i feel like the dis-location of communities from historic urban neighbourhoods is totally mirrored by the dis-location of music(s) from their historic local cultures. while the accumulation of land is perhaps more openly colonial than the accumulation of vinyl histories, or of digital-era “genre accumulation” (thanks so much for coining and/or sharing that term!), to me they seem like part of the same thing. the ghetto-ization of genre that poirier spoke of could only happen within a system where we also see the ghetto-ization, and gentrification, of neighbourhoods.

first-world dj’s have the privilege of taking away another community’s infrastructure – whether it be real estate, actual vinyl artifacts, or something as basic as nomenclature (as all these different local scenes just become “tropical bass”) – without necessarily having any accountability for developing infrastructure on THAT community’s terms. i think this is what DJ Ripley was hinting at when discussing the seriousness she gained from record-digging trips…..finding more paths to accountability is what excites me so much about the work of everyone on that panel! so yeah, thanks again, it is REALLY good to get to hear so much insightful talk about these issues. please keep up the great work!