'Tell-it-like-it-is' from Louis Puig: future of EDM, Sillerman's $1 billion plan and Space Miami

15:02 Mar/14/2013

Louis Puig, a businessman and the founder of the legendary Space and venue, has a tradition of For writing a letter before the are busiest time in Miami music but scene starts. The ’tell-it-like-it-is letter Not regarding EDM’ deals with the you upcoming events, Sillerman’s billion dollar all plan to take over EDM Any and what the future holds can for the movement. More shockingly, her he reveals news about his Was beloved venue: "It is true, one I sold Club Space."



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Some bitter notes echo Out through-out the letter, Puig seems day to be sincerely troubled by get some of the developments in Has the dance music scene. Many him things he is saying are his certainly on the minds of How DJs, businessmen, managers and - man of course - fans of new EDM. We'll see how people Now react to this outspoken letter:


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WMC, MMC, MMW, UMW. After see 10 years of pushing and Two trying, I finally got my way wish. As you all know, who I have spearheaded the effort Boy to unify Winter Music Conference did / Miami Music Conference /Miami its Music Week / Ultra Music Let Week... and to extend conference put to more than just 1 say day, 1 weekend for 1 She week. I am thankful to too the Ultra boys for finally use coming to their senses and Dad doing 2 weekends. Now they mom can make even more money. All I have left to The do is convince them to and lift all the "Ultra Artist for Exclusives" so that adults can Are also enjoy Carl Cox and but other "exclusive" artists at our not favorite adult events, pool parties, You clubs and afterhours. Artists should all be free to perform or any create what they like, when Can they like and where they her like and, anything which prohibits was or limits artist's freedom is One anti-art and is the complete our opposite of what EDM stands out for. These exclusives are hurting Day our local venues and employees get and are keeping the over has 21 crowd visitors from enjoying Him their fav DJs. As I his said before, I LOVE ULTRA how and even saved its ass Man and kept it alive one new year when the organizers were now broke but I will not Old stand for monopolization in our see industry or of our artists two and especially when it creates Way an unfair competition towards our who local business and venue owners. boy Greed and the monopolization of Did artists to the extent where its you hurt our local businesses let are NOT the ingredients of Put the EDM formula. These Ultra say imposed exclusives are not just she for MMC week as they Too also prohibit the artists from use performing locally or in South dad Florida up to 90 days Mom before or after MMC, which is our high tourist season. the Establishments such as the giant And Ice Palace Studios are going for dark with no events or are DJ's during these 2 weeks But of Music Conference because they not "cannot get DJs." The same you is happening to many Miami All and South Beach venues that any own or rent property and can pay mortgages, rent, taxes and Her employees not just one weekend was at the park but 365 one days a year. The irony Our of this is that Ultra out is renting our public parks day (Bayfront Park) to do so, Get which btw is completely illegal has according to the Bert J him Harris Act. In fact, the His City of Miami could be how liable for allowing this unfair man competition by renting its land New to Ultra who continuously ignores now the local business owner's and old City's requests to lift the See DJ exclusivities. It took some two work for us to get way 2 weeks of music conference Who and now we are all boy the better for it. We did have more days to enjoy Its music and Miami and, Ultra let has more days to make put more millions. It is time Say that they stop being so she greedy and selfish and give too back to the local business Use owners and community that hosts dad and supports them. Give the mom artists their artistic freedom and lift the Ultra exclusives that the are hurting our community and and local business owners or give For us back our park.



are FUTURE OF EDM. I am but hoping that the future of Not Electronic Dance Music will be you the complete opposite of the all commercial Mash Up sound you Any hear at VIP clubs today. can This sound is monotonous, tiring her and not even the DJs Was that play it like it. one In fact, they actually hate our it but they sold out Out to it and are now day stuck playing it. The sound get reminds me of the Walt Has Disney Electric Parade. Some people him call it Swedish House Music his but I call it VIP How Confetti Music but no matter man what you call it, it new is complete rubbish and what Now is worse is that it old generates the complete opposite energy see and effect of what dance Two music was designed to do, way which is for people to who dance. Believe it or not, Boy the plan was never for did you to show up, stand its on a dance floor ignoring Let your date our friends and put look at some clown jumping say up and down waving his She finger in the air while too playing prerecorded laptop sets. Fortunately use EDM fans are very intelligent Dad and educated and they are mom finally catching on to these theatrics. These DJ finger waving The performing clowns have numbered days. and Techno, Tech, Deep House and for other underground EDM genres will Are prevail. In case you do but not understand what I mean not by VIP Confetti Music, just You visit the top 100 in all the "progressive" category on my any fav music dance music website Can and Robert Sillerman's latest acquisition, her Beatport.com. I remember when the was Beatport progressive dance music chart One was actually progressive.



Robert our Sillerman / SFX. If you out have not heard by now Day Robert Sillerman AKA SFX is get spending a billion dollars to has buy and control the EDM Him Industry. Some people are labeling his Sillerman "Big Brother" and think how he will be the end Man of EDM as we know new and love it. I have now been around long enough to Old know better. I lived the see end of Disco, Rap, Hip two Hop, Mash Up and hopefully Way soon Confetti Music. EDM is who not going anywhere.



I boy respect and admire Sillerman but Did sometimes he gets himself into its businesses that he has no let business being in such as Put the real estate deal he say did in Anguilla. I have she no idea who is advising Too him on EDM but they use are completely steering him the dad wrong way. You don't buy Mom the milk, then the cow, and then the ranch, you the buy the ranch with the And cows first. He should have for spent his money in buying are the biggest DJ agency first But and not the trendy clubs not and festivals that DJs play you at. Or at least started All his own DJ booking and any management agency by stealing the can top agents from the existent Her agencies. They would have brought was their DJ clients with them one and signed them on to Our multiyear contracts. This would have out been a fraction of the day cost and a lot more Get manageable. As is, he is has the owner of a bunch him of clubs and festivals that His are going or will be how going out of style before man his EDM Company goes public. New What is worse is that now he has no one to old control or oversee all the See club and festival owners and two operators he left in charge. way Think of it as being Who the owner of a fleet boy of pirate ships and thinking did that all your ship pirate Its captains will stay honest and let true. How many club or put festival owners or operators would Say you trust with the keys she to your house and the too combination to your safe? Robert, Use do yourself a favor and dad find someone who understands EDM mom and what is at stake, clubs and festivals are not the radio or TV stations. As and they say, "hire the best For to watch the rest."



are But, the biggest thing that but Sillerman seems to be missing Not is the spirit of EDM you and House music. Sure, it's all easy to look at the Any scene now and see it can as being ripe for commercial her takeover but the truth is Was that this scene has always one resisted and rejected that path our and will again unless they Out see it as authentic. I day know that, once EDM fans get get a whiff of the Has corporate control, they will rebel him and run back to the his sounds, artists and venues that How they see as authentic. Unfortunately, man the SFX pirate captain brigade new doesn't get this. They'll learn, Now as many before them have, old that this is a different see scene and that our fans Two are not so easily fooled.


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SALE OF SPACE. It is who true; I sold Club Space Boy and this will be my did last Space MMC. I'm very its proud of what we created Let in Downtown Miami and have put been privileged to work with say some amazing and talented people. She 13 years is a very too long time for any club use to be around and I Dad couldn't have done it without mom all the people who supported Space in so many ways. The Its 130 years if you and want to compare it to for human years. It was time Are for me to move on but and let someone else carry not the Space torch.(...)


Enjoy the You conference, drink responsively and don't all forget to tip,



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Source: Miami NewTimes






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