[3dee]

No music style appeared out of nowhere. So it will always be hard to pinpoint where things started. Maybe it is even impossible.

I always have a mixed feeling about music style classifications. It shifts focus from the music to discussions about what style a piece of music is.

Maybe techno originated from rhytmic tribe music. Who knows. Personally I don't care.

[kristopolous]

The classification limits the perception like the Himbu color experiment.

That's why these early pre-language explorations are great.

Luckily there's a lot of independent artists these days that are exploring things and refusing to label them with an abstract genre.

We need our modern John Cages to feel empowered. I think it's important.

[hnlmorg]

I was one of those independent artists and frankly it was sometimes a lot harder to get booked in the early to mid 00s because people started to identify themselves with those labels. The techno crowd were generally more open minded but outside of that things would often get ridiculously pigeon-holed.