May 2010
1 post
Dubstep's a slave 4 U
Perez Hilton recently noted Britney will collaborate with Yorkshire dubstep producer Rusko.
It took ten years for the latest underground music to go mainstream in the US. Boy was that slow to catch on. The wobbly bass music once born as dubstep became an aesthetic parody several years ago. With its subsequent, sluggish normalization, it’s now finally ripe for US corporatization....
March 2010
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parallel universe →
January 2010
2 posts
Kottke on Avatar. →
Downloading and uploading hopes and dreams.
the club and headspace networked
It’s safe to say at this point that house and techno music have taken a neoclassical turn. With mnml techno falling out of favor, house and techno are squarely in an era of reckoning with the canon. With the shift came the questions of provenance and aesthetics. Familiar arguments for authenticity drawn along geographies resurfaced (e.g. Detroit or Europe). 2008/2009 saw a revival in...
December 2009
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