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Yeah, you're spot on but I think it's in part driven by music geeks as much as the industry. Music nerds do love sub-genres. It's as true for dance music (as above) as it is for heavy metal (thrash, dark, melodic black..) as it is for country (alt-country, Americana, bluegrass, Tex-Mex...). What...

I'm not so sure that's true, especially when it comes to electronic music. Just have a look at Beatport and Juno and the sub-genres around dance music - nu-disco, minimal, techno, deep house, electro, breakbeat, trance, industrial... there definitely seems to be a place for them. I agree though...

The Billboard charts have decided that Gary Numan's music isn't electronic enough to qualify for their charts https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2017/oct/08/gary-numan-is-the-electronic-music-legends-new-album-really-not-electronic