Have a nice week everyone!
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Banger!
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Never entirely sure if this channel is a spoof but his ability to intellectualise over niche genres Iâve never heard of is astounding
*ps whatever happened to vaporwave?
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Loving his extremely earnest analysis, thanks for the link.
Re Vapourwave; check Hiraeth Records for endless releases including the gorgeous https://youtu.be/66VNx4ZCIkk?feature=shared
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Itâs still going ⌠I have a few vaporwave LPs including the one posted above and they are lovely if you like ambient music.
You are allowed to admit that you know about young peopleâs music, you donât need to pretend you think it is all made up. Nobody here will judge you.
Thereâs some interesting stuff in here, the Silver Apples one, and the African Psych one are definitely going to be on my âto watchâ list.
Thanks for the tip!
By that I meant some of the genres seemed so peculiar and outlandish that it almost felt as though heâd made them up. Heâs certainly very articulate and reminds me a bit of Simon Reynolds, although I think thereâs a tendency to find (and therefore analyse) scenes where perhaps they didnât exist eg when producers coincided with similar sounds?
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Oooh, which ones specifically? I havenât got all the way through this yet, but i do remember a lot of those tumblr microgenres from the late 00s and 10s.
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Iâd certainly never heard of eggpunk or cloud rap - more a reflection of my ignorance, it now seems lol
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cloud rap was huge - almost up there with vaporwave. itâs all based on hipster media terms, but like all genres, it has some great music amongst the dreck. Clams Casino is an often cited example of cloud rap.
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in other news, how gorgeous is this?!
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I remember some half-hearted debate about chillwave and Washed Out on DJH and it half-polarised opinion between those who half-liked it and those who half-noticed it.
I was djing at some indie nights around then, and i would use a lot of the stuff that was termed as âChillwaveâ in my warmup, and i even made a few mixes of it that were pretty popular with some of the kids who were coming down to that night.
Fun genre, and you can see the lasting effect it had on music since then.
It does seem like that time (09/10) was a bit of a turning point in music, and a lot of the people who came up more with music that had roots in the previous decades, simply werenât willing to take the step into the new era.
(Thatâs just my personal opinion on it)
A lot of those people did have their tongue firmly in their cheek about music scenes and genres anyway.
In the same way that the 100 Gecs fans hold up microwaves and desktop computers at their gigs as a sort of injoke about older music fans complaining about kids always holding phones up at every gig. Not the most difficult joke to unravel, but would still look a bit odd to someone who wasnât in on it.
I might be wrong, but wasnât the term chillwave invented by CRLS from hipster runoff, which in itself was a sort of parody of hipster culture?
Thereâs a good breakdown of the different eras of that hipster culture here, i donât think it is going to be free to watch for much longer though.
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interesting point. a natural generational shift? or did music take a particular turn that alienated the old guard? it felt to me like a crop of younger art kids were making âcolderâ music which was making its way on to blogs, which seemed at odds with the future disco and German house resurgence which still dominated the parties I was going to, but again I could be wildly off. I do remember going to an allez allez night at the amersham arms in new cross and feeling off the pulse.
I reckon the messageboards like 4chanâs /mu board and even redditâs various music boards started having more of an impact than some of the blogs around this point. But you probably shouldnât count out those huge blogs like gorilla vs bear, and even Pitchfork in this era (who were still pretty huge in terms of influence i reckon)
I honestly missed so much of these emerging âgenresâ at the time, i remember dismissing Nitecore as âdumb brony musicâ at the time, but then it seems to have been quite a huge influence on a lot of the music that younger people would consider pivotal.
Maybe one of the problems of getting older, whilst still going out to clubs to dance to dance music/go to gigs etc⌠Is that itâs primarily a way that young people find themselves, and their tribes. If i was rocking up to see some of these bands and acts that were being listened to by 16-19 year olds, i would feel quite out of place amongst them.
A good example of this was that i was asked by a grime mc to dj for him for a support gig he was doing, and it turned out that this gig was for the UK drill act 67. The backstage was absolutely packed with teenagers, some looked like gangsters, some looked like models in stabproof vests (which i think was in fashion then) i was the oldest person there by at least ten years, maybe more.
When we went out to do the performance the venue was packed to the gunnels with teenagers, all going crazy. At the very back of the room you could see about ten individual, probably 30s/40s year old men, in very 00s looking fashion, drinking pints. They werenât with anyone, theyâd come down to check out the scene i guess.
Perhaps, who truly knows how it all works? Hereâs anthony fantano trying to review 100 Gecs 4 years ago.
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I donât know if any of you follow this whole âLostwaveâ thing, but the short version is that people post up clips of audio they have found on a tape, or wherever, and then people online become obsessed with finding out who the artist is. The music is often quite similar sounding new wavey electropop for some reason, maybe just because this era would have been recorded from the radio onto an unlabeled cassette tape and the audio properties of tape give it is apleasingly distorted sound. Who knows?
Anyway, some guy posted a 15 second clip of this song years ago and set everyone off looking for it. When asked where it was from the original poster said he wasnât sure and it was likely from him testing some recording equipment he had. It turned out the clip was 15 seconds long because it was from a porn movie, and that was the only clip where there wasnât moaning.
Anyway, someone cracked it and found the artist a day or so ago.
Samantha Morton is just so absurdly talented.
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#coolruler
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Great history lesson in the roots of house by FK. You know it but itâs so well explained that you still learn.
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