Every genre is now microfractured into dozens of subgenres, which in turn fracture and shed off more. This is an extremely online thing, and so I’ve let a lot of it pass me by in the past several years. Because Bandcamp isn’t algo driven, the only new stuff it shows me is by artists and labels I’ve already bought from. I’m now reaching the point where I’m feeling a bit hemmed in and everything is sounding a little the same. I feel like I should pick one genre and drill down through every odd associated hashtag until I reach some imagined pelagic zone where all the frantic subdivision is happening in the abyssal dark.
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