![]() ![]() You got such incredible access for this book. Here, Mosesson discusses the process of writing the book, and why, he says, “As crazy as this might sound, I think in a lot of ways, this is actually a positive story about a young guy who starts to listen to himself.” ![]() Both honest and compassionate, the book includes never-before-known details about Bergling’s struggles with opioids and the final days before he took his life on Apin Muscat, Oman. In the process, Mosesson got to know the real person - a sensitive, sometimes difficult individual - at the center of a musical revolution. For his research, he conducted hundreds of interviews and sifted through Bergling’s personal texts and emails going back a decade. Mosesson spent nearly three years writing Tim: The Official Biography Of Avicii, released on January 18 via Sphere Books. Josh Groban Explains Reason for Leaving 'Sweeney Todd' & Reflects on 20 Years of 'Closer' Want to learn more about the business of music? Check out my book Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office and follow me on Twitter and Facebook. “As long as there’s this kind of constant flow of music, I think going to be popular for a long time.” “There’s not really any limits whatsoever to what you can do,” he says. “That’s kind of what I’m doing … there’s going to be a lot more organic elements in electronic music in the next years, same thing goes for pop music.”Īs for Avicii, he sees the development as a healthy creative shift for EDM-one that will, he hopes, preserve the genre’s considerable momentum. “More and more electronic artists will go that way and include more real instruments,” says Zedd. Up-and-comer Zedd, who’s worked with pop stars including Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga, believes EDM is heading toward a more instrumental sound, as paradoxical as that may seem. Then he’d take it home and start tinkering, adding the electronic elements as they came to him.Īvicii isn’t the only electronic musician who’s seeing the genre move-and is helping to move it-in this sort of direction. ![]() To craft tracks for the new album, he’d sit down with Einziger and come up with chord progressions, leaving the studio with only an acoustic version of each track. I really wanted to play around with the elements of country that are really amazing … It’s a way to advance the genre so it doesn’t get stuck. “I didn’t want to come in and make a new, like, redneck song,” he says. With his star on the rise, he was able to get musicians like Einziger and Blacc to work with him. ![]() He felt that EDM had become too focused on “dirty drops” and wanted to fuse the genre with soul, funk, blues, folk and country. When Avicii found himself with a couple months off over the past year-“for the first time in forever,” he says-he decided to sit down and make a different sort of electronic album. Born Tim Bergling, Avicii’s career began when he started making beats in his bedroom as a teenager he became a producer and composer long before he began spinning at clubs around the world. Pushing the boundaries is one of the 23-year-old Swede’s goals as he prepares to release his debut album next month. And there’s a lot of people who like to listen to everything and not just one style.”Īdds Avicii: “I don’t see EDM anywhere else than in America. “Everyone was in their own little scene: The house heads, the trance heads, the club heads … in America when you play, you can play all that stuff together. “In Europe, we never had the expression ‘EDM,’” says Dutch-born DJ Tiësto. It only stands to reason that “electronic dance music”-a term that didn’t really exist until a few years ago and is used to describe a genre that’s been popular around the world for decades-would have a tough time staying within a narrow set of parameters. Even the tracks that aren’t explicitly EDM clearly reflect its influence-take the thumpy “Radioactive” by alt-rockers Imagine Dragons or the synth-drenched “Safe and Sound” by indie-pop duo Capital Cities. This week’s top 20 singles include offerings from Daft Punk, Calvin Harris, Zedd and Avicii himself. ![]()
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