wektor

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Apparently zoomers who are yet to discover Orange Milk Records have re-invented electro-acoustic music for themselves.
It's all about spectral transforms now. Arguably no one cared this much about rapid fire morphologies up to this point, outside of the hard acid/speedcore continuum perhaps.



What is curious, is this type of stuff has been around for a while now, even with similar friends persistingly creating in this synthesised but organic aesthetic, though it's been mostly netlabel stuff circa 2015. Later on, the style really connected in my head with the zoomers and the queer post-hippie tiktok aesthetic. Arguably very big here, in Paris, where I am visiting now, White Garden being one of the big labels/promoters.
 

wektor

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Porter Robinson, Japanese ambient classics, random lowercase computer music bandcamp lads, lines forum people, artisanal diy synth users, serum enthusiasts, hyperpop kids. All in there.
Cannot say I'm a fan, but this is quite a mixture if you're under 20, and that's not it's selling point, which is that there seems to crystallise a more specific aesthetic, which is not of the PAN Records post-post-post-genre type, but something way more monolithic.
 

wektor

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Also Ulla, whom I've heard a great Acousmonium performance of couple months ago, with exactly similar realisation – it's Ableton Live electro-acoustics with the <24 age group aesthetic. Itchy, shaky, but always somehow reminding of organic matter processes.
Perhaps this is where we have arrived since this discussion:
 
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