It’s funny to think that when Jacques Greene started making hazy, dub-inflected house music for Night Slugs in the ’10s, some critics wondered why a producer from Montreal had wound up launching his career through a London label. “My best friends at the time were people I spoke to on the internet, people I was sending tracks back and forth to,” Greene once told Resident Advisor . “To me that never felt unnatural.” These days, situations like that are commonplace. Regional sounds will never be as localized as they were before SoundCloud, YouTube, and Bandcamp. Today, cross-regional pollination is the norm. DJ K , a producer who lives on the outskirts of São Paulo, released his last Brazilian funk album on Ugandan label Nyege Nyege Tapes. Los Angeles-based Skrillex is sending files of New York jerk to Upper West Side native xaviersobased .

Greene’s music still belongs more to the futuristic, R&B-inspired club of London’s underventilated venues than to any particular strain from Montreal.…