As lights strobed and basslines thundered throughout continents, a cultural revolution was quietly unraveling behind the DJ sales space.
The directorial debut from journalist Alexei Barrionuevo, Ready for the Drop: Rise of the Celebrity DJs, is a blisteringly trustworthy have a look at the style’s actuality over the past decade, that includes candid interviews with digital music heavyweights together with Tiësto, Carl Cox, Hardwell, Nervo, and extra. Shot between 2013 and 2023, the movie captures pivotal moments in the course of the world EDM increase in real-time, onstage, backstage, and behind closed doorways.
From its early tales within the U.Ok., Netherlands, and Ibiza in the course of the 80s and 90s to its North American crossover second within the 2010s, the movie charts EDM’s euphoric ascent. Nevertheless it doesn’t flinch from the darkish facet both, together with the rise of SFX Leisure and its dramatic collapse, in addition to the affect of social media on DJ tradition and fan expectations.
Barrionuevo, a former Billboard Editor, positions EDM not merely as a sound, however as a generational identification. “EDM was a pivot level in trendy youth tradition,” he says. “A time when Millennials, searching for one thing of their very own, seized a possibility to create a tribe.”
The movie is ready for a world digital launch later this summer time through Indie Rights, starting with a launch on Amazon.
