“EDM” has practically become a dirty word among dance music’s elder statesmen, and the recent vitriol of Perry Farrell serves as proof. The Lollapalooza founder and former Jane’s Addiction frontman made a sharp distinction between the youth culture movement and the genre from which it originated in an interview.
Speaking to the Chicago Tribune, Farrell hinted at a new venture centered around house music. “The only way to change things is by changing things myself,” he said. “At my new project, there will be great house music. I hope I will keep EDM at the door. They will be turned away.”
Farrell minced no words in expressing his disdain for EDM. He went on to say:
When they said they wanted to name a stage after me [when the festival relaunched in 2005], I was honored. I like the adulation. But now you say, ‘Perry, what’s going on with your area here?’ Believe me, I’ve got questions myself. I hate EDM. I want to vomit it out of my nostrils. I can’t stand what it did to what I love, which is house music, which was meditative, psychedelic — it took you on a journey. I sometimes cringe at my own festival.
Perry Farrell has not disclosed any other information regarding his new project at this time.
Source: Your EDM
