Had Instagram for ages but never got into looking at it regularly until quite recently.... the algorithm has learned to serve me up dance music, above all reels of deejays playing tunes, either in their living room, or it's clips of them performing at a rave. What follows are some thoughts on dance music today informed entirely by the Instagram perspectiveTimeisNOTnowI say ‘dance music today', but the first thing that comes across on Instagram is not-todayness: how dance music exists in a state of complete atemporality. Tunes from decades ago sit alongside current tunes that are either just incrementally different contributions to an established tradition (techno, house, d&B, trance) or they are outright retro (with just a glisten of contemporary production polish). Deejays draw from across a huge bank of stuff, where the long-ago and the this-minute are equally valid. There's a tremendous awareness of history - a lot of clips are like very brief history lessons, on a genre or even a…
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