and here's why.

Jazz was built on Innovation and Improvisation. Electronic Music, is pretty much built on the back of the shit that came before it, and with technological advances, the likes of which aren't really inherent to other genres of music.

Meaning, As Dope as *insert* is, he made a track with a lot of knob twisting and software. Not that that doesn't mean he didn't invent anything. But the hours that John Coltrane and Miles spent rehearsing and exploring music to get that *sound* can be matched in hours, if not minutes using plug-ins, and other editing software.

AND we have books and tutorials for all this shit. Are Electronic artists innovative? Absolutely. Is there any imrovisation? To some degree, yes. But to declare it on a similar level to Jazz is overstating it.




(I'm gonna go back and re read some of the replies in this post, maybe you guys already touched on this.)