> For someone who seems to have been around the scene for quite a while, you come off as woefully uneducated on the history of electronic music.

I suppose that's one way of saying you have a different perspective from mine.

>Electronic music is and has always been an international phenomenon. Innovations happen due to cross-pollination of styles, not because specifically white Europeans "mature" it. >The Techno that blew up in Europe was initially imported from African Americans. Jungle/DNB was born out of mixing UK Hardcore with Jamaican Reggae/Dancehall/Dub music.

I've addressed most of your points in another comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26981256

A lot of the genres that Ishkur despises are every bit as European homegrown as Motown is African-American to the bones.

> Nobody "owns" electronic music, and the scene is so much better when people stop claiming that anyone does.

Sure, but that's a bit like saying Silicon Valley doesn't own the Internet. It's technically true but SV is still (or was until very recently) a mecca, ground zero for all things Internet.

There is such a thing for music genres as well, and a good indicator of that is the extent to which that genre has bubbled up into mainstream pop music charts.