My interest in electronic music has very VERY slowly grown since I started college. I used to be a purist when I was a drummer in High School... I just hated everything that had electronic drums. I thought that if it didn't have natural, real drums, it was just "fake," that they were "cheating." Oh how things have changed. When I got to college in 2000 I started to open up to some electronic music when I discovered the world of Fruity Loops, and then the world of Reason. Those programs were interesting to me, and the first sub-genre of electronic music I got into was jungle/drum & bass. I started listening to this M'boro band called Junk Buddha, and their drummer's style mimicked the syncopated, frantic electronic rhythms of jungle/drum & bass. This was the gateway that opened me up to electronic music, and even a little hip-hop. My taste in electronic music is still very selective, however, and I've never enjoyed the tech-y, trancey stuff that you find at raves and such. I enjoy material that's still rooted in the concept of a "song" rather than just loops of layered patterns fading in/out and being run through annoying filters and envelopes. Lately I've been really enjoying the retro disco-ey stuff that's been becoming popular in the indie dance parties such as Left Can Dance. To me, the pinnacle of this mini-movement right now is JUSTICE. This French duo's new album is the shit. It's one of the first times I've been able to actually enjoy a whole electronica album all the way through. Some of you may be way more immersed in this scene than I am, and are probably thinking of some other artist who's hot beatz would blow my mind, and if so, please let me know. I'm certainly no veteran of electronic music, therefore I'm still navigating my way through its history and learning where it came from and where it's going. All that said, if you want a danceable good time, check out JUSTICE's new album +. (It's actually a crucifix symbol, but I'm too lazy to look up the key combo to type that character.)