sadmanbarty
Well-known member
didn't want to step on your turf
footwork was poetically positioned in terms of it's place in dance music history. it's maybe the last genre to emerge before dance music died, so it's neatly cyclical that it comes from chicago. it's also the last genre to emerge from that generation (and that's reflected in a generation talking about it being the last music that they were excited by). it nods (inadvertently) to todd edwards and to jungle while still being routed in chicago. it's all very nice.
house music got this exciting, simultaneously new and retrospective send off that the hardcore continuum didn't get.
sampling, timbaland-indebted rhythms, people doing a funny dance like those breakdancers in covent garden in 1985, jungle's speed, hardcore's nuttiness, garage's vocal choppage.
the memories and sensibilities of a whole generation repackaged and rejuvenated.
on paper it was new. it was unprecedented. but it never felt properly like that. that's the power of a sound world; however novel or innovative you are it contains you within it. it couldn't be truly new because it was comforting, it pointed to the world we were leaving behind.
the last triumphant hoorah of children of the 80's and teenagers of the 90's.
it was a beautiful music. whatever they do to it now, however much they defile it, it really was stunningly beautiful for a couple of years.
juice wrld's pegged it too. morbid weekend.
don't know if it's drugs, but there does seem to be this transatlantic will to death.
not a fan, but this is gorgeous.