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Chenier’s Electric Hustle: What Happens When Zydeco Meets the Machine?
At first, Zydeco and electronic dance music may seem to occupy opposite ends of the musical world. One evokes accordion bellows, corrugated metal, wooden dance floors, humid Louisiana nights, electric bass and musicians responding to one another in real time. The other evokes synthesizers, sequencers, sub-bass, drum machines, filters and precisely constructed electronic environments. Listen beneath the instruments, however, and something interesting happens. The two tradition
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