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I was too ambiguous, and my thread title didn't do me any favours, but I was asking for newness, not lamenting the death of the future. I wasn't looking for a pity party. You're right—we've had that enough

To be clear, I wasn't suggesting that anyone was making that argument—I just wanted to point in the direction of the argument you just made, which I basically agree with—that this stuff is cultural. As for where I am: it's a cultural wasteland, and only getting worse. There is a "queer scene"...

Point taken, but doesn't this really depend on who you're playing it to? For someone keyed into funk, dub, and krautrock maybe it wouldn't be so insane. In 1930 if you'd seen Metropolis, read Red Harvest and Frankenstein, and maybe been paying attention to the european avant garde, you could...

I would think if anything there's a giant stash of amazing, weird fucking music being made in China, and we don't have access to it for obvious reasons

There was a moment in the early 2010s when all that Landian NRx stuff was genuinely interesting, for this very reason. It was truly countercultural—you couldn't talk about it with people in real life without them looking at you like you were crazy.

Perhaps a touchy subject, but I submit that there is nothing inherently (ie. genetically) innovative about being queer, or of colour. I have queer friends complaining there are no gay bars left in the city. Not because gay people are under attack, but because the destratifying forces of capital...

Barty does seem to know. So UK Drill has gotten dull. What's next?

All of this is a roundabout way of asking people who are younger than me to tell me what is currently interesting. But what kind of thread title would that be third?

No abuse here. I'm willing to accept that the future is not dead. I'm just wondering where it is, and why it is, because I don't really feel it anymore. Is rap really it? Rock has of course been dead for decades now. Electronic stuff seems preoccupied with "experimental club" and conceptronica...

Have we reached the end of the line? Musically or otherwise? Maybe I'm just old; I used to feel an energy in music, I used to feel like it was all happening so fast and I'd never be able to keep up. I remember in 2010 people were saying the nuum was done, the future was dead, retromania etc...

Unlike the bassoon, tuba, giant drums, etc., I don't think the banjo is about physical comedy at all. Strikes me as more about class/race/"hillbilly" stuff. Borderer-trashing, etc. And, as noted above, there's transcendent stuff like this (at 37:30)...

I agree. I can't be the only one who sees some relation between a personality type like Tony Starke and that of Donald Trump; both are extremely "wealthy," pushy, talkative, arrogant... Tony is supposed to be a genius, but in a fictional universe in which a ridiculous number of main characters...

It’s been over two years, and I still struggle to wrap my head around this. It’s odd—I’ve struggled with depression myself, and I understand that it produces in the mind thoughts that’s makes no sense, or that are attached to reality but in a sort of sinister and incomplete way. But I keep...

Is there any connection at all between the 'nuum and road rap/UK drill? Producer overlap? I've certainly noticed some aesthetic similarities (and judging from the thread here, I'm not the only one), but ultimately it seems like its own thing.

Trying to parse this; you're saying post-dubstep had no relation to the continuum except through influence? In contrast to what? Lots of the dubstep guys started making post-dubstep (then later turned into boring techno). Dubstep labels started putting out post-dubstep records. I wasn't...

It's not quite as badly written as has been implied in this thread—I would dock grades for hand-waving, weasel words, a lack of clear thesis, etc. The bigger issue is ideological; namely, we're two or three generations into an intellectual world in which being "smart" or "thoughtful" is...

The emergence of science fiction and fantasy as full-fledged literary genres in the mid-to-late-19th century lines up conveniently with the period during which a number of particularly keyed-in dudes began to ring the alarms regarding the death of God etc. It's worth noting that the way that...

In the 1870s, Japan decided to go all-in on the whole westernization thing. Apparently in a very, very short period of time, everyone was dressing in western clothes, listening to western music, putting up western-style buildings. But the thing is, very often these things were western-looking...

I think this may be getting misinterpreted (the FACT article kind of says what everyone seems to be thinking). We don't know anything about him really, so who knows, maybe this is a very personal subject for him. But it might just be his way of paying tribute to certain rave ideals... unity and...