Thump: Provoked by the mainstreaming of North American music festivals in the early 2000s—and the big budget EDM boom shortly thereafter—the last decade of live electronic music has been something of an arms race. No longer was it simply enough to just show up and play a few songs, fans demanded lasers, confetti cannons, colossal smoke machines, and cakes to the face.
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While I've never been the biggest fan of electronic music, it has produced some amazing stage setups. Having talent that moves little and essentially uses a table to work on allows for some amazing stage design, since the designer doesn't have to create a normal stage space for the talent and backups to move around and interact on. EDM also allows for some amazing lighting and media design--since it is mostly computer generated, and rarely relies on the talent being in time, it means it can all be timecoded from the dj setup, and therefore all of the lighting and media can sync up perfectly with the beat of the music--so it can all be perfectly aligned. While electronic music isn't universally liked, and while I'm not a huge fan of it, it certainly does provide opportunities for some really unique and interesting stage design that might not be possible anywhere else.
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