/lit/ - Literature

Didn't read the thread, only OP's mesage.

If the future of music is to be achieve through technical exploration, then we've hit a ceiling and the only way I can think of that doesn't involve remixing old genres would be to redefine the medium of music itself.
For instance: interactive music. A song that reads your brainwaves and generates patterns live, but with some sort of algorithm. Writing this algorithm to produce certain patterns that appeal to people would be the artistic part. And different patterns of algorithm would emerge, forming new genres.
Another example would be tactile music. Maybe we'll both hear and feel patterns at the same time as a way to enjoy music.

The other path is exploring other cultures. Maybe Arab music and its different musical scale will become the new rage, and even though it's "old news", no one has any clue about this sort of music, so it could easily be pushed as something new and fresh to the entire Western world.
Much of this has been explored, but there is still a lot to be recycled here. We hear a lot of Arab music featured here and there, but all in a traditional context. Get those unfamiliar notes and turn them into electronic sounds, chords, what-have-you and BAM, a new trend.

As an afterthought, there ARE some new genres here and there like all the memewaves and the retarded monotonic raps like those "This is America" short shouted sentences genre. I don't follow trends and am still stuck in 2015 with my music backlog, so I can't comment much.