Thursday, October 25, 2012

Billboard: EDM Invades Hollywood

Dealing with the expectations, frequent mixed messages and huge budgets of Hollywood studios requires an important choice for EDM artists:

"Be a politician, or you will become a schizophrenic."

That was the advice EDM-centric composer Henry Jackman ("X-Men: First Class") gave attendees at Billboard's Film & TV Music Conference on Wednesday at The W hotel in Hollywood. He was part of the "EDM Invades Hollywood" panel moderated by KCRW's Jason Bentley. Jackman and Bentley were joined by Tom Holkenborg - better known as Junkie XL - and Mike Simpson, one-half of the legendary production team The Dust Brothers (Beck, the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Boutique").

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