sadmanbarty
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breakcore and techstep are closer to bladerunner than ltj bukem or ambient photek.
breakdown what bladerunner is. what parts of it are breakstep and techstep? compare that to bukem.
-edit, i missed the above post
breakcore and techstep are closer to bladerunner than ltj bukem or ambient photek.
technologists have essentially spent the past decade developing apps that do things that your mom used to take care of: Alexa to turn off lights in a room, uber to call you a taxi, fresh direct to do food shopping, etc. an aspect of futurism seems based on the notion of scarcity of time, the push to develop all these "innovations" designed to save you time. maybe saving time becomes critical in an accelerated culture.
or maybe people are just inherently lazy. how much fucking time does it take to get off your ass and turn off a light?
technologists have essentially spent the past decade developing apps that do things that your mom used to take care of
close your eyes. imagine you've never seen the city before. does it sound glistening and shiney? does it fuck! it sounds more and more garbled. I'm not sure why an aural form of cognition has been reduced to the fantasies of pictorial artists. Like I said yesterday, internet 2.0 should have given us information overload in music, but apart from people like oneohtrix point never that sort of arty scene it hasn't been done. jungle and early grime did, of course. But rnb has been reduced to a narcotic torpor whilst migos is the age old trick of increasing the economic privilege of a small section of black people whilst still rendering them culturally and sociologically marginal to politically nonexistent. The story of white supremacy in black music even.
Hip hop may not like the cut of whitey's jib, but it sure loves its money.
The thing is futurism as a trope of popular consciousness was always a big fucking fake.
If futurism was really as how it was understood to be it would be ambient, chill out and the variants of eurodisco, not to mention Celine Dion.
Part of our critique of this traditional notion of futurism is half of the jungle we venerate was made with antique technology even then. akai s1000 in 1994? give me a break professionals were using pro tools.
very good. there's a big difference.
the future of the 90's was gritty. our one is smooth and shiny like a touchscreen.
this can be heard in the music.
But there was a smooth and glistening future in the 90s. we just rightly hate it.
very good. there's a big difference.
the future of the 90's was gritty. our one is smooth and shiny like a touchscreen.
this can be heard in the music.
Smoothness is certainly key - frictionlessness, weightlessness (Dematerialisation)