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The music industry has had a huge impact from electronic music in recent years and many artists have switched over to the electronic music scene to adapt.

Electronic music is everywhere nowadays.

You can’t tune in to any main stream radio today without listening to a song that has electronic beats and samples.

Clubs everywhere now feature a heavy electronic playlist to keep the party-goers dancing and on their feet,

Popular electronic music producers like Deadmau5, Skrillex and LMFAO are leading the music revolution.

This new trend of music has caused a change among artists in an effort to keep up with the times and have a bigger following.

This has had a negative effect with long time fans of a group or artist that has gone electro in order to please a new fan base.

Artists that have gone the change include the Black Eyed Peas, Chris Brown, Maroon 5 and My Chemical Romance.

One example would be Kanye West’s “Stronger.” The hit single features sample vocals of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” a hit song by electronic music duo Daft Punk. It was well received among fans and it even won a Grammy.

Whether you realize it or not, almost every modern song today carries electronic influences.

Even if an artist has not undergone an electronic make over, their music probably has. Instead of producing completely new electronic music, they allow DJs and producers to remix their singles with electronic beats and synthesizers.

The remixed versions are mostly played in clubs rather than radio and can appeal to a new audience of electronic followers to check out their original music.

What does this mean for Cerritos College and other colleges and universities?

New music classes could focus entirely on electronic music composition.

Currently, Cerritos College only offers two electronic music classes: Electronic Synthesizer 1 and Electronic Synthesizer 2. One of which is needed as a requisite to attend the other.

With a growing electronic music genre, demand for producers in the industry will rise. More electronic music classes will be a no-brainer for colleges.

Classical and instrumental music classes could suffer in enrollment due to an increase in interest for electronic music composition.

Just as new technology develops for other sciences, new techniques will develop for music majors looking to produce their own music and drop the bass in their own fame.