Pop Goes the Dancefloor - Duke Dumont, Bondax, George FitzGerald, Jessy Lanza, and the Role of Pop in Today's Electronic Sphere

For all its preaching about inclusivity, the dance-music community often likes to pride itself on appealing to certain sects while shunning others. Still, most years produce at least one ubiquitous hit, a track that balances hook and edge so deftly that it transcends style and audience; Tensnake's "Coma Cat" and Storm Queen's "Look Right Through" provide a couple of recent examples. Lately there has been a movement, particularly in UK chart pop, to replicate these tracks' success ...

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