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Bangers, be gone. This year the Recording Academy has fully dropped its inclusion of straight-up EDM and even the inclusion of its more sophisticated cousin, IDM. Instead, the 2021 dance/electronic nominations are celebrating relatively experimental output by artists well-known and much-beloved in the dance scene Kaytranada, Baauer, Flume and Arca among them. Those names come alongside a historic nom for Jayda G, dance acts sprinkled throughout non-dance categories and other highlights of this year s nominations crop. Here are seven things the Grammys got right in this year s dance/electronic nominations and a few things they got wrong, too. ....