Music

Electro house had only just begun to exist as a subgenre in 2004. If you want to play that game you can go all the way back to the origins of sampling, because people have always been sampling jazz records.

2002, actually. And yes, we can! In fact, let's do so, because this is still a good song:

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However, Parov Stelar was the first to stop using it as mere experimentation. Moving on:

Gypsy jazz is not swing, and swing is not gypsy jazz. They are related but different styles of music.

Also true. However:

they are largely meaningless and useless if you're musically educated.

If you're going to be that atomic about it, you're essentially excluding most of the general public from discussion. That seems kind of pretentious, and is certainly something I'm not interested in. That's why I believe umbrella terms are in fact necessary.

Also: I think I'll choose how I want to label my music, thank you very much.

I have no more interest in trying to argue this point, since our views clearly differ. We're done here.