Over the past two or three years, we’ve witnessed a large emergence of electronic dance music, or EDM. It’s hard to pin down exactly when things started blowing up for this scene, especially since massive concerts like Electric Daisy Carnival have been around since the 1990s and consistently prove to be some of the biggest events in North America, drawing crowds over 100,000 regularly.
One of the breakout stars of this past year’s EDC in Las Vegas was the burgeoning phenom of the electronic scene, Skrillex. Skrillex’s rise has included a breakout into the mainstream, something few modern DJs have managed to accomplish. He took the underutilized subgenre of dubstep, then mixed it with new experimental sounds and brought it to every college party across America. He even brought it to television with a trailer for “Red Tails.”
Now, he has five Grammy nominations – including Best New Artist – and three Grammy awards under his belt, with victories for Best Dance/Electronica Album (Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites), Best Dance Recording (“Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites”) and Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical (“Cinema”).
But before all this, Sonny Moore was a 17 year old who got his start as the guitarist then lead vocalist for Georgia-based rock band “From First to Last.” Being a talented and trained musician before his transition to DJ Skrillex in 2008 has certainly informed his current music.
Wed 8th Feb, 2012 in 
