of course the dance dudes in the post before last, they were bemoaning a malaise in their immediate environment,which is "mnml &____" , minimal and the stuff around it -the hipster mainstream of dancefloor-oriented electronic music I guess you could call it ... centered on Germany, dominant in Europe, strong in the UK and the rest of the world... but it's not the whole story by any means... i daresay there's pockets of stuff that's not in those dudes' immediate purview, not in the forefront of their consciousness, that could be construed as more vibrant, maybe... for instance, funky, as much as I'm not feeling it that much, at least seems like it's packed with producers trying new moves, throwing all kinds of stuff into the pot, trying to find a way forward...

but mnml, i knew the jig was up when I heard that this year the technoscenti were going back to deep house. Because that's really circling back to zero... That's actually rewinding the clock to 1989 and the great divide (first of many) when some backed away from acieeed and the early stirrings of what would become hardcore, went back to the souly side of Chicago and to New Jersey... condemned themselves to passivity and piety... Going back to deep house, that's like the erasure of Europe, of everything that happened in the Nineties!