What begins as a thorough journey from the early days of house music loses its way somewhere after rave culture. The doc struggles to bridge the late 90s to modern electronic music, leaving the entire 1990s house/pop crossover movement behind, skipping eurodance and somehow landing at David Guetta swinging at crossover hits without acknowledging acts like Daft Punk and perhaps Prodigy? I found the narrative choices confusing and bland as the filmmakers tried to bridge the old (Carl Cox) with the new (Martin Garrix) by spending too much time with Martin and not enough time on telling the bigger story. I guess what it comes down to is that electronic dance music is a huge genre that rarely gets proper respect. Only the book "The Underground is Massive" came close to doing it right, and it's a much better place to spend your time.

What disappointing, this should be the history of dance? It only focuses on Martin Garrix (the young) and Carl Cox (the old ans obsolete) and their appearance on Ultra. This all is so wrong in so many ways, I do not even know where to start, there is so much they let out. Looks like Ultra has rewritten the Dance history to a single event, it is so insulting. Yes, Dance did not drop out of the sky, it has a history, but far more interesting then depicted here. You had Rock & Roll then The Sixties/ hippies, then HipHop, Rap, Break Beat and then finally House appeared, first in 3 flavors, Hardcore, Techno and Trance, from that 50+ House styles appeared like Drum & Bass (Jungle),even the Germans have their flavor of Techno called Schantz. EDM is the latest, and by my opinion, the worse style ever invented. It doesn't matter if you hear Tiesto or Garrix or Skrillex or Harris, it's all the same, exactly the same, and it's all for the big mass, and most DJ's do and cannot not mix live, they only play their prerecorded set. Sadly it is hard to find a movie that is truthful because everyone want his/her name in the history books. "30 jaar Dutch Dance bij de VPRO" it the closest we will ever get to a little inside and history of this movement. But "What We Started" is a huge disgrace and very, very insulting.

This is not music you morons...........................





-3000/10