Tasty mass-produced food products are cheap and plentiful.
Computers almost work, sometimes.
And electronic musicians are beginning to look to other forms of music for sources of sound and inspiration, resulting in some pretty goddamned excellent stuff. But when dealing almost entirely with generated sounds, one is afforded a certain freedom to manipulate sound as a whole entity. Increasingly, it seems that this kind of freedom to experiment is being utilized by electronic artists daring to venture outside the realm of what is traditionally seen as electronic territory. You Turned Out to Be utilized more rock-oriented instruments and songwriting mechanisms, coupled with a freedom to experiment with sound as a whole that's characteristic of the more evolved members of the sequencer set. I've heard this year.