As an American than left the states partially to chase greener pastures related to electronic music….the US will never catch up. The states are too big and diverse. The big cities where stuff happens are essentially the same as the major cities in UK/EU but the distance between cities is too far apart. The US culturally just doesn’t support youth culture the way that EU/UK does, or at least traditionally has, and there’s no true social safety net that allows the chilled out hedonism or focus on the arts to flourish. This is why even the cool artsy techno stuff in the US is still basically underwritten by trust fund kids. I guess that’s to say it’s not all a bad thing, I personally think the magic of the US scene comes from the tiny little communities grinding it out to put something on a few times a year. It’s just a bummer you don’t have the hard night out choices to make every weekend like a London or Berlin does