Spotify带来了一个小故事，关于EDM的精神和起源

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Spotify是全球最大的正版流媒体音乐服务平台，虽然没有在中国登陆，不过其海外的影响力是毋庸置疑的。近期Spotify发表了一个关于EDM的小视频，这个小视频所说的故事能够让我们了解到EDM的精神和起源，也让我们了解到我们对EDM有着许多的误解。

Spotify is the world's largest music streaming platform, and although there it is blocked in China, its influence overseas is beyond doubt. Recently, the company made a video about EDM, a story to let us know about the spirit and the origin of EDM, and also to let us know what we have many misunderstandings about EDM.

Deconstructing How EDM Changed the World

故事内容大概如下

The story is...

在1977的芝加哥，遭受社会歧视的黑人、同性恋者等发现了一个安全的地方新Club—Warehouse，在Warehouse中DJ Frankie Knuckles将Disco、Soul、Eurosynth等进行mix，结果诞生出一种新的曲风，这就是我们之后称之为的house。

Chicago, 1977. Marginalized black, gay communities find a safe place to gather in a new club called the Warehouse. Inside, DJ Frankie Knuckles is mixing disco, soul, and Eurosynth records into an entirely new sound. It would later become known as “house”.

另外一方面，在底特律的年轻气盛的三位少年Juan Atkins、Derrick May、Kevin Saunderson，他们想要发掘一些新的东西，制作一些关于未来的声音。底特律Techno是带有希望的音乐，能够从黑暗的现实中摆脱。

Meanwhile, the city of Detroit and its economy were basically Imploding. Three teenagers channeled the frustration and decay they saw into something exciting and new. And what they created…sounded like the future. Detroit techno was a sound rooted in hope. It offered an escape from a present that seemed bleak.

但是时间到了90年带中期，出现了将这一切都破坏的敌人。邪恶的Club老板们为了从锐舞文化中榨取利润，在美国毒品问题肆起，当时禁止了许多的音乐形式。为了与之抗衡，布鲁克林的Frankie Bones和Adam X 提出了“PLUR”的概念。Peace 和平、Love 爱、Unity 团结、Respect 尊重。

But by the mid-90s, what had been a safe place for misfits and outcasts was facing three major enemies that threatened to destroy it. Corrupt club owners exploited dance culture as a business venture by hosting overcrowded, dangerous, illegal parties. Hard drugs swept the rave scene, overtaking the popularity of softer drugs like ecstasy. Conservative policies tried to ban raves and even music with repetitive beats. So, in resistance, Brooklyn’s own Frankie Bones and Adam X introduced the enduring concept of ‘PLUR’, Peace, Love, Unity, Respect.

时至今日EDM的迅速成长，似乎与当年的抵抗政策的概念相差甚远，但是EDM所代表的精神应该是所有EDM音乐人所需要传承的。

Today, the radical growth of EDM may have taken the movement beyond its origins of racial and political struggle. But by keeping its message of positivity and community at its core, the next generation of EDM artists are keeping the PLUR ethos alive. 

也就是说EDM的起源混合着芝加哥的house、底特律的Techno和PLUR的精神。而在国内多数人只将EDM看成吵闹的Club音乐、动次哒次的音乐。所以希望大家能够对于EDM有个正确的理解，并且记住PLUR的精神，PYRO音乐也会以此精神为中心，努力传播EDM和RAVE文化。

This is the origin of EDM, mixed with house in Chicago, Detroit‘s techno and the idea of PLUR. While in China most people only know EDM as noisy club music, I hope you can to have a better understanding of EDM, and remember the spirit of PLUR. PYRO music will also be in spirit as the center, to spread the EDM and RAVE culture.