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  • 2018
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2018
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary What We Started is the definitive electronic dance film. Featured throughout the documentary are heavy-weight electronic dance music artists, including Carl Cox, Martin Garrix, Erick Morillo, Moby, David Guetta, Afrojack, Paul Oakenfold, Seth Troxler, and Tiesto. There are also cameos from musical superstars, like Usher and Ed Sheeran, w...

Directed By: Bert Marcus, Cyrus Saidi

Written By: Bert Marcus, Cyrus Saidi

  • 2018
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2018
  • Abramorama
  • 1 h 34 m

What We Started

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Summary What We Started is the definitive electronic dance film. Featured throughout the documentary are heavy-weight electronic dance music artists, including Carl Cox, Martin Garrix, Erick Morillo, Moby, David Guetta, Afrojack, Paul Oakenfold, Seth Troxler, and Tiesto. There are also cameos from musical superstars, like Usher and Ed Sheeran, w...

Directed By: Bert Marcus, Cyrus Saidi

Written By: Bert Marcus, Cyrus Saidi

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70
Jan 4, 2019
What We Started achieves the directors stated goal of being an impressively comprehensive history of EDM. So much so that the film drags: unless one is a truly deep aficionado, 90 densely packed minutes of info about EDM is too much. It would work better with more music and less detail.
By Bradley Gibson FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 5, 2018
Though it offers a decent enough primer on dance music history, it’s so eager to play all the hits that it never quite settles into any particular groove.
By Andrew Barker FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 22, 2018
What We Started is a cute roundup of how EDM came to be, but much like the DJs it shines a light on, it only scratches the surface.
By Craig D. Lindsey FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 22, 2018
What We Started appears to have been conceived with contradictory audiences in mind. On one hand, it tries to present an accessible history of electronic music, starting with its outgrowth from disco, house and techno and continuing through its commercialization and fusion with pop. On the other hand, a subcultural cliquishness creeps into the movie.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 22, 2018
Perhaps because it wants to play to both sides, the film's viewpoint is awfully muddied when it addresses conflict between traditional DJs — who know how to handle turntables, read a crowd's mood and do their thing for many hours at a time — and those who premix a whole set to a USB stick, hit play and just bounce up and down onstage.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bert Marcus Productions
Release Date Mar 23, 2018
Duration 1 h 34 m
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Website http://www.whatwestartedmovie.com/
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