Laurel Halo, Zola Jesus, Young Marco, and more make the year-end favorites from our monthly column In dance and electronic music, DJ sets play a role that has no real analog in other genres: an invisible layer stretched across the face of the music, an alternate dimension where disparate tracks are cobbled together into a form that may transcend the individual parts. The best DJs play a curatorial
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