider/ousider status/knowledge, and reflexivity; club survey methdologies; club and club drug ethnographies; harm reduction for clubbers. | |
Moore, Madison | Yale University | electronic dance music, club cultures as performance, dj cultures, gender and sexuality, live events, indie scenes | link |
Morey, Justin | Leeds Beckett University | sampling, copyright law, copyright management, music industry, UK dance music | |
Morrison, Simon | University of Leeds (UK) | The enculturation of the rave scene: the process by which the nascent rave scene was culturally exposed by its representation in film, literature and the media | link |
Morrissey, Lillian | University of Sydney | alternative and underground electronic music, ie(psytrance, drum and bass, jungle, breaks, grime, dubstep,etc) and politics, the relationship between the two, underground music as a political movement (this link leads to a work in progress which may be interesting and which is constantly being updated) | link |
O'Grady, Alice | University of Leeds | Play, participation and performance practices. Risk, critical vulnerability and participatory practices. Radical pedagogy. Festival cultures. Psytrance scenes and communities of practice. Women and club cultures. | link |
Payling, Dave | Staffordshire University | Audio visual composition and the intersection between visual music and Electronic music composition. Abstract visuals and sound. Practise based research and music composition. Popular musical genres in visual music. Dance and beat based music composition. I am ‘From the Floor’ section editor of Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture | link |
Peter, Beate | University of Saldord | EDM and trance, music psychology, unconscious processes on the dance floor, dance as communication | |
Petiau, Anne | Université Paris 5 | Sociology, musical experience in electronic music (club, rave, free party), musicians (creativity, modes of commitment), youth subcultures, electronic music in the wider frame of popular music. Also see http://gremes.ceaq-sorbonne.org | link |
Phillips, Matthew | Deakin University Melbourne | Bush doofs, EDM, Egalitarianism, Religion | |
Ratcliffe, Robert | Keele University (UK) | New forms of hybrid musical discourse; the influence of technology on musical language; sampling and imitative transformation in EDM. | |
Rauh, Andreas | University of Leeds | Cultural Production; Political Economy of Media and Digital Technologies; Grassroots Musicians; Cultural Labour; Popular Music; Electronic Dance Music; Dance Music Cultures; New Media and Society; Music Making; Music and Technology; DJ Culture; EDM in the Global South; Remix Culture. | link |
Rietveld, Hillegonda | London South Bank University | Electronic dance music cultures; DJ cultures; global cultures in local contexts; mediation of music cultures; dancefloor subjectivities | link |
Rodkey, Christopher | Lebanon Valley College | Noise in liturgical arts, theological interpretations of industrial music, US Christian electronic music scene | |
Rowley, Margaret | Michigan State University | Techno; house; women and gender roles in electronic music; minimalism; popular and art music relationships | link |
Rugolo, Jennifer | University College Cork (NUI) | Invented traditions; the concepts of tradition and innovation within UEDM; transmission processes; pedagogical approaches to teaching DJ technique, taste, and philosophy; sub- vs. super-culture; the creation of ideology and mythology; the vinyl/digital debate; DJ culture. | |
Seago, Alex | Richmond American University London | Cultural globalization and electronic music, Krautrock. | link |
St John, Graham | University of Huddersfield | Electronic dance music cultures, anthropology of ritual and religion, transformational event cultures, psytrance, Burning Man, Terence McKenna | link |
Sylvester, Sara | Cardiff University - Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies | I am presently doing a practice PhD in photography and digital narratives. My main interests are Rave/Post-Rave Culture Aesthetics, Rave Culture in Cinema and Novels, Youth Culture, Social Studies, Drugs, Media Representations, Women and Subcultures | link |
Thille, Todd | artificialeyes.tv | Visualization of music in the dance club setting. | link |
Till, Rupert | University of Huddersfield, UK | Composing EDMC; Musicological study of EDMC (musical structures, forms, harmonies, rhythm etc.); Ambient/chill out music/IDM; Trance, entrancement and entrainment; EDMC and religion, spirituality & reenchantment; Influence of EDMC on Christianity; Club culture and popular music; Development of UK EDMC from 1986; EDMC in northern England; Sampling and postmodernity; Appropriation of African American dance cultures by other cultures | link |
Vályi, Gábor | Budapest University of Technology and Economics | Grass-roots processes of cultural transnationalisation, subcultural economies, alternative canon formation. I'm writing my PhD on "crate digging", a hip hop related vinyl record collecting subculture. | link |
van Straaten, Eva-Maria | University of Amsterdam | musical experience, psytrance, space in music-music in space, cultural analysis, difference | |
van Veen, Tobias C | McGill University (Montreal, Canada) | Dept. Philosophy and Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies. Philosophy of technology & philosophy of technology. Technoculture & AfroFuturism, renegade theory & soundsystem piracy. Foundations of the polis in ritual, faith & rave culture, anarcho-techno | link |
Vitos, Botond | Leuphana University of Lüneburg | popular music studies; event-cultures; electronic dance music culture; genre classification in machine learning; the Burning Man movement | link |
Walker, Adam | James Cook University (Australia) | Altered states of consciousness in ritual, healing, performance and social psychology; contexts of neutral socialisation; psychedelic trance culture; musicology. | |
Weinel, Jon | Aalborg University | Altered states of consciousness in electronic music and audio-visual media, including: shamanic art and music, psychedelic rock, sound system music, rave music, electroacoustic music, experimental film, visual music, VJ culture, video games, virtual reality applications and other immersive mixed-reality technologies. I explore these areas as both an artist/practitioner and theorist. | link |
Winant, Lou | University of Washington | Drum and bass; jungle | |
Schelvis, Sydney | University of Amsterdam | Embodiment, physical reception, synthetic voices, social implications of (underground) club culture, architectural dimensions of the club, gentrification and heterogenisation, nightlife regulation, MCing as social act, suomisaundi, grayscale techno, | link |
Lew, Benjamin F | University of Melbourne | Australian and international psytrance festival culture; aesthetics, musicality and spirituality; liminality and consciousness; possession and subjectivity; connection to land, neoprimitivism, techno-tribalism and rites of passage. The existential and corporeal power of music; the social and cultural reality of aesthetics. | |
Liechti, Hannes | Bern University of the Arts | Sampling in Experimental Electronic Music | link |
Michielse, Maarten | Lancaster University, UK | Remix culture, digital media, mashups, skills, (informal) learning, (digital) media literacy | link |
Egolf, Eva J | City School District of New Rochelle | DJ learning processes, house music, NYC clubbing culture | |
Young, Toby | University of Oxford | EDM and philosophy; temporality, ritual and repetition; aesthetics; DJ culture; production and songwriting | link |
Cookney, Daniel | University of Salford | EDM and anonymity; Sample culture; Audio-visual relations; House & techno; Graphic design; Music video | link |
Kolioulis, Alessio | London South Bank University | Electronic Dance Music Culture, Social Ecology, Urban Studies, Human Geography, Aesthetics | link |
Bougaïeff, Nicolas | Huddersfield University | EDM production, DJing and live performance with a particular focus on techno. PhD thesis on minimal techno, Richie Hawtin / Plastikman. Practice-based and practice-led research. Analysing EDM with traditional music theory and spectromorphological analysis. Releasing records on Novamute, Mesh (Max Cooper), Traum Schallplatten, Trapez and other underground vinyl labels | link |
Whelan, Andrew | University of Wollongong | Peer-to-peer file-sharing; sampling aesthetics and politics; gender, music and technology; music online; virtual music scenes; digital music collecting and sharing | link |
Palombini, Carlos | Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) | Musique concrète history and theory; funk carioca history, theory and analysis | link |
Gilli, Lorenz | University of Siegen (Germany), Dept. of Media Studies | DJ culture, aesthetics, mediality and performativity of the DJ-set/DJ-performance, auditive dramaturgy, sound studies, Goa- and Psy-Trance | link |
Nye, Sean | University of Southern California | German electronic music, science fiction, Afrofuturism, minimalism, rave culture, all the cores (hardcore, trancecore, breakcore, gabber, happy hardcore, etc.), trance, techno, and krautrock | link |
Kushin, Marc | University of Bremen | Media Technology and Mediation/Mediatization; Mobility; Space and Place; Rave culture's relationship with mobility; Music Production; Sound Studies; Methodologies in Media Studies | |
Karampampas, Panas | École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), France | EBM, Greece, Germany, Goth Scene, Digital Anthropology, Anthropology of Dance, Cosmopolitanism, Diaspora and Migration | link |
Assiter, Ben | Goldsmiths, University of London | Electronic dance music cultures in London; relationship between music and social space; music scenes, communities and publics; urban change and gentrification; music and urban policy; night time economy; music and the night time | |
Doringer, Bogomir | University of Applied Arts, Vienna | Curating events on the topic of a dance of urgency. The return of political dances and rise and importance of crowds in contemporary times. | link |
Symmes, Tommy | Rice University | Musical experiences; aesthetics of alterity and alternative events in the american upper midwest | link |
Crawford, Kahlil O | Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management | Chicago House, Detroit Techno, New York Garage | |
Yiu, Alex | School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong | Underground "deconstructed" club music, online community, Hong Kong underground music scene, experimentalism in club music, post-internet music, music-oriented online platforms, online community culture, digital DJing, experimentalism | link |
Schaubruch, Josef | Leuphana University of Lüneburg | Liveness in electronic dance music cultures, live techno, production & performance practices | link |
Cannon, James | University of Leeds, School of Music | EDM and embodiment, DJ-audience interaction, synchrony, music & emotion, social bonding and well-being | link |
Dinis, Frederico | Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Coimbra | Ambient & Electronic music ; Club culture & Popular music; Performativity of memory; Ritual and performance. | link |
Daniel Ondřej | Charles University, Prague, CZ | Club cultures, rave, dub, gabber, hardbass, postsocialist Eastern Europe, social class, age, emotions, ecstatic practices, (de)politicization | link |
Deiana, Maria-Adriana | Queen's University, Belfast | Club cultures and/in contexts of armed conflict; entanglements between EDMC, militarism, political violence and resistance; feminist international relations and gender studies; embodiment, affect and intimacy; ethnography and creative methods in war/peace studies | link |
Anderson, Jacqueline | University of Central Lancashire | psytrance, psyculture, trance, religion, spirituality, dance, liminality, communitas, belonging, culture | link |
Dobos, Susanna | 5rhythms Movement Meditation | Connection between Body, BPM and Frequency, the healing capacities of the body; how to crack the Body Language Code with Electronic Music; The root of all disease and how to hold space for the healing Vibes | link |
Christodoulou, Chris | University of Westminster | AI, accelerationism, bass culture, breakbeats, industrial music, jungle drum and bass, residual media, video game cultures | link |
Emília Simão | University Portucalense | E-Ambient, Experiment E-music, Virtual E-music Events, Digitial Aesthetics, Media Arts, New Media | |
Mike Callander | RMIT University | DJ/performance technologies, EDM form, digital audio, DJ culture | |
Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette | California State University, Chico | dance music culture, authenticity, branding, augmented reality, whiteness, DJs, club culture | link |
Trottier-Pistien, Frédéric | Aix-Marseille University | Electronic and traditional music merges, club and festival ethnographies, techno music in France, bodies and affectivity on dancefloor. | link |
Chambers, Paul | University of Adelaide | Music Production, Creativity, Clubbing, Role of Digital Technologies | |
Smith, Jeremy W. | The Ohio State University | Music theory, music analysis, EDM festivals, EDM genres, house, trance, bass music, production techniques, fan culture |