Kaskade Compares Electric Daisy Carnival to Woodstock
. "Recently a reporter asked me how it felt to be returning to the original ground of Woodstock for Mysteryland festival. It caught me off guard a bit and I had to take a moment to think about it," Kaskade wrote on his Tumblr account, referencing the two-day dance event happening over this Memorial Day weekend. "Electronic Music is having a moment. And we are living in it�During the original Woodstock, rock was still cutting its teeth on pop culture. Like electronic music now, it was mired in tales of rampant drug use and accused of having little musical merit. It terrified the moral authority, with its sexuality and racial mixing. And music critics went crazy describing the act of plugging in an electric guitar as simple and crude, a violation of the heritage of the past�The parallels between where we are now and what was happening back in the late '60s can't be ignored. "Now electronic music is poised to be able to mirror what our predecessors did," he continued. "This summer more than 500,000 people will attend (Electric Daisy Carnival) over 3 days in Las Vegas. Our goal isn't to violate taboos, for the sake of shock value, but to push things forward." Kaskade goes on to join Deadmau5 in firing back at Arcade Fire for singer Win Butler's recent Coachella comments that have been construed as anti-EDM, as well as mentioning a cheeky video produced by Rolling Stone's Italy division that takes a decidedly harsh view of modern dance music. Read what Kaskade has to say here. Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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