Slothrop, seems to me the only difference between the two approaches you describe is what you call the finished product. If I am an IDM producer and make a dubstep tune, who's to say what genre it fits in? The people who buy it and play it will decide. If it gets played in dubstep sets, than likely as not it's a dubstep tune.
I have to say I find the whole 'keep dubstep pure' movement that's picked up lately really unappealing. If the music can't survive a little rough and tumble with a few other genres without losing it's identity than maybe there's a reason for that. If the music is as great as you think it is it will survive all such encounters and come away more diverse and enriched.
There haven't been many dubstep tunes lately that have caught my interest, I feel things are getting orthodox and formularized and so I'm happy to see new blood fucking with the formula. I don't think this is going to stop the producers I like from making good music, so who cares?
I have to say I find the whole 'keep dubstep pure' movement that's picked up lately really unappealing. If the music can't survive a little rough and tumble with a few other genres without losing it's identity than maybe there's a reason for that. If the music is as great as you think it is it will survive all such encounters and come away more diverse and enriched.
There haven't been many dubstep tunes lately that have caught my interest, I feel things are getting orthodox and formularized and so I'm happy to see new blood fucking with the formula. I don't think this is going to stop the producers I like from making good music, so who cares?