Who Killed the Dancefloor? The Private Equity Takeover of Electronic Music

I want to ask a genuine question. At what point did we decide that electronic music no longer needed to challenge anyone?

You just did a summer of festivals. You bought the tickets, you made the trip, you stood in the fields and the arenas and the beach clubs, and somewhere around the third weekend you noticed something. The same DJs. The same sets. The same names on every poster, every lineup announcement, every social media reveal with the same dramatic countdown. You thought it might just be you. It is not just you. It is not a coincidence and it is not a reflection of who the best artists in the world happen to be right now….