Only recently discovered that the ghetto/booty house legacy of Chicago (check out the Dance Mania label) has morphed into something called Footwork, which is the most wonderfully abstract hip hop/house mash up you can imagine and created purely for 'footwork' dancers.
This is one of my fave tracks by one of the scene's leading innovators DJ Rashad - Reverb
And here's an example of 'footwork':
I've also been relistening to one of my favourite artists who skirts the noise/drone/electronica periphery in his own inimitable and provocative style:
NON aka. Boyd Rice - Out Out Out
And one of France's leading electronic innovators and experimentalists from the late 70s and 80s who made this delight:
Bernard Szajner - Welcome To Death Row
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