>Again, on what scale? Is there some state of perfection you're
>judging these forms against?

But I'm not thinking of it as hierarchical but rather continuations. Jazz was a culmination of what had come before it. There have been deconstructions from that point. Arguably jazz is a reconstruction to the blues. R&B and soul are deconstructions from the blues. Hip-hop is a deconstruction from r&b/soul. All of these built upon foundations previously laid and created new things but not things that existed outside of what had been previously construction, the depth of that form expressed through jazz.

Electronic is a reconstruction of all of western musical history which allows for the first push forward from the foundational construction since jazz. The way at arriving at that possibility is via a language that bridges the two palates.

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