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• Share this article on Facebook • Share this article on Twitter • Share this article on Flipboard • Share this article on Pinit • + additional share options added • Share this article on Reddit • Share this article on Linkedin • Share this article on Whatsapp • Share this article on Email • Print this article • Share this article on Comment • Share this article on Tumblr See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The timing wasn’t accidental. This was the dawn of the EDM era, with big room sounds lighting up mainstages at emerging festivals and mega-clubs around the U.S., pulling in a new generation of dance music fans like moths to a pyro flame. Stranger Than to Host Dance Event Series at Los Angeles' Petersen Auto Museum 03/30/2023 Hawtin, sensing which way the wind was blowing, organized CNTRL to show nascent dance music fans electronic sounds beyond EDM, with Hawtin serving as a key figure of techno and minimal techno since the Canadian producer first got into the sound in the late ’80s. (His hometown in Windsor, Ontario was, after all, just a short drive from Detroit, the birthplace of techno.) Over the last decade, Hawtin’s vision of getting the masses into techno worked — in fact, maybe too well. Over the last half decade the sound has “It feels like what’s happened is, the sound of techno was actually influenced by that EDM boom,” Hawtin says over Zoom. “What’s happening in the scene is really a mixture of techno from the ’90s and EDM se...

Hot Dance/Electronic Songs The week’s most popular songs, ranked by audio and video streaming activity on leading digital music services, radio airplay audience impressions based on monitored airplay and sales data, all compiled by Luminate. Audience totals are derived, in part, using certain Nielsen Audio listener estimates. • Share this article on Facebook • Share this article on Twitter • Share this article on Flipboard • Share this article on Pinit • + additional share options added • Share this article on Tumblr • Share this article on Reddit • Share this article on Linkedin • Share this article on Whatsapp • Share this article on Email • Print this article • Share this article on Comment