Various Artists

In a country where youth culture has been heavily restricted for so long, it's significant when a cultural form such as this has an opportunity to reach a wider audience - aided by the abstract nature of dark ambient, drone and noise. In comparison, the dance music scene in Iran has a harder time taking root due to the illegality of men and women dancing in public together. However, the growth of the experimental electronic scene is going to be about more than a mere novelty reaction to a political paradigm shift.