SPIN Declares Zedd As The Best Way To Cure An EDM Hater

Zedd played to a massive crowd at Lolla, which he later declared to be mindblowing. Follow that up with a plane flying a Zedd banner in the middle of his Hardfest set and the tiny German is having quite a week. The excerpt below is from Spin Magazine’s Best and Worst at Lollapalooza Day One.

Best Way to Cure An EDM Hater: Zedd

Listen dum dums, there’s a reason people love this EDM stuff. Scoff at it, make “bro” jokes if you must, smugly contrast it with whatever hedonistic music got your blood going years ago, but EDM in IRL is addictive. Nothing else at the festival can even compete with this stuff. You hear it, it knocks you over, and later, when you wander over to another set and see some goons with guitars and you’re like, “Man, what a snooze.” Just arty enough rage-out DJ/producer Zedd threw Afrojack drums and all of the loping buzz of of Justice’s “Waters of Nazareth” on top of his dubstep or “complextro” or whatever you’d like to call it, and then deftly movied from maximalist melanges of everything and anything “dance,” to bursts of silence that lasted but a few seconds, but built enough the tension that it felt like hours. And then, a few minutes later, the crowd is sharing a lighters-up moment, singing along to the German producer’s hit “Every Time the Stars Come Out,” like it’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” which hey, it actually kind of is if you think about it. B.S.

The author had less than impressive things to say about fellow OWSLA member Porter Robinson. Read the full article and additional Lollapalooza coverage at Spin Magazine.

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