is that it’s like hundreds of warring little tribes with too few chiefs to guide and unite them. And that is why despite its conceptual thrust of innovation, electronic music continues to largely sputter and stagnate faceless blobs, crushed mercilessly around a few visionary pockets. A hyperbolic interpretation of Sturgeon’s Law comes into effect, but I’m sure we can lower than crud-factor much further.
Superstar DJs and talented producers abound, but few popular leaders weave wonders across borders — and if they do, they’re usually not recognized as being “purely” electronic (see Madonna, who’s enlisted some top aces like William Orbit and Stewart Price). Whatever that means; and it might as well mean nothing. There continues to be a disconnect between the “popular” and “artistic”, and massive failure to recognize that one can be both.
