In 2011, a host of electronic subgenres, namely dubstep and what would eventually be coined “trap,” dominated college campuses, and with them, a mutation of rave culture took place. Highlighter colors, binge drinking, and tank tops with slogans like “party with sluts” became inescapable.
One song that ran counter to this shift — raves in the 90s throughout the early aughts were all about intentional escape, rather than laser-guided, self-destructive hedonism — was none other than Hudson Mohawke’s “Cbat.”
