DnB with 'flavour' (musical identity, replay value) outlasts technically-competent but disposable tracks

Dillinja and Lemon D distinguish DnB tracks with ‘flavour’ — musical identity, character, and replay value that keeps them ‘still rocking’ years later — from tracks that are ‘disposable’: technically competent but lacking any cohesive musical statement. They characterise the disposable strain as ‘smashing stinking rubbish’: crashing cymbals and borrowed techno elements ‘mismashed’ together with no heart or soul. Their diagnosis is temporal: DnB up to about 1996 had enough flavoured classics; a later phase lost them; and they hear flavour returning. Flavour, in their account, is what makes a track worth keeping rather than consuming once.

Examples

Lemon D: ‘96 and before… they’ve got flavours and they’re kind of still rocking.’ Contrasted with a phase of ‘smashing stinking rubbish… a mismash of crashing cymbals with techno smashed into it.‘

Assessment

State two concrete properties Dillinja/Lemon D use to tell ‘flavoured’ DnB from disposable tracks.