Trance Music Broooooo

I was reading this article on DJ Tiesto and found it interesting in the way it relates to our class.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-night-dj-tiesto-20111008,0,3382666.story

Trance and Electronic music is huge now, DJ's like Tiesto and Swedish House Mafia have been selling out venues like Madison Square Garden. The surge has been generated mainly by college age listeners, and each DJ's major fanbase stems from their facebook following.

Is music entering a new digital age? These DJ's produce music entirely from synthesizers installed on their laptops. Are you a fan? Do you think of this as "real music". When people go to these concerts, are they expecting in some effect a sort of out of body, virtual experience, what with the lights and the computer images often used?

I expect a 7 page essay on the topic from all of you.