Electronic dance music world is Shaking. A real scandal is going through our beloved genre of music.
Well, how to start..
EDMsnob, a website that seems the "Wikileaks of the Electronic Dance Music" got some reserved documents that certify that some djs and their managers pay large fees to DJ Magazine (known as DJ Mag) in exchange for publishing positive stories about them.
Dj mag is mainly famous for DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll.
The blog EDMsnob tells also:
"As a result of that investigation, an insider approached us with financial data revealing many cases in which the UK-based publication accepted large payments in exchange for feature articles about an artist, presenting these articles as news. We were able to match these payments with the resulting articles."
The targets are djs such as Aly e Fila, Dj Vierro, Ferry Costern and the twice dj mag top 100 djs pool Paul Van Dyk.
Usually the news company clearly divede paid advertisements from actual news to make the reader able to understand what is a fact described by writer of the magazine and what is just paid section.
This way of working is sad and non-moral. That djs paid between 10 and 15 thousands of dollars for each article.
I am sure a lot of fans will change their own opinion about this influential magazine but, surely more, they will change their own opinion about these djs!
What do you think about it?