As dance music crossed into the new millennium, the metamorphic energy of the ’90s entered warp speed. Genres that had birthed subgenres were now resulting in ever more nuanced microgenres.
“Broken beat, dubstep, grime, Baltimore and Jersey Club are still going strong,” says World Cafe correspondent John Morrison. “It’s just been waves and waves of these rapidly evolving styles and scenes, and in the past few years, I’ve noticed a kind of, like, hyperfixation on remixing amongst young musicians.”
Morrison says music is more fluid and ever-changing now than at any time in our history, and dance music is right in the center of that movement. Remixing has enabled DJs and producers to endlessly rearrange and alter original tracks.
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