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I think you can also trace the style to before the Storage Jam, as early in the tour as the very end of the Bethel Waves, and through the IX Simple. I'd bet there are some more examples tucked away throughout Leg I.
I'm extremely psyched to hear that sound re-emerge in the Gorge RnR and hope it does become another weapon in their arsenal of sonic awesomeness.
So now, in less than 3 years since the breakup, we potentially have the evolution of 2 new styles or flavors of Phish - the stacattto and this heavy ambient electronic/industrial whatever.
There might be criticism of them goofing around playing "signs" and dropping new covers here and there, but its getting increasingly harder to argue that they are not creatively inspired.