Woebot
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OK everyone knows Malcom McLaren described Planet Rock as a form of folk music, but why are Matmos, The Lickets, The Focus Group, The Animal Collective (new Vashti Bunyan Record coming out!) drawing on Folk music?
The argument that it's just hipster sequencing (ie whats the NEXT big thing?) seems a bit frail, I mean, isn't the leap to folk kinda surreal?
I have been nurturing a pet theory that it's due to the breakdown in communications between Electronica and the dwindling bastardised street avantgardisms of dance music that has caused this "necrophiliac" shift. The Shakleton Mordant 7" must be about the only record trying to create a "radical" bohemian Grime, but remember how many bohemian variants of Techno and Drum and Bass there once were!
It seems like a wilfully and strategically introspective move. Referencing Folk Music seems like a declaration of awareness of the death of dance music, signals an investment in what i'd (unimaginatively) call "Post-Rave Electronica".
The argument that it's just hipster sequencing (ie whats the NEXT big thing?) seems a bit frail, I mean, isn't the leap to folk kinda surreal?
I have been nurturing a pet theory that it's due to the breakdown in communications between Electronica and the dwindling bastardised street avantgardisms of dance music that has caused this "necrophiliac" shift. The Shakleton Mordant 7" must be about the only record trying to create a "radical" bohemian Grime, but remember how many bohemian variants of Techno and Drum and Bass there once were!
It seems like a wilfully and strategically introspective move. Referencing Folk Music seems like a declaration of awareness of the death of dance music, signals an investment in what i'd (unimaginatively) call "Post-Rave Electronica".