when looking at it from the trap perspective out. but when you examine where they pull these techniques from to apply them to trap, it's a watering down of the techniques. it works synergistically but it bottoms out in terms of moving forward so that they either have to go more trap or abandon it all together. meanwhile the folk that are outside of that label are continuously pushing it.

machinedrum is a great figure in it all because he has so much of that influence from the idm perspective. he floats in and out of the trends on a whim, and becomes a defining point for them, but can always fall back to his roots so to speak to put out some shit that bucks the trends because of his mastery of the techniques.

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