As genres mutate and multiply, the etymologists of electronica delve deeper into the arcana of minute differences and emerge with hair-split explanations of the latest viruses inflecting the worlds of club and home listening.
Different Circles co-founder Mumdance and his cohort of DJ’s, producers and beat scientists have alighted on “Ping.” Not, Mumdance stresses, perhaps with tongue slightly lodged in cheek, a genre, more a feeling based on freedom from the tyranny of the kick drum. Back in the day we may have pointed to the Clicks & Cuts compilations, to Oval, Microstoria, Pole and other adventurers in scrape, float and bleep and declared them new, liberated from structure. Now “Ping” and what to make of it.

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