Daphni, 'Jiaolong' (Merge)

October 10, 2012 – "Retro" is easy. In dance music, producers with the right sample packs and presets — and DJs with the right records — can all do it, and then do it, and do it some more. The last half-decade has given rise to the genre's first major assertion of its throwback impulse; oddly, it's stadium EDM that's doing the most blatantly futurismo stuff, twisting dubstep's low end every goddamn way. …
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