Ever notice?

that with white folk playing black music that there's always this dichotomy in terms of acceptable genres, and it's practically always based on the vocalcentricity of the music? White people can't sing the blues, but they can play jazz (they can, usually/sometimes, sing it, as well) - white people can't have soul, but they can be funky - reggae is off-limits but we can do dub - crackers aren't supposed to rap, but nobody says they can't produce hip hop.

See?

I don't think anything like this exists in EDM, despite being invented by gay black men, because, like rock, it's become so thoroughly colonized by straight white men.

This is probably either not as pervasive as I'm making it seem, or it's been talked to death and I just missed all the discourse, heh. 

ZIa's "The Frontline"

might be the best pop album I've heard since at least the Ann Steel album, if not E-MO-TION. Even the ballads aren't, y'know, just ballads. "Foolish" is a goddamn jam amongst jamz. That afrosynth mediafire download folder is revealing itself to be a goldmine.