Deconstructed Club
An experimental electronic dance music genre, characterized as a post-modernist counterpart to house and techno. The style was born in New York dance parties named GHE20G0TH1K. These parties featured voguers, punks, and fashionistas, took place in warehouses across Brooklyn and Manhattan, and started to radicalize the city’s nightclub scene.
The genre steps away from traditional and mainstream dance music tropes, such as four-on-the-floor beats, stable tempos, build-ups, and drops. Instead, it is identified by an aggressive, frantic, post-industrial sound design, featuring metallic or staccato sounds such as samples of glass smashing and gunshots. Deconstructed club aims for an excessive, apocalyptic-sounding soundscape, with constant rhythmic switch-ups and atonality. 2009– .