"My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the music was new and had no rules" -LUNA C
Sunday, May 25, 2014
rave echoes, continued
the scritch of that synth tonality is totally "Apocalypse Never", tres tres Renegade Legion/Reign gloomcore circa 1997
but the smash-beats have a timbral penetration that is distinctively now!ist - high-def, definitely - unnaturally vivid -- too real to feel, almost
After an early flush of enthusiasm I stopped following the New Jersey Club / DJ Sliink stuff... wonder why it is now that it is getting the uptake by your nu-IDM types, the beat omnivores?
it is all IDM, isn't it?
but now the I in IDM stands for "Internet" - Internet Dance Music.
Atemporal, post-geographic...
It takes the form(s), the structural features of body-coercive, crowd-catalysing genres (SDM, stupid dance musics)....
But the Internet is a playspace for minds, not bodies...
So this a cerebral aura even when it seems frenzied or banging
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