Dub unchained music. It re-defined what a unit of music was, both in origin and in length. Before dub, we considered a recorded song to be the endpoint of a piece of music, and now, it was the start of composition. Before dub, we considered the end of a song to be the end of a song, and not merely a transition for the DJ. Before dub, we were stuck making music with the same old building blocks. Dub enabled us to look at everything as a building block.

Wanna learn more? Blogger Matt M. can walk you through this Wednesday's history lesson.

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Written by guest blogger Andriana from Gluttony is the New Black.

Nightclubs are popular all around the globe; however, it is very rare for a weekly nightclub event to be known around the world. The Gallery was started at Turnmills--a London nightclub--in April 1995, and it has become one of the most well-known weekly music events in the world. Turnmills closed its doors in 2008, which led to The Gallery undergoing a successful transition to Ministry of Sound--one of the most popular nightclubs in the world.

April 2013 marked The Gallery's 18th year of existence. 

Dub is the "creative" of the music world. It's an object, a process, and a genre. From the internet I have learned you can take a dub, dub that to another dub, and then mix the doubled dub to make some dub. Are you following? Let's break it down.

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Written by guest blogger Andriana from Gluttony is the New Black.

Yes, the progression of EDM as a musical genre is extremely closely tied to the evolution of the electronic musical instrument. Granted, but I think we need to draw some lines.

I start my quest of learning about the history of EDM where the repository of modern data, Wikipeida, tells me to: Donna Summer. The page makes a decently big deal of the track “I Feel Love.” Upon some further study, evidently a lot of people have made a big deal of the track, including, famously, Brain Eno’s decree to David Bowie that “I Feel Love” would change the face of club music for the next fifteen years.

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Written by guest blogger Andriana from Gluttony is the New Black.

And so here I am fellow EDM neophytes. Openly admitting I know nothing, looking to learn, humbly throwing myself at the feet of the EDM gods. Come take a sonic journey through time with me as I try and educate myself about where musical fuel of our generation comes from. It’ll be like Reading Rainbow with more beats.