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Hipsters and Music Journalists are evil twins. Both are usually non-musicians (or lapsed ones). Both declare what's "cool" to the non-knowing proles, often in a condescending way. Both are always on the hunt for the "relevant", the "next big thing" without actually creating it by themselves...

If you define "good music" as music that goes beyond music as mere entertainment, then the thread-title-statement is correct in many occasions. There are similarities between devoted believers (of any religion) and devoted fans of certain genres (and/or bands, musicians). There is also this...

The 2010s, especially the second half, are the decade when swarm intelligence turned into swarm idiocy full throttle.

I have written it here already a couple of times, and it'S worth repeating: The audiences for live music as well as DJs (as in clubs and parties) are rapidly declining and ageing at the same time. A viscious cirlce. Not a very motivating factor if you're young to start DJing or let alone a band...

Lemon D .... unsung Hero

Sampling Sting/The Police and let a fake-soul diva sing the accompanying melody to it is the expression of this. Puffy's soul is unredeemable.

Re: "Underground" Regarding "Underground" - which has got a lot to do with Ethics, with not "Selling out", with not compromising your sound, Underground means sticking together, doing it on your own terms being "hardcore" "keepin it real" was also part of this, and so was experiencing music...

...Of course, the original first wave of electro was heavily accompanied by Breakdance. Seems to be totally forgotten today, Breakdance that is...

What is Electro, ey? IF you do some pop-music archeology via (very few) surviving mixtapes from around 83, 84 and/or carefully scanning music mags from that era for mailorder lists of (dance) record stores or DJ Top Tens you discover Electro was a big part of what DJs would play back then...

Melancholy is one of the distinct features of middle class/bourgeois/middle-of-the-road mindset.

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I love those years 1986-1988, when stuff like the above was referred to as "house", and the tempo most certainly is, but it feels totally like "techno" to me.

In the mid80s the lines get blurry - early House or "Electro-Soul" (see thread-title)?

Of course a lot of it is about pranking. And those "autonomous" cars + especially trucks are an invitation for (organised) crime, too. And then there are insurance-issues, and terrorists etc. It's astonishing to me to listen to the naive "tech-jingoism" of the Silicon Valley moguls when they...

There is a trend within pretty much any OECD country though (going on for 20, 30 years) of the highest 5% icome the tax rates have been lowered, whereas the tax rates for "middle class" income has hardly ever been reduced. Resulting in the richest 5% getting richer faster in relative and...

I actually never thought Queen were that horrible, but the above one was very untypical for their otherwise rather "middle on the road" apporach of rock.

Cars are the last frontier for the Silicon Valley Overlords Apparently the car-industry is the next big target of the "benevolent" dictators of Silicon Valley. After they control so many aspects of modern life, they are on their way to monopolize individual transportation, too. The "autonoumous...

Smartphones and social media killed any revolutionary intent. Those two things are now clearly agents of the reactionary forces.