I suggest that culture is the thermostat of spirit. Electronic music culture is a philosophy of transformation and celebratory rituals identified by repetitive rhythms and ecstatic dancing. It is more than techno and trance, just as the Grateful Dead phenomenon was about more than the music.
Music is the kinetic motion of culture.
Every powerful shift in paradigms within a culture has infinite effect upon the art that proceeds it. That art in turn creates a shift in paradigms upon the next generation that experiences it. Unorthodox music is the great signifier of cultural change, and we are rapidly stepping into one of these times. The last ten years have seen every music form on earth crossbred, and manipulated to create new forms. Indian banghra music is a major influence on the psychedelic trance community, and dub and break beat have morphed into drum n' bass.