I don’t like him as much as the next “electronic music aesthete” but this piece is a refreshingly rational defence of the bro-step posterboy. In a way, electronic music fans are like their metal cousins: if it isn’t TR00 KVLT, it’s trash.
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Skrillex’s music is the worst nightmare of electronic music aesthetes because he doesn’t give a shit about the carefully enforced micro-genres, cultural hierarchies, and bro/nerd distinctions that characterize producers, D.J.s, clubs, and every other facet of contemporary dance music life. [But] Skrillex is not doing it for art. As he’s often said, he’s doing it for fun. And for that reason, Skrillex is pretty punk.
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