The funny thing is - Dance music, techno, trance, House and electro music has been around since the early 90s...

Only recently in the past 2-3 years has the new buzz word "EDM" evolved from thin air.

Guess what EDM stands for? "Electronic Dance Music"... WOW I didn't know electronic Dance Music was such a new thing? LOL

Most if not all Arranger keyboards have had a section called "DANCE" since the dawn of time... and in this Dance category there has always lived a style called "techno", or "House" or "Dance" or "Euro Dance" etc and they all had a typical doof doof type kick bass line at around 140bpm with pads, hand claps and drum rolls... they may be quite generic and not as specific but still technically "EDM"...

and the problem with this traditionally is if all you have is 1 or 2 Dance styles your music becomes very repetitive and somewhat lacking of any creativity or imagination.

In order to make comprehensive, creative and unique electronic dance music you need tools such as arpeggiaters, knobs, buttons, switches, assignable pads, hard drum beats, deep bases. All that Casio is doing here is making these tools available. and guess what - they even included all the original bread and butter Arranger stuff... nothing has been left out.

If this is not your thing then its quite easy actually... don't buy the machine !! And Stop criticizing something you haven't even SEEN or HEARD in real life !!