Energy Flush

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2009/05/culture-technology-energy-rave

I was going to do an FT post on this but my day is filling up rapidly so I thought I'd throw it to the wolves here instead.

Comments

[rechabite.livejournal.com]

the sociopolitical perspective of this is quite fascinating and it's a pity mark didn't look into it further, i.e. in times of crisis people look back to reassuring music from whatever perspective so just as country is now resurgent in the us, from rascal flatts to carolina liars, so is early nineties rave - once the plateau of unapologetic futurism - coming back to cushion uncertain uk citizens with prodigy as entirely logical status quo equivalent plus blindingly obvious-but-dammit they work things like tiny dancer.

the sticking point viz. tech rupture is that it is still clearly capable of happening despite/because of slick 2009 streamlining as anyone who's listened to the halfway point of "bonkers" will know. also fergie's PEOPLE IN THE PLAYYYCE coming on like techno-etna in the midst of boom boom pow (revenge for b/board stopping planet rock at #49 back in '82 despite selling 2m?) is up there with davey payne on rhythm stick, no really!

but like anything (and to get all constant lambert abt it) the best music tends to be about discovering new perspectives on the existing rather than forming new languages per se (since not everyone is stockhausen or bailey but wow what a consolidatory slipstream!) and at the moment pop/dubstep/hip hop/etc. seems to be doing that just fine.

[cis.livejournal.com]

"in times of crisis people look back to reassuring music from whatever perspective so just as country is now resurgent in the us, from rascal flatts to carolina liars, so is early nineties rave - once the plateau of unapologetic futurism - coming back to cushion uncertain uk citizens with prodigy as entirely logical status quo equivalent plus blindingly obvious-but-dammit they work things like tiny dancer."

I can't tell if this is a joke or not. :(