“It’s
extreme music which is kind of entertaining but it doesn’t tell you a
story. It’s a mood, and to be rude it’s a zombie mood. Things like
Skrillex are the remnants of the old music carrying on in a kind of
zombie-like exaggerated way. It’s stuck, it’s not going anywhere.”
Rather like my point about the "arrested futurism" / "frozen future" of Black Eyed Peas/ Flo Rida / Taio Cruz / et al in the conclusion to Retromania
"the
state-of-the-(ch)art is an omnipop that pulls every trick in the book of
Eighties and Nineties club music, meshing together elements from R&B,
electro, house, "Euro", and
trance to create a high-fructose sound of brash, blaring excitement. This super-compressed,
MP3-ready, almost pre-degraded sound is engineered to cut through on iPods,
smartphones, and computer speakers. This is the way that pop history ends, not
with a whimper but a BANG BANG BANG BANG."
Or indeed rather like the NOW!-ism of EDM.
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