Bold Predictions

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here’s your spot to make bold predictions for 2025. shoot for the moon - get it right and earn the admiration and respect from your peers.

  • chicago-style mook house comes back into fashion, and the price of old IHR and underground construction records skyrocket. dj irene and bad boy bill raise their DJ fees accordingly and refrost their tips in anticipation of a global tour
  • trump tariffs and brexit will raise the cost of manufacturing materials so high that the average price of a new LP will retail at $100
  • emergent new style “podcast house” will take over. 28 minute tracks consisting of 909 patterns and M1 chords with some monotonous faux-intelligent guy asserting dubious facts in the left channel and an answer guy in the right channel just saying “oh wow” and “yeah, people don’t realize that” over and over again
  • new boards of canada album
  • ruf dug goes full nu skool breaks revival
  • a full “stems” backlash, dj’s playing out of tune AI acapellas will be soundly booed
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Boards of Canada new album…

That’s high stakes you’re playing for there…

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I’m here for it though. Do we get out ouija boards to manifest this?

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I’m not sure I want it. They left it too late.

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Maybe a streaming backlash?

Surely there will come a point where musicians refuse to give away their music for free?

Maybe we’re not there yet though.

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2025 - the year of the Hip House revival. I’ve said it every year for the past 15 years, so it has to stick eventually.

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Please no

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I’m expecting a very heavy 2010/11 revival to happen soon, loads of ‘post-dubstep’ and ‘future garage’

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One day. It has to happen one day.

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I’ve been doing my part! ha

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same. every little bit helps :sweat_smile::muscle:t4::muscle:t4::muscle:t4:
hip house x UK funky sets

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That has been happening for the last 5 years already…

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Ahaha ffs shows how much I pay attention ey

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Its happening

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  • three sault albums this year if they don’t tour (and i don’t think they’ll tour)
  • more songs about cars, it’s been a while
  • streaming stratifies - no longer will you be able to pay a flat fee for everything, there will be priced tiers to everything from the hella basic to the deep cuts
  • festivals are great, but they end - too expensive and too much liability
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Freestyle makes a massive comeback

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Played this at our last party. It’s the one everybody is citing as the return but so far seems to be the only one!

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For now. I feel it. I too have been waiting years.

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2025, year of the westbam/low spirit revival.