Atom™ on the state of electronic music

…When your input is “media”, your “today” is somebody else’s past! That being said, the little contemporary music that reaches me and which, I guess, would be considered “electronic music”, I usually don’t find very exciting. As with everything, there is WAY too much of the same out there, and stuff that surprises me is rare. Not to get me wrong, this is not a complaint… I think I have gone beyond that. The current state of affairs, may it be in electronic music or other fields, is very similar everywhere. This has, of course, to do with the general cultural climate and its relationship to the economy and information technology. The point in history, where electronic music had no other template than one’s own imagination is certainly over. The very templates of the past have made the creation of new, unknown templates almost impossible. This is a structural issue of the genre which has transformed it into its current state. I am totally fine with this, though at the same time don’t really feel like I have anything to do with it.