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"What's left of this past projection of the present though? Chal Ravens insists that “the idea of an energetic and self-sustaining local scene becomes not just desirable but urgently necessary”."

It matters not if the scene is still dominated by (overwhelmingly white and middle class) intelligentsia, graphic designers, students, which is a self-perpetuating international network, often parasitically feeding off parent (former)scenes it (gentrifi)ed or in the quest to milk a new cash cow (I.E: the middle East // I'm writing this when the club culture is entirely silent on the tragedies caused by one of the biggest urban planning disasters of the 21st c.)

This contraposition between localism and globalism is nothing but inevitable microcapitalist inanity. Maybe the question is never the fiction of so-called (scene)s...

At any rate, electronic music cultural discourse is based on the unsustainable and destructive antithesis between the towns, cities and countryside. Be that London, Detroit, Brussels...

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