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  • Dubstep is just as much a recycled genre/subgenre as anything else?

    If you’re after something new to your ears it really shouldn’t fit neatly into any genre, right?

    Listen to OPN’s R Plus Seven. Electronic in its production, yes. But it’s got a ton of orchestral structure/texture to it…on top of chopped vocal samples.

    Or how about some Floating Points? Again, electronic for sure. But there’s definitely a fluency in the conversation between electronic dance and jazz that wasn’t there a few decades ago.

    Murlo

    Photay. Seriously who was doing lush layered multi instrument compositions like this over electronic music pre-2000 not named Bjork?

    All leap from genre to genre effortlessly enough while also having a ton of electronics sensibilities. Maybe it’s recycling genres, but I think in some instances mastery in disparate areas leads to a greater sum than the parts.