how long before the post dubstep, "forward thinking", quietus/factmag favourites come a long and get all the plaudits u boys reckon
The last thing a night like frequency needs is a bunch of ppl like me turning up tbh lol
Got no concerns with the scene/sound being misinterpreted/jumped upon through DJs like Brackles or Pinch playing with and interacting with these sounds, think it's totally healthy given their backgrounds, but I am waiting for Urban Nerds to stake their claim in discovering the scene and trying to make Radford a resident or whatever. Or Johhny Banger throwing an ironic Shuffling party. Anything like that can fuck off
Nah its more that
Has anyone ever written anything remotely academic (or not even academic) about urban/black/street culture being repackaged/reappropriated and sold back as a safer/diluted experience to be consumed by middle-class urban migrants? To give an obvious example the Red Bull stages at carnival are the most blatant vehicles of this process
Has anyone ever written anything remotely academic (or not even academic) about urban/black/street culture being repackaged/reappropriated and sold back as a safer/diluted experience to be consumed by middle-class urban migrants? To give an obvious example the Red Bull stages at carnival are the most blatant vehicles of this process
cpl of dismissive comments in the facebook news story for that article brah. why i can't see the fact mag bunch/post dubstep crowd whatever the fuck latching on to deeptech to take the plaudits as you suggest. lot of people been against this scene from the start; shit dancing, derivative house music, raves too 'chavvy' now...haha
It's even more difficult to simultaneously compare the real and the false reality as there is this constraint whereby the music has to first be mythologised in some way (as 'Old Skool Garage' & Grime have been) so that it gains an element of cultural capital that allows it to be consumed by the students, the creatives, the gentrifiers, and normally by the time the sound becomes fully mythologised within the industry, the real scene has died or dissappeared (look at Jungle, UK Garage, Grime & Funky - this process is obvious in all of them). In a way that's what's so beautiful about the Deep Tech scene - it's seen from the outside as just shit House music being shuffled to by the chavs, who obviously have no idea of the superiority of the 'intelligent' global House scene - so, so far, it has avoided the mythologising (I am aware that this thread is the first stage in such a process of a mythology and I have thought whether any articles published by any of us would provide the basis for the go-ahead of it's 'discovery' and subsequent reappropriation by the Fact/Post-Dubstep/UK Bass crowd who then lead and develop the gentrification process of the sound).