As Los Angeles was in thrall to punk and the coming of glam metal at the onset of the 80’s, singer Terri Nunn met electronics wizard John Crawford and decided to gamble on the Euro obsession with the shiny new synthesizer mania. They formed the fittingly named Berlin, and cult hits "The Metro," "Sex (I’m A…)" and "Masquerade" eventually evolved into massive chart success later in the decade.

While electronic dance music has exploded onto the mainstream in recent years, the scene has been fermenting for decades, pulsing out intriguing sounds well before the current era of top-40 hits and massive arena tours touted major "EDM" names.

The notoriously press-shy Daft Punk (Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo) are featured in the May issue of GQ magazine, talking about the process of creating their upcoming album Random Access Memories. Due out later this month, it's the French duo’s first album in eight years -- not counting the soundtrack to 2010's Tron: Legacy, which they scored -- and one the two deliberated long and hard about.

DJ Mag has become the premiere polling station of dance-music enthusiasts, releasing an oft-cited annual list of the world's top DJs, as well as this week's list of the Top 100 Clubs.

Deadmau5 will not be working with Kanye West any time soon.

Asked which rapper he would like to design a live show for, the Canadian electro-house producer said: “Anyone other than f---ing Kanye. I f---ing hate him.”

His comments appear in a story in the February/March issue of Vibe, the cover of which he shares with Mary J. Blige.

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Get those glow sticks ready, EDM fans, because Electric Daisy Carnival returns to Las Vegas in just one month.

Hitting the stage once again is electronic dance music pioneer David Guetta, who recently signed on for a 2012 residency with the Wynn in Sin City. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter at a recent taping for MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew, the France native contemplates how to top last year’s headline-making festival.