It’s like I’ve been holding for all for us to make a positive and really a good impact on the music scene and the music
industrym, and contribute properly to a legacy that already ours is by putting OUR MUSIC in the forefront and
pushing it the right way.
-NADUS, Jersey ClUB PRODUCER
Like jazz, blues, and hip-hop, electronic dance music is urban American music. It evolved out of the black and queer nightclubs of Detroit and Chicago in the early 80s, birthing techno and house music respectively. These sounds made their way to New York and then exploded across Europe, where producers fused them with local influences, creating the multiple genres and subcultures that are collectively known today as “dance music.”
Filmed over the course of two years across the US & Europe, Until the Sun Comes Up takes the viewer on a deep dive into electronic dance music culture by following producers, DJs, managers and record label owners who live and breathe their local music scenes. Some of them have had mainstream success. Many have not. But all of them are well-respected, widely known, lovably improbable celebrities who, in the midst of the commercial EDM fervor, are trying to educate audiences on one simple fact: Dance Music is not a genre, but a global music movement with a 30 year history.
Each episode examines the social political and technological factors that helped shape the distinctive styles of music from Detroit to NY, LA, London, Berlin and Paris and Newark, as told by the artists themselves.
“Dance music is not revolution. It is evolution” - Manu Barron, Bromance Records
