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Dissensus circa 1920: “Fewer people than ever are riding horses around says the newspaper. That settles it then, travel is OVER as a practice! Everybody is staying at home just like me!” Again, formats are just shifting. Live nation is putting up massive revenue numbers. Ticket prices and...

Music is still about the same. Recorded music has long served a soundtrack for other activities: driving, partying, excercising, working, restaurants, stores etc. But it shared some of those roles with talk radio. Podcasts are only really replacing talk radio, and are being listened to in the...

Techno’s “kaytranada boiler room”. Somehow this broke containment and got in the normie algorithm… had a co-worker show it to me and ask “is this what you’re into?”

This guy got the juice.. I’m not a big fan but he’s selling out these shows in literally 8 minutes

DVS1 is great.. saw him a few months back and really enjoyed it, but he’s kind of like a J Dilla type figure. And he keeps giving poorly received interviews where he shakes his fist at the young kids and complains that the djs outselling him 10 to 1 “aren’t real techno”. I’m sorry but that...

Berlin’s still technically the capital, but definitely no longer has the juice in techno. It doesn’t help that Germany is going to shit in general. Unmistakable “after the gold rush” vibes when I was there last year If you’re gonna pick a place now it’s gotta be Amsterdam/Netherlands with...

Idk maybe it’s just the UK that’s kind of dead now? Based on what I’ve seen travelling and partying in the last 3 years, you can add South America and most of continental Europe to the list of places where electronic music has been on an absolute tear for the last 3 years. Clubs may be...

By ketamine and pretentious I assume you’re referring to minimal techno? That scene pretty much died out over 10 years ago at this point, and is generally regarded as the all-time nadir of techno. Some newer stuff I would go see would be something like 999999999 who played Knockdown Center in...

Same for a lot of North American cities.. Around 2010 it was small crappy blog music nights on the smaller scale, or big EDM fests with not much in between. Electronic music had been building up since the house/tech-house revival in the 2010s and then just went insane post-pandemic, mainly...

Well there is the story of Messiah and the end of Konflict. Accounts vary, but supposedly there was a dispute over the ownership of the tune between Kemal from Konflict and Clayton from the Renegade Hardware label, which set off a race to get the DAT tape from Music House. Kemal got to the...

I’ve been revisiting some stuff from this era (roughly bookended by To Shape the Future Remix and Messiah) and I’m surprised at how well a lot of it has aged. Resonates in some way with the current hard techno craze

hey elgato.. I'm the other law student HMLT is referring to. You're wasting your time even attempting to reason with him about international law. btw it's nice to see a legal positivist around here. I'm of the HLA Hart/Joseph Raz vein myself. I've been reading a lot of Hans Kelsen lately...

yes, and the whole point of what I wrote is that you need barely any money to make money in a depression. just some balls and a lack of dependants, hence the ragged trousered capitalist's dream. but since you're not a capitalist I guess that doesn't appeal to you. maybe, but it wouldnt have...