also there is way more pressure to produce new tracks quickly, I must get about 10 emails every week from juno and I’ve only got uplifting/progressive trance on there, then yet more soundcloud incomings and some of these are from the big trance labels as well as the new artists.

There’s definitely a much smaller commercial EDM scene in Britain, as nearly the whole East Coast is devoid of events compared to when I first moved here and that was only 2006…. and Holland’s scene is being (slightly) downsized, this is something you only unearth if you read the Dutch media news sites though.. of course EDM won’t disappear any more than music would as a whole but out of the current “household names” I think they are the last and after them people following them will be doing it as a hobby (though maybe covering expenses) and having another normal day job.

I’ve seen comments on the Grauniad music blog and other places by former producers from the 90s and they are all working as IT techies and other similar jobs now..