Pretty much all electronica, really, is DIY bed room electronica—it's in dance music's family tree, only created by motionless, isolated people sitting at computers. But by playing up digital music's potential for expressive messiness, a fairly recent strain allies itself with rock's do-it-yourself sectors. The laptop underground loves beats, but it doesn't especially care about moving bodies. Imperfect and nonmechanical sounds are its staples, and its artifacts are meant to seem handmade, either... More >>>