Which Era of Dance Music Are You? · Result

The EDM Festival Boom, 2010 to 2015

The drop, the wristband, the main stage, and the biggest audience this music ever had.

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You want the payoff now, you want everyone in the room to feel it at the same time, and you have no patience for the idea that being hard to like is a virtue. For about five years dance music became American stadium music, and Ultra Korea launched in Seoul in 2012. That instinct built the largest audiences dance music has ever had, and it is how a lot of people first heard any of this at all.

You tend to plan the big nights well in advance: the wristband, the outfit, the crew and the spot near the front for the headliner. You love a countdown, confetti and a drop that lands for ten thousand people at once. People like you are often the ones who brought their friends into dance music in the first place, and some of those friends went on to find smaller rooms because of you.

Your strength

You can make ten thousand people feel one thing at the same second.

Your blind spot

A peak every ninety seconds leaves no room for the in between, and big nights can blur together.

Key takeaways

  • You want the peak now, and you want everyone to share it.
  • You brought more people to this music than any other era did.
  • Leave some room for the in between. It holds the peaks up.

Rooms to try in Seoul

  • Lion Super Club, Cheongdam: Gangnam's current big room, where confetti, countdowns and festival headliners still fill a Saturday.
  • Ultra Korea, Seoul, annual: The festival that brought the American main stage format to Korea in 2012 and kept the wristband model going.
  • World DJ Festival, Outdoor, Seoul and Gyeonggi: Older than the decade, but it absorbed the main stage format and the fireworks, and its crowd expects both.

Rooms to try around the world

  • Veld, Toronto: Downsview Park every August since 2012 is the decade preserved in a field, with the drop still landing on schedule.
  • XS at Wynn, Las Vegas: The casino residency model in its original room, where a set is a shift and the room is the client.
  • Ultra Music Festival, Miami: The broadcast main stage that defined how the era looked on a phone screen and on television.

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UK Garage and 2 Step, 1996 to 2001Dressed properly, out early, home late, no apologies.The Streaming and Algorithm Era, 2015 to nowEverything at once, in no order, and you find the good part first.

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