A year ago I decided to track underrepresented minority (URM) presence in festivals, starting w/ Lost Lands (LL)
Today I will present a breakdown of EVERY LL to date and showcase the improvement (or lack) of diversity and debunk some points I keep seeing
So today I decided I had the ENERGY:
The Lost Lands Lineup has a total of 159 acts with 186 artists within those acts. Out of those 186 people:
18 are Asian
14 are Latino
6 are Black
Out of 186 artists, 10 are women. SPECIFICALLY WHITE WOMEN...There are NO women of color
BREAKING: Ticketmaster is under investigation by the Justice Department for abusing its monopoly power over the live music industry, per The New York Times.
@GoodVibePolitik
"We didnβt steal the land, we simply bought it from absentee landlords"
Where have I heard this from before??? These never end in mass genocide and displacement, right???
I have an insanely unpopular opinion on what the correct take should be of a majority white euro music festival βFor Peaceβ being held directly outside a modern day concentration camp where life expectancy drops 15-20yrs depending on which side of the fence you were born on
Noa was partying in the south of Israel in a peace music festival when Hams terrorists kidnapped her and dragged her from Israel into Gaza.
Noa is held hostage by Hamas.
She could be your daughter, sister, friend.
#BringBackOurFamily
I repeatedly see these threads pop up with on my feed and theyre full of these lame ass mainstream reccs so here's 10 ACTUAL psych thriller movies that make you think and arent fuckin Inception LMFAO
Four Tet is a x2 Grammy nominee whos played Coachella five times between 2005 and 2023, toured sold out venues across the world for three decades and has a discography that outdates EDM
You cant rise to superstardom when youre already thereβ¦
seeing four tet rise to superstardom at 45 is so inspiring. the music industry tends to be obsessed w youth & itβs easy to feel like if ur not at a certain point by a certain age that ur failing or running out of time. The truth is the older u get, the better u become at ur craft
As the Las Vegas Sun first reported, the Sphere saw an operating loss of $98.4 million for the last fiscal quarter ending September 30.
Should the Sphere start booking Electronic music acts to drive more ticket sales rather than have U2 as a residency?
Bad Bunny had a tour that broke the Ticketmaster website multiple times, became one of the highest grossing tours in history + had tickets scalped almost 500% their original price in some cities
Which artist you think has a dedicated wikipedia page addressing their scalpers???
Due to popular demand
EDC LV has 224 acts with 264 artists within these acts. Out of those 264 people:
23 are Asian
23 are Latino
16 are Black
1 is Native American
Out of 264 acts, 20 are female. Of those 20 females, none are black
@MaceAhWindu
Spain is one of the hardest hit EU nations from climate change
The rural areas are extremely dry and in some places turning into desert and this creates conditions for insane non stop wildfires
These firefighters are protesting for better pay + conditions due to overwork
So today I decided I had the ENERGY:
The Lost Lands Lineup has a total of 159 acts with 186 artists within those acts. Out of those 186 people:
18 are Asian
14 are Latino
6 are Black
Out of 186 artists, 10 are women. SPECIFICALLY WHITE WOMEN...There are NO women of color
Also forgive my hazy memory but wasnt Mize the one who had allegations earlier this year on reddit that hella people dismissed?
Or am i thinking of someone else???
@Killboard1
@logoffbrent
This Triple Alliance theory is really old and has been disproven
There was a coordinated effort in the late 1800s to βbreed awayβ/βwhitenβ AfroArgentines and change the definition of black so that by the 1890s black people βdisappearedβ into the convoluted biracial βhierarchyβ
What's an image from a horror movie that has haunted you/stuck with you?
I know for a lot of people it was the girl in the closet reveal from The Ring. Such a great shock.
@Timcast
What does that matter if someone got 1 or 100 its their God given right to do whatever the fuck they want to do with their body
How is this so hard to understand?
@jaiwolfx
Oooh damn you put the work in for this thank you for your service π«‘π«‘π«‘
Not supirsed a single bit what dude looks like and the field hes in not one bit
Bro how many of these posts are there???
Its the same mfs that go to Perrys at Lolla in a TuneSquad jersey and try to make a mosh pit at an Odesza set
Just takin cheap shots on a mid artist when you know your "energy" is tryna twerk in 3/4 time to a dnb set im inconsolable
This a public broadcast and I know imma have to say this multiple times but as the resident nuclear engineer in electronic/EDM Twitter
No, Putin did NOT threaten to use nukes
No, a mushroom cloud does NOT mean a nuke went off
No, a big ass explosion does not mean a nuke went off
Friendly reminder that last year two POC Purdue students committed suicide and Mitch Daniels dedicated his commencement speech on addressing "snowflakes" and "fragility". He made no comments the previous years when nonPOC students took their lives
Do NOT forget
Let me know how Pearl Jam, U2, Bad Bunny and Bruno Mars had nothing happen to them for years but blonde white woman gets a federal investigation
I got time sweaty
I can wait
@nihil_lesbian
@Squishsquashfan
"the man made mistakes but he did a lot of good."
Oh shit, sorry I slipped and wiped out half of kazakhstan and all the buddhist monks in Mongolia
MY BAD HONEST ACCIDENT I SWEAR
Do heads think that if they name drop Levity or Tape B enough times that the hater engagement on this app is gonna propel them into bookings?
Like its been over 24hrs and yall are still at itβ¦
the existence of levity/tape b/pseudo wookchad at the headliner level has done more irreversible damage to the global economy than 911 and the 2008 housing crisis combined
@Veltrida
Louis The Child saying "hate won't bring them back" to the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor gotta be on the WatchMojo Top 10 Greatest Anime Clapbacks of the Century
Tweeting this from a state that has legal weed, legal abortion, top 5 best healthcare access, top 10 highest median income, top 5 in education quality, 3rd busiest airport with direct flights to four continents and consistently votes blue since the 90sβ¦
Is certainly a choice
@lackingsaint
Thor was literally known for eating fuck you amounts of food, sleeping and genociding anything that spoke more than nine syllables at him what like what is that REALLY gonna look like
Swifties explain how their fave (a QWHITE WHOMAN) suddenly gets federal support when just this year multiple artists did not challenge
Difficulty: Legendary
Reminder that the City of Lebanon, Indiana found a registry of 300k midwest based Ku Klux Klan members from the 1920s and 30s and, after a vote, decided to hide those documents until 2020 to minimize "public embarrassment"
The original arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who accused 14-year old Emmett Till, was recently found in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse.
Emmettβs relatives want authorities to finally arrest her.
Idk about yall but im 100% going thru every dubstep artist my mind can come up with and see how many "niggas" and "niggers" they dropped pre2018 let's max score this shit
Modestep beefing with a relatively small producer to stoke their egos is so on brand
Don't tell me yall forgot how they played a show mid way thru the quarantine that sold like shit + hella people got sick and every person that mentioned it to them got blocked LOL
Everyone that went or is going to Purdue, NEEDS to follow this page and read every story
Those that are black purdue students and alumni, give them your stories
@xspotsdamark
@MaceAhWindu
Do we understand chronological orders?
Like how Lumumba was 20yo and a postal clerk during the time period of the movie
Or how a majority of the U used in the Manhattan project was sourced from indigenous lands in the US and Canada
βShe could be your daughter, sister, friendβ
I dont think anyone with five firing neurons would organize and/or go to a music festival in Afghanistan, Myanmar or Niger with the dressings of βFor Peaceβ around it why the hell would you purposely go to a dangerous place for that
I refuse to have someone get on here and tell me EQing a Joeboy type beat is harder than printing chip designs down to 8nm, fusing atoms in an environment more extreme than the Sun to make power or using chemical reactions to send chunks of metal into space
Insane levels of π§’
Its almost always a black and brown person going βwords have meanings, thats not what this is, respect the black originatorsβ and its almost ALWAYS white people going βSTOP TALKING DOWN ON ME LET ME CALL IT WHATEVER I WANNAβ
Iβm going to be so honest
I donβt know how to tell the difference between subgenres and I genuinely do not care to.
It really feels like you guys use your knowledge of the scene to act superior to anyone else. And the elitist mindset surrounding sub genres is so bizarre
@k1llacourt
The reason why he did it makes sense
Its was either voting no and letting hundreds of thousands of people not get paid and their healthcare for visual clout or voting yes
@MMABrainDotCom
@StrikeDebt
Iβm fighting for student debt relief. Just this morning I testified to the Department of Education, have debated on the House floor, and have joined/hosted actions. I didnβt want the payments to unpause but the Republicans held Congress hostage with the threat of our ..
White girl π€ from Denver π€ notes app π€ βIve been working with Elev808 for the past [REDACTED] weeks and they changed my life/didnβt do it/arenβt responsible for it/they deserved it if it did happenβ
Soooo...
As is twitter tradition, I wanna shout out some of my fellow black Purdue engineers that are ALSO musicians, were inspirations for myself as a producer and deserve some more streams
@_jermajo
(Jerm Alexander)
@djata_irl
(Admiral Raddis)
BREAKING: The Biden administration's ban on noncompete clauses has been upheld in court, per MorePerfectUnion.
As of now, virtually all noncompete agreements with bosses will be banned and voided beginning September 4.
Absolutely fascinating seeing a black man in the music industry admitting to have seen his client's racist bullshit before signing him, admitting to having been triggered by said bullshit and simply...
Continuing to pursue that person and sign them
Man what the actual fuck
No one is gonna convince me that a 3rd party isnt viable from this point on
We BADLY need a political party that's made of YOUNG COMPETENT Americans that are dedicated to solving issues that are relevant to THIS CENTURY
These mfs are gonna make me have to post a pie chart breaking the down the demographics of artists with sexual assault cases against them in EDM to proove this point...
You have a degree in accounting from UIUC
Looking at your plan of study there are multiple non-graduate level requirement classes that you took that involved ethics (BUS101), copyright & trademark (BADM320, BADM403, BADM449)
Maybe respond to them when they reach out next time
A lot of dance music feels devoid of purpose outside of gaining streams, acquiring bookings and βpushing sonic boundariesβ
I think its easy to blame it on social media/low shelf life but imo its because alot of dance music has an allergy to concept albums + musical storytelling
taking acid as a midwit is like overclocking a pc to do spreadsheets. your hardware just isnt capable of coming up with earth shattering revelations about philosophy or aesthetics so you end up with stupid shit like βdid that tree just freaking TALK??β
Harassing the white pop/hip hop/rock guy to listen to your bricked up mixdowns when hes already said he doesnt like that kinda stuff
vs
supporting + uplifting the blog ecosystem thats already in place and loves all of the β-stepβs is pretty nonsensical if you ask me
I need someone to convince me how a majority white festival being thrown in a majority non-white nation where there is no local presence on the lineup whatsoever isn't a form of colonization
Hes honestly lucky I didnt bring in the rest of his family fraternity exes and friends
Given dude was calling randoms f*ggot this and n*gger that, he gettin off easy from my pov
Being racist and havin all yo shit out to expose is just poor operational procedure on his part
Secret Dreams has 51 artists and 33 acts
Of these 51 artists, 2 (<4%) are women
Of these 51 artists, 6 (~10%) are POC
The remaining 43 (~85%) artists are white males
~60% are signed to the same booking agency
This is atrocious A&R work literally any addition would improve it
Carmel, IN has had the same Republican mayor for 27 years: James Brainard
Under his reign, the population has quadrupled, he replaced all the stoplights with roundabouts, and built a classical downtown out of stone and brick
Cue the cope from NYcels and SF hostages
Ive seen multiple of these and im disappointed every time like EDM twitter really needs to hire a Black twitter consultant to cover this in a way that maintains the nuances of the Birdman x Neptunes origin
AIGHT IM BORED SO IMMA TRY TO EXPLAIN THE KENDRICK/DRAKE BEEF IN EDM TERMS:
imagine 7L/slander do a collab and in the song they say that the two of them plus illenium are the top DJs in the melodic bass genre. Illenium releases a response saying there's no top 3 it's just him
Look at these replies
This is the shit i had to fight against in 2021 and it hasn't died down not even a little bit...
Fuckheads want to bend over backwards to justify not booking women to festivals its INSANE
Yea this lineup has lots of the perennial favorites but it also has just 1-2 women and I believe just 1 Black person π¬ (and very few other people of color)
The reason theres so many subgenres in βdrum n bassβ is because of the process of gentrification, criminalization and disenfranchisement of the black and brown originators of that sound, segregating them into βintelligentβ DnB and βblackβ Jungle
@indoor_wildling
I feel this way sometimes (even about myself) but theres definitely benefits in knowing certain subgenres and theres a lot of history to be told with them that can easily be forgotten
Nearly two years ago I decided to track underrepresented minority (URM) presence in festivals, starting w/ Lost Lands (LL) and continuing onward to others
Today I will begin to publish my analysis of
@insomniacevents
's
@EDC_LasVegas
, starting w/ the iterations from 2000 to 2010
Around this time tomorrow I will begin posting the first 10 years of data that I have on EDC Las Vegas
I'll use this thread to put down some explainers, definitions and disclaimers, as well as links to previous threads I've done that will probably be useful to have on deck
~70 mi in 20min jfc thats like ATX to San Antonio in ~25-30min or like Indy to Chicago in ~1hr this is God tier Google Maps time trail record breaking⦠mans broke the game plz nerf
Colorado State Patrol has an arrest warrant out for a motorcyclist accused of driving from Garden of the Gods Rd to Denver in 20 minutes. Read more here:
π₯- CSP
I think its truly TRULY embarrassing that I, someone not in the music industry, could rattle off MULTIPLE LGBTQ DJs that wouldve been better fits as headliner for a major Pride event than John Summit
And just as OP said, its no offense to him
But how as a Buyer you do thisβ¦idk
thoughts about the dreamland pride event in new york because people have been asking me in the DMs how i feel about it
(tl:dr i donβt have beef with
@johnsummit
, but i think this booking was more about money than the culture)
Waitwaitwait lemme get this straight
You were in a supposed disrespectful relationship, so instead of breaking up or talkin it out...you cheated on Luca with a publicly known sexual abuser w/ a rep for disrespecting women???
Is this algebra calculating for anyone else???
They took a mass shooter down nonlethally, undressed him and drove him away
They killed an unarmed disabled black man via beating and Ket overdose for looking "sketchy" but they treat this MASS MURDERER like hes a rowdy customer at JCPenney