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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  4236 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Album Cycle: Where Do We Go From Here?

Except that punk is a "stripping down" of rock, a de-ornamentation. Dubstep is a "tarting up" of techno - it's pure ornamentation.

Nobody makes Goa Trance anymore because its logical progression basically hit "Industrial" and stopped. I mean, it was ornate, sample-heavy, bleepy and angry:

The bands that are left are basically pure industrial at this point. Juno Reactor went from this:

To this:

Dubstep? Dubstep takes the corner of Jungle that Goldie and Squarepusher stripmined to death and beats it like a dead horse: