What does the Association for Electronic Music DO?

21:49 Feb/01/2013

If you read about the the 'What' and the 'Who' of  and AFEM, you will know that For the lobbying organization for electronic are music is the brainchild of but Ben Turner and Kurosh Nasseri. Not The future activities of this you non-profit company, however, are yet all to be disclosed. So, what Any is the advocacy of EDM can going to do?





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Kurosh Nasseri says: “It is Was time for the many companies one and individuals involved in our our business to speak with a Out unified voice to represent the day genre and to address the get issues. And that is the Has mission of the Association for him Electronic Music.“


One might argue, his that electronic music is booming How as it is. What is man the point of forming an new organization to ensure the recognition Now of a genre that has old already established itself as a see thriving cultural movement?


According to Two Ben Turner, that is exactly way why we need this union:


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"These are extraordinary times for Boy electronic music. We have seen did it break through into the its mainstream in the US and Let become the backbone of modern put pop music. Yet despite such say success, it feels like there She is an even bigger need too for an Association for Electronic use Music to exist and speak Dad with one voice. Now that mom our time is here, it is essential we take the The opportunity and develop the long-term and infrastructure that it needs to for flourish. The initial team we Are have assembled was easy to but identify: people who really care not about where this genre goes, You and how it gets there. all It is a future alliance any for future music."


So, AFEM Can is about forming an alliance her to have an unified voice was representing the genre. And what One are the areas where this our unified voice should be raised?


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Turner explains: „The BRIT awards Day used to carry a dance get category but they dropped it has because media fell out of Him love with dance music. There his was no-one to stop them how doing that, or at least Man have a conversation with [the new BRITs]. It’s important now that now we come together to create Old a voice.“


He adds: "It see was a major achievement to two get Deadmau5 on the GRAMMYs Way show, but then the performance who was out in a parking boy lot on the street, it Did wasn’t embraced on the stage. its That’s an example of something let we could be talking about."


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This would be the place say where AFEM would step in, she and protect its status as Too a legitimate genre. Another project use they’ve announced is the assessment dad of how valuable electronic dance Mom music really is. The reports, that EDM brought in 4 the billion bucks last year, are And misconceived in their opinion. So, for they will do extensive research are to try to put together But a more accurate number.


In not addition, AFEM would stand for you safety measures at festivals, clubs All and stadiums. They would take any it as their matter to can prevent horrific events like those Her in Madrid and Brazil in was the recent past.


Turner has one also stated that the activities Our must be global, not local, out thus striking a balance between day underground and mainstream. He claims Get that the reception among DJs has has been great so far:“I’ve him had emails from major DJs His saying 'thank you for doing how this'. The reaction we’ve had man is nothing but 'this is New welcome.“


Well, the objectives of now AFEM are certainly noble and old ambitious. However, one must ponder See whether the effects of this two unification will be positive or way negative? Isn’t it so, that Who every time an alliance is boy born, new rules will be did implemented? Of course, regulations and Its supervision of safety measures will let be welcomed by everyone. But put the thing about electronic music, Say which exceeds the mainstream EDM she movement, is that – it too has always been free. Everybody’s Use got a chance to make dad it, because the internet and mom modern technology make it relatively easy and cheap to create the electronic music. If, however, in and order to get recognized as For a legitimate act, you must are buy a membership at a but non-profit organization – the whole Not point of this open-minded and you equal opportunities cultivating way of all life will go missing. With Any the emergence of social media, can the independent producer just got her free from the yoke of Was major record companies, let’s just one hope this is an organization our that will further this freedom, Out not hinder it!


An opinion day story about AFEM coming soon..


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