the confusion comes about because some of the producers will use elements that refer to or originated with those brock out kinds of music, they tap into that history
idk man I think maybe rock is just further along in that recuperative process, hence more ossified, moribund, whateverat least in rave there is a hankering for the re-formed human community. in rock there is none of that.
we should work out what the values of post-dubstep were/are. what headspace did it want to live inside of. what body-feel. what sensations did it covet?
But the enthusiast of separations, seeking paths unhaunted by the hordes, withdraws to the extreme margin and follows the rim of the circle, which he cannot cross so long as he is subject to the body; yet Consciousness soars farther, quite pure in an ennui without beings or objects. No longer suffering, superior to the excuses which invite dying, Consciousness forgets the man who supports it. More unreal than a star glimpsed in some hallucination, it suggests the condition of a sidereal pirouette—while on life’s circumference the soul promenades, meeting only itself over and over again, itself and its impotence to answer the call of the Void.
EM Cioran: A Short History of Decay (1949), 1 Directions for Decomposition, Promenade around the Circumference
I was going to say - why is that overeducated types can't make bangers? (Assuming that's true.) Too brainy, not enough feely?
Is the idea then that music takes on a certain life affirming urgency when people are doing it to survive or escape, whereas the middle classes are too comfortable to really stretch themselves? In other words, a question of economic necessity rather than books?
Is the idea then that music takes on a certain life affirming urgency when people are doing it to survive or escape, whereas the middle classes are too comfortable to really stretch themselves? In other words, a question of economic necessity rather than books?
There's probably also a thing that if you're a middle class student who's into grime and funky and most of your peers are into indie or minimal techno or whatever, then at least subconsciously you feel like you need to justify yourself, which gives you a slight self-conscious drive to try to make things a bit clever and different rather than being comfortable playing it totally straight.