"If anything, Deadmau5 has made a cottage industry out of stripping things from dance music that used to feel important: texture, subtlety, slickness."
"American dubstep is like a laboratory-engineered, steroidal, no-fat version of its British counterpart, which even as it’s become more popular has maintained some of the texture that links it to dub music. British dubstep still belongs in dank clubs; American dubstep belongs in sports arenas."
-Jon Caramanica, New York Times.
fucking well put.
if you're interested in reading the rest of the article (which at this point has been overdone--basically chat about Deadmau5, Skrillex and the evolution of American EDM, but with an emphasis on the new obsession with light shows and visual display), head here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/arts/ ... .html?_r=1