Deconstructed club

Deconstructed club, also known as post-club or deconstructed music, is an experimental style of electronic dance music characterized by a post-modernist approach and an abrasive or dystopian tone. It stands opposed to the tropes of mainstream club styles, often dispensing with four-on-the-floor beats and stable rhythm while mixing eclectic sources, including grime, Jersey club, industrial, techno, rap, ballroom, and footwork.

Deconstructed club departs from the tropes of traditional and mainstream dance music, such as four on the floor beats, stable tempos, build-ups, and drops. Instead, it is identified by an aggressive, frantic, post-industrial sound design drawing from multiple genres and featuring metallic or staccato sounds such as samples of glass smashing or gunshots. It incorporates a wide dynamic tempo range and elements from disparate genres such as jersey club kick-patterns, grime claps, ballroom samples, jittery footwork production, field recordings, rapping, house, techno, and industrial textures. The label NAAFI in Mexico has numerous artists who mix genres such as trival and reggaeton to reformulate deconstructed club music.

The style was chiefly sparked by a New York dance night named GHE20G0TH1K, These parties featured voguers, punks, and fashionista, The style that defined the deconstructed club movement was directly shaped by the possibilities of CDJs and inspired producers to imitate this chaotic experimentation in their own music. The MP3s used by DJs on GHE20G0TH1K had a crunchy, cruddy texture while being played on a big sound system, which came to define their aesthetic. The term itself started circulating in the mid-2010s and was used as an umbrella term to describe a disparate, international genus of producers pushing the limits or boundaries of club music and tapping into the avant-garde.

The music is often accompanied by music videos with visual art. Some of the artists studied visual arts rather than music. The visuals are often abstract and feature mutational, grotesque, and decomposing forms. This cross between the visuals and experimental electronic music has become so prominent that one of the key labels in the genre, PAN, has launched an imprint, "Entopia", dedicated to producing soundtracks for art installations, films, theater works, dance, and fashion podiums.