Few musical genres capture the dizzying creative potential and sobering commercial realities of today’s moment quite like electronic music. With fast-evolving technologies regularly opening up new possibilities in sound, aspiring artists have vast, evergrowing resources with which to prod the limits of music. But concurrent realities abound, such as the often-prohibitive costs of digital tools, industry hyperfixation on the most dominant trends (see: the ever-bloating corpse of lo-fi beats playlists, or the number of times the word hyperpop entered a conversation in 2020), and federal disinterest in funding young musicians in any category beyond classical, opera, or jazz. Emerging electronic artists—especially those experimentally inclined, or coming from outside places of privilege—face steep barriers.