{"id":120170,"date":"2024-12-13T18:05:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T23:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/13\/the-15-biggest-dance-music-stories-of-2024\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T23:05:51","slug":"the-15-biggest-dance-music-stories-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/12\/13\/the-15-biggest-dance-music-stories-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15 Biggest Dance Music Stories of\u00a02024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t2024 breakout producer salute perhaps said it best <\/a>in July, when they observed that \u201cThere\u2019s so much happening in all corners of dance music, and I think we\u2019re back in low-level golden era without realizing it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tCertainly many people in the dance would would agree \u2014 but maybe not everyone. Some might say it\u2019s become stale, with remixes and mashups of classic tracks that don\u2019t necessarily always need to be remixed or mashed, and unsustainable as any artists struggle to make a living while others pull massive paychecks. Techno hero Richie Hawtin remarked on<\/a> \u201cperhaps the biggest disappointment that I felt in our community, our scene since I\u2019ve been part of it\u201d after the September closure of Aslice, which had been designed to let DJs to voluntarily share their set playlists and contribute part of their performance fee to the artists whose music they played.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile Deadmau5 threatened<\/a> to take his music off Spotify (although didn\u2019t) after the company\u2019s CEO Daniel Ek remarked that the cost of creating content is \u201cclose to zero.\u201d \u201cThe cost of creating content was 25+ years of my life and much of those proceeds going to your company you complete f\u2013king idiot,\u201d the producer responded. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut fret not, dear dancer. There has been more to celebrate than sour over this year. Thanks to a deliciously strange Netflix film, we\u2019ve danced to some classic bangers all over again. We\u2019ve swooned at legends returning with sensational albums and live sets to match, and we\u2019ve watched in awe as Charli XCX took club culture to the world \u2014 even bumpin\u2019 that on Saturday Night Live<\/em> \u2014 with Brat<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tOf course, it wasn\u2019t all confetti bursts. We\u2019ve mourned and celebrated the life of some of our most beloved artists, too. SOPHIE\u2019s posthumous album was as beautiful as we\u2019d hoped, and tributes for the late Jackmaster brought the dance world together in a moment of communal mourning. <\/p>\n

\n\tBefore we welcome in 2025, these were the dance music stories that defined 2024, in chronological order. <\/p>\n