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reports of alleged drug related deaths

EDM music is typically played at festivals and raves. A number of deaths related to alleged drug use have occurred at major festivals in recent years, involving such drugs as MDMA and meth. Electric Daisy Carnival was forced to move to Las Vegas in 2011, when the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum refused to host any it or any other Insomniac-organized electronic music events after an under aged attendee died from an MDMA overdose at the 2010 edition.^{[99][119][120][121]} Drug-related deaths during Electric Zoo2013 in New York City, United States, and Future Music Festival Asia 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, prompted the final day of both events to be outright cancelled,^[120][122] while Life in Color cancelled a planned event in Malaysia out of concern for the incident at Future Music Festival Asia and other drug-related deaths that occurred at A State of Trance 650 concerts in Jakarta, Indonesia.^{[123][124][125]} An underage boy in London died from an ecstasy overdose at a rave. He was still in high school when he tragically died at a rave. He had his whole life ahead of him but it's all ruined because of something that occurred at a rave. This is not an uncommon thing to see at raves and festivals where EDM is played. People are typically under the influence of some type of substance. The music is not directly correlated with the deaths but it is associated with it because it is the music that is played at the raves and festivals where the violence and deaths are seen. Because of these deaths EDM is sometimes frowned upon, due to the stigma surrounding it.

Genre Section

EDM slowly transitioned from 90's disco music to mainstream music that is now used at festivals and raves. The first electronic dance music genre was called "electro", short for "electro-funk", which gained wide appeal in the 1980's. Like other music genres, EDM has various subgenres that evolved over the past 30 years that are often defined by their varying tempo (BPM), rhythm, instrumentation, and time period. For example; hardstyle, dubstep, trance, electro, hardcore, trap, chillstep, chillout, drum and bass, house, and some other genres which came from combinations from the genre above. Within the electronic dance music genre there are many subgenres, which are: Garage, Techno, House, Trance, Trip-Hop, Ambient, and Drum ‘n’ Bass. EDM's configuration is made up of "tracks." These tracks are never the same length, they vary can be as short or as little as the DJ pleases. EDM typically does not have lyrics but rather has repeated patterns throughout the tracks. Every EDM track is different and unique to itself. This is what separates EDM and other genres every track is different no tracks will be exactly the same.

Addition to the US Corporate interest:

It was projected that EDM would fade out and would be as popular as it was years ago. This shows us that EDM is a genre that is constantly increasing its revenue, and won't die out anytime. Currently EDM in the United States has gone up by 60% since 2012. This just comes to show how much it has impacted the economy greatly throughout the years. In 2015 it was estimated that EDM was worth around 5.5 billion dollars and it is still rising. EDM is a genre that keeps increasing in popularity and capital, that it is not going to have a major decline in either category in the near future.

Introduction

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music,^[1] club music, or simply dance music) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres produced primarily for nightclubs, raves, and or festivals. Produced for playback by disc jockeys (DJs), EDM is generally used in the context of a live music mix, where a DJ creates a seamless selection of tracks by segueing from one recording to the next.^[2] By the early 2010s the term "electronic dance music" and the initialism "EDM" was being pushed by the U.S. music industry and music press in what was largely an effort to re-brand U.S. rave culture.^[3] In the UK, "dance music" or "dance" are more common terms for the genre.^[4] In this context, EDM does not refer to a specific genre, but serves as an umbrella term for several commercially popular genres, including techno, house, trance, drum and bass, dubstep, Jersey club, and their respective subgenres.^[5][6][7][8] EDM is a genre that is constantly growing in many ways. It is incorporated in many festivals and concerts that were either just specific to hip hop or rock. EDM is now represented in mainstream music and is no longer an underground genre like it was years ago.

post-disco

During the post-disco era that followed the backlash against "disco" which began in the mid to late 1979, which in the United States lead to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night,^[13] an underground movement of "stripped-down" disco inspired music featuring "radically different sounds"^[14] started to emerge on the East Coast^{[15][Note 1]} This new scene was seen primarily in the New York metropolitan area and was initially led by the urban contemporary artists that were responding to the over-commercialization and subsequent demise of disco culture. The sound that emerged originated from P-Funk^[18] the electronic side of disco, dub music, and other genres. Much of the music produced during this time was, like disco, catering to a singles-driven market.^[14] At this time creative control started shifting to independent record companies, less established producers, and club DJs.^[14] Other dance styles that began to become popular during the post-disco era include dance-pop,^[19][20] boogie,^[14] electro, Italo disco, house,^{[19][21][22][23]} and techno.^{[22][24][25][26][27]}

Terminology

The term "electronic dance music" (EDM) was used in the United States as early as 1985, although the term "dance music" did not catch on as a blanket term until the late 1990s, when the larger U.S. music industry created music charts for "dance" (Billboard magazine has maintained a "dance" chart since 1974 and it continues to this day.).^[93] In July 1995, Nervous Records and Project X Magazine hosted the first awards ceremony, calling it the "Electronic Dance Music Awards".^{[Note 4][95]} Writing in The Guardian, journalist Simon Reynolds noted that the American music industry's adoption of the term EDM in the late 2000s was an attempt re-brand U.S. "rave culture" and differentiate it from the 1990s rave scene. In the UK, "dance music" or "dance" are more common terms for EDM.^[4]What is widely perceived to be "club music" has changed over time; it now includes different genres and may not always encompass EDM. Similarly, "electronic dance music" can mean different things to different people. Both "club music" and "EDM" seem vague, but the terms are sometimes used to refer to distinct and unrelated genres (club music is defined by what is popular, whereas EDM is distinguished by musical attributes).^[96]

I have a few suggestions, firstly I would not but drug related deaths as the first part of the article as I don't think it's the most important part of it. The "Addition to US corporate interest" part is very unclear and I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to say. The line " EDM track is different and unique to itself. This is what separates EDM and other genres every track is different no tracks will be exactly the same." seems a bit too much like an opinion as opposed to a fact, as I think most artists believe that their work is completely different and unique. The sentence "During the post-disco era that followed the backlash against "disco" which began in the mid to late 1979, which in the United States lead to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known..." should be edited to something more like this "During the post-disco era that followed the backlash against "disco," which began in the mid to late 1979, led to a civil unrest in the United States and a riot in Chicago known" Mostly though it's very good.