The 2010-2012 Post-Dubstep, dance music aesthetic

It seems to me there definitely is a new and 2010-2012 club-dance music aesthetic happening. It borrows from some early dubstep (Loefah, Kode9) but it also borrows from deep house and techno. It's bass led. It's mostly coming from the UK but not exclusively. It's more hypnotic than wherever broken beat, garage, dubstep and jungle went to so like deep-house, the groove is probably more important than the drop or The One. I can't tell if it's part of the hardcore continuum or not as it seems to stride across the border between the 'nuum and house/techno. The problem is that we haven't got a good name for it. And we need a name for this stuff that doesn't have the "step" syllable in it. I'm also developing a real aversion for just taking an existing genre and slapping post- or future onto it. That forces you to define it in terms of being similar but different to something that's gone before.

So I need a short hand to refer to all this stuff and preferably without going down the rabbit hole of endless sub-genrifying; Those arguments about whether this particular track is minimal-electronic-techno or is actually post-rock drone! That's actually about social group exclusion isn't it, not about describing the music?

Unfortunately dubstep has now completely jumped the shark and so it's no longer terribly useful to call this stuff post-dubstep. Although there is a sense in which it puts the dub back into dubstep and some of the people mentioned below have been called dubstep in the past. Some people will try and tell you it also includes a bunch of self aware rap, hiphop, and R&B that has taken elements of the UK bass production style and applied it to sources and remixes; the likes of Drake, Lana del Rey, A$ap, Azealia Banks[1] and so on. I'm sure it's post-modern, it might be post dubstep, some of it is even good but it's not what we're talking about here.

There was a time when everything was like Radiohead. If you used recommendation engines or those graphical music explorers, no matter where you started you were always only 2 degrees of separation from a Radiohead album. Well this time around
almost every artist and album is apparently like Burial - Untrue and Street Halo. So if you want to explore, you could do worse than simply start there.

Still listening? Want to explore further? Try these.
http://whitenoisereview.blogspot.com
http://thequietus.com/
http://www.thewire.co.uk/
http://minorscience.blogspot.com/
http://mthrfnkr.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/OOUKFunkyOO
http://www.last.fm/tag/post-dubstep
http://energyflashbysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2009/02/hardcore-continuum-or-theory-and-its.html

And a long list of artists. Some of this is pre-2010, but it seems to me it still fits into the same grouping.

2562, Andy Stott, Applebim, Author, Balam Acab, Bass Clef, Benjamin Damage & Doc Daneeka, Benoit & Sergio, Benoit Pioulard, Blanck Mass, Blawan, BNJMN, Boddika & Joy Orbison, Bok Bok, Boddika, Bon Iver, Brokenchord, Bruno Pronsato, Burial, Caribou, Chairman Kato, Clams Casino, Cooly G, Cut Hands, Cuthead, Damu, Darkstar, Dauwd, Deadboy, Deepchord, Disclosure, Distance, DJ Rum, Doc Daneeka, Dropxlife, Duskky, Echospace, EQD, Eleven Tigers, Eskmo, FaltyDL, Fantastic Mr Fox, Fanu, Four Tet, Geiom, George Fitzgerald, Glen Porter, Gold Panda, Gonjasufi, Helios, heRobust, Hurtdeer, Jack Sparrow, Jacques Greene, Jahbitat, James Blake, Jamie Woon, Jamie XX, Joe Beats, Julio Bashmore, King Midas Sound, Komonazmuk, Koreless, Kryptic Minds, Kuedo, Late, Levon Vincent, Locked Groove, Machine Drum, Marc Romboy, Martyn, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Matthew Dear, Maya Jane Coles, Moomin, Mosca, Nicolas Jaar, Nocturnal Sunshine, Nosaj Thing, Orphan101, Pangaea, Pariah, Pearson Sound, Perc, Petrels, Peverelist, Phaeleh, Pinch, Pinch & Shackleton, Planas, Point B, Praveen, Praveen & Benoit, Quark, Raime, Ramadanman, Ruckspin, Salva, Sandwell District, SBTRKT, Scuba, Sepalcure, Shackleton, Shlohmo, Sigha, Sully, Synkro, Teebs, Tev95, The Field, The Weeknd, Tim Hecker, Tycho, Untold, wAgAwAgA, Xi, XXXY, Zomby

[1]Ok, damn you. Yes to 212. But no Drake, please!3 The Wash