Footwork feels uncanny because its sounds are familiar yet arranged anew

Evidence

But footwork is new in a strange way. It’s not historically new: it dates back to the Nineties. And what’s uncanny, unheimlich, about footwork is that practically everything in the sonic palette is familiar. Most of the sounds on Double Cup feel like they could have come from the twentieth century, even if they have actually been produced in the twenty-first. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1329

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fisher deploys Freud’s unheimlich to characterize footwork’s specific strangeness — familiar elements arranged to feel unprecedented.