Grime and dubstep bred out house’s influence while the Junior Boys restored it

Evidence

That skunk-fugged heaviness remains the antipodes of the Junior Boys’ cyberian, etherealised, plaintive physicality; listening to the Junior Boys after Grime or Dubstep is like walking out of a locker room thick with dope smoke out onto a Caspar David Friedrich mountain. A lung-cleansing experience. (Significant also that those other ultra-heterosexual post-Garage musics should have bred out the influence of House, while the Junior Boys return to it so emphatically.) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 487

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fisher links grime/dubstep’s ‘ultra-heterosexual’ coding to their dropping of house’s influence — worth chasing whether this gendering claim holds up in the scholarship.