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First Floor #30 – The Scene Isn't Worth Saving
a.k.a. The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the rot in the electronic music industry. Let's tear it out.
Shawn Reynaldo
Mar 25, 2020
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Skrillex Is Green Day, and This Is Dance Music's 'American Idiot' Moment
a.k.a. Why I passed on reviewing the new Skrillex album.
Shawn Reynaldo
Feb 21
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The Rising Costs of DJ Life
a.k.a. Inflation blues, post-pandemic problems and an overdue examination of contemporary nightlife models.
Shawn Reynaldo
Jun 14, 2022
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The Crumbling Palaces of Electronic Music Media
a.k.a. The press is in bad shape, so why does the industry routinely pretend otherwise?
Shawn Reynaldo
Jan 31
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The Rise of the Avatar DJ
a.k.a. What music a DJ plays has become far less important than who they are, and more importantly, what they represent.
Shawn Reynaldo
Nov 1, 2022
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Fake It Until... Actually, Just Keep Faking It
a.k.a. The pressure to constantly project success in dance music.
Shawn Reynaldo
May 3, 2022
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Raving as Folk Art
a.k.a. Why post-pandemic dance music feels fundamentally different.
Shawn Reynaldo
Oct 18, 2022
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Is PR Evil? And What Exactly Does It Do? I Asked a Publicist.
a.k.a. An interview with electronic music publicist Chanel Kadir, who lays out not only what her job entails, but the fraught media landscape in which…
Shawn Reynaldo
Feb 28
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The Album You Made Might Have Been a Giant Waste of Time
a.k.a. The trouble with big projects in a time of short attention spans.
Shawn Reynaldo
Nov 8, 2022
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The Cost of Passion
a.k.a. Musicians aren't magicians, and what they do is work.
Shawn Reynaldo
Nov 29, 2022
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Streaming Should Pay More, But How?
a.k.a. Spotify and the rest obviously have other priorities, and it's far from clear that consumers have any appetite for price hikes.
Shawn Reynaldo
Mar 14
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The Latin Music Gold Rush
a.k.a. A closer look at electronic music's current fascination with Latin sounds.
Shawn Reynaldo
Jan 24
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