luka
Well-known member
There's a real flatness about this kind of music that reminds of HMGs theory about anti depressants cutting off the human soul from its highs and low and leaving it with a steady pulse in the middle regions
Kind of unnerving hollowness to it too
Do you mean in the sound of it? The digital inhuman glaze?
The sound and Stuff. Inhuman. Inorganic. Flat. Uncanny valley. Undead.
You know how some drugs seem to lock you into a inhuman frequency? So you're not flesh and blood anymore?
This kind of music is like watching adverts for the post human future and realising you're not going to be allowed to make the transition. Surplus to requirements. Cancelled stock.
I definitely think Barty is right in identifying this kind of music, the xanax zone, as the future that's here now, what he calls an inadvertent future in that it doesn't rely on sci fi trappings.
This is why it has the power to make people, me, genuinely uncomfortable in a way resident advisor endorsed landfill electronica never will.
Another way in which this future is disturbing, and this is crucial, is that it is about convergence and not resistance.
Look back at the beginning of the dematerialisation thread and you'll see how uncomfortable this makes people. This future is capitalist. It's not counter cultural. It's not an underground resistance. It's convergence. It's a folding in.
Kind of unnerving hollowness to it too
Do you mean in the sound of it? The digital inhuman glaze?
The sound and Stuff. Inhuman. Inorganic. Flat. Uncanny valley. Undead.
You know how some drugs seem to lock you into a inhuman frequency? So you're not flesh and blood anymore?
This kind of music is like watching adverts for the post human future and realising you're not going to be allowed to make the transition. Surplus to requirements. Cancelled stock.
I definitely think Barty is right in identifying this kind of music, the xanax zone, as the future that's here now, what he calls an inadvertent future in that it doesn't rely on sci fi trappings.
This is why it has the power to make people, me, genuinely uncomfortable in a way resident advisor endorsed landfill electronica never will.
Another way in which this future is disturbing, and this is crucial, is that it is about convergence and not resistance.
Look back at the beginning of the dematerialisation thread and you'll see how uncomfortable this makes people. This future is capitalist. It's not counter cultural. It's not an underground resistance. It's convergence. It's a folding in.