While 20th-century experimental culture was seized by a recombinatorial delirium, which made it feel as if newness was infinitely available, the 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion. 20世纪的实验文化被一种重组的谵妄所占据，让人感觉“新颖性”似乎是无限可得的，而21世纪则被一种毁灭性的有限感和枯竭感所压迫。The 'futuristic' in music has long since ceased to refer to any future that we expect to be different; it has become an established style, much like a particular typographical font. 音乐中的“未来感”早已不再指代任何我们期待会有所不同的未来；它已经变成了一种既定的风格，就像某种特定的排版字体。-----------------Imagine any record released in the past couple of years being beamed back in time to, say, 1995 and played on the radio. It’s hard to think that it will produce any jolt in the listeners. On the contrary, what would be likely to shock our 1995 audience ...