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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I suppose what I really meant is that '90s revival' would mean too many different things to too many different people tho.

I agree w/this, and would probably extend it to all sorts of other "revivals" - there are so many fragmented scenes and sub-scenes now that you'll inevitably find someone making music which takes its cues from some aspect of the 90s - whether consciously so or not. I mean...The-Dream's album is fairly explicitly an homage to R Kelly's 12 Play, in part, but no one's labelling it as part of a "90s revival". And there have been people taking their cues from the 90s...ever since it ended! Like, idk, TLC's 'I'm Good At Being Bad' being an obvious take on Janet's 'What About'. So if the 90s never went away - and neither did the 80s, or probably the 70s...then there can't be a revival.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

is that TLC track from '3D'? and re The-Dream/R Kelly connection - does that extend to the actual sound of the music itself (this would involve more guitar twangs and fat snare/claps instead of light synth hooks and 808 innit)? i will listen to Love vs Money tonight finally...

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

the TLC track is from Fanmail - whoops, which is actually FROM the 90s, oh well. The 90s were their own revival! The-Dream/R Kelly is more in the persona and lyrics, though a lot of The-Dream's melodies are kind of...rich and full-bodied in the same way as Kells'...