jon woscencroft or colin newman from touch once said something like he did not see any point in expressing angst through music. i never forgot this statement as it struck me as interesting while I atleast partially disagree...
I still respond to angry music... the south has some of the most nihilistic hiphop i've ever heard, and that's what initially drew me to the sound. and i am absolutely the only one in my circle of friends who is open to black and otherwise metal (even if the genre is 98 % garbage). "in the flat field", "helter skelter", etc, remain some of my favorite songs... and back in the jungle days my favorite was absolutely the Panacea camp of dark-as-fuck-destroy-everything drum'n'bass.
was wondering what people here think of the subject, from musical as well as political, philosophical or cultural anthropological points of view... particularly the angst-ridden end of nihilism (as opposed to the kind that revels in earthly pleasures, but ofcourse feel free to ruminate on that as well)
is it still, or was it ever, valid to express anger through music? is discontent so commodified these days that angst is entirely cliche and powerless? what about the "scream becomes a whisper" thing of dark ambient? can doom-metal actually be transcendent? can angry music be liberating or is it only a dead-end?
I still respond to angry music... the south has some of the most nihilistic hiphop i've ever heard, and that's what initially drew me to the sound. and i am absolutely the only one in my circle of friends who is open to black and otherwise metal (even if the genre is 98 % garbage). "in the flat field", "helter skelter", etc, remain some of my favorite songs... and back in the jungle days my favorite was absolutely the Panacea camp of dark-as-fuck-destroy-everything drum'n'bass.
was wondering what people here think of the subject, from musical as well as political, philosophical or cultural anthropological points of view... particularly the angst-ridden end of nihilism (as opposed to the kind that revels in earthly pleasures, but ofcourse feel free to ruminate on that as well)
is it still, or was it ever, valid to express anger through music? is discontent so commodified these days that angst is entirely cliche and powerless? what about the "scream becomes a whisper" thing of dark ambient? can doom-metal actually be transcendent? can angry music be liberating or is it only a dead-end?
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