Don't miss the pick of the month . Every movement in art, it seems, flowers from the soil of a self-described subculture, and electronic music is no different. Both scenes, particularly in their home turf of the U.K., are arranged around the socialized use of drugs, with Ecstasy being the chemical of choice for most. Musicians, too, attach themselves to the scene as a way of taking their aesthetic bearings. Scenesters complain that weirdstep sucks all the funk out of the groove, that it's a musical dilettante's idle diversion, that it doesn't work on the dancefloor.
Innovation comes from distance.
But the human will to gather and form exclusive societies, it seems, is far stronger than the critical perspective that would rather see scenes wither into irrelevance. The CD lines up an insanely fun mix of just about every dance genre nameable. It's candy, but it's good for you, too.