The Current State of EDM

Zedd: "I can see two things happening at the moment in the U.S. One thing is that Electronic Dance Music really gets big, and still bigger. Just this morning, I saw that DJ Pauly D released a single and its already beating Calvin Harris on the charts which is kind of weird. I don't really know what to think because the track is not even that bad. Its a fairly generic sounding electronic dance music song, there's nothing wrong with it I guess. It doesn't really bother me, but it's kind of weird, to see someone that I don't know if he ever released music before, but seems to be big in the Top 100.

"I don't know how successful it would have been if it was a rock song. These kind of things can pop in my eyes, and at the same time I can see a lot of songs that are very vintage and old school. The Bruno Mars thing at the moment, or even the new Justin TImberlake single has a touch of it.

"I can see 2013 being the biggest year for Electronic Dance Music, I can imagine after that the next wave being more, I don't want to say hippy, but something more towards Mumford & Sons even Adele and that kind of music, almost the opposite. I think it all all comes in circles, and I predict 2013 to be the biggest year for Electronic Dance Music in a long time."