EDM

Neither matters all that much, nor is any kind of rationale necessary to fall sway to director Oliver Laxe’s deliriously cool survival story, gassed by a pedal-to-the-metal need for speed and pounding EDM music which, if played at the proper volume, should rattle your rib cage.

The fourth Cannes film by the French-born Spanish director Oliver Laxe, it’s about dirtbag ravers who’ve gathered in a barren stretch of Morocco for a stunning party: orange cliffs, neon lights, thumping EDM beats and dancers thrashing in the dust like the living dead.

Pietsch's song, Wasted Love, is a turbulent ballad that makes spectacular use of his counter-tenor, with an EDM twist.

At this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, End Overdose, a Burbank-based organization, had a booth near the festival’s EDM stages offering naloxone training, free doses and a variety of swag.

Some pop-friendly guests, like the EDM composer Zedd and Icelandic jazz phenom Laufey, will join the Phil for one-off collaborations.