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Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Keep thinking about starting a thread about Fred Again and Four Tet et al

And then I remembered this thread

And this is what that music is, right? Very inoffensive, quite pleasant, sentimental, the dance music equivalent of Coldplay





Not totally dismissing this music, btw, I am quite fascinated by how popular it is and how (although it may be a big marketing swiz) it connects with the masses emotionally in a way that Autechre would laugh at and spit on
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Kind of interesting that I presume this represents a sort of pendulum shift from Scrillex and all that stuff in the US

A reflexive blandening
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
He's got quite a lot of plastic people-y cred hasn't he so I'd expect his music to be more interesting... But I've literally listened to about four songs.
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
Corpsey said:
Not totally dismissing this music, btw, I am quite fascinated by how popular it is and how (although it may be a big marketing swiz) it connects with the masses emotionally in a way that Autechre would laugh at and spit on
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I doubt they would even care tbh. they are grown ups raised on black music, unlike the recalcitrant teenage idiot energy punks music journalists where poptimism is just an inversion of their rockism.

and why should they care? They already experienced this in the early 90s with prog house.

Rob Brown (Autechre): The progressive house scene at the time was depressingly boring. Just loads of lame references to otherwise good work. Just stick on a four-four and get some cheesy organ on it because that’ll move bums in clubs – it wasn’t really our take on the scene at all. When people just defaulted to that it was rotting the entire scene as far as I was concerned. We were exploring all kinds of bands, like Eno, Can and Coil, that were totally off the radar of the general club scene. They weren’t anything to do with club music. It just seemed that club music was getting a bit burned out and at a bit of a dead end. Our style seemed to have infinite possibilities.
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Rob Brown: My take was that intelligence meant just being free thinking and open minded, and artificial was, yeah, it’s techno music. It’s electronic sounds. And I’d go with that. I think the idea of intelligence was maybe just unfortunate. They just thought it’d be a catchy buzzword that wouldn’t get misunderstood culturally – like oh, it’s not dance music and stupid people dance, so this is for clever people. A lot of flag waving could come out from that but dance music has always been like that. Is it fluffy bra piano house or is it New York garage? People always have these quantifiable critiques where you have to look at what the latest thing not to be into at the time is. I think that was going on all over the place and this was just another example of that. But in America, a lot of people became really tribal about it.
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wektor

wektor

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older tech house is relatively good and interesting now compared to the new school "deep tech" hard house shit
 
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