resurgence of idm

Bleepity FLORNK!

The reason electronic music was better in the 1990s is because we as a society were experiencing a rush of technological innovations like we've never experienced before in history, and the genuine emotion behind much of the best electronic music released 1990-1996 reflected an widely-held unrestrained optimism for what "might lie in store" for the future. The Internet was slowly gaining ground into our daily lives, 3D graphics caught the public imagination, and no week went by without Hubble returning something fantastic. For a long time the silver, silicon city on the glass-domed hill seemed like it was just beyond the horizon, ever slightly out of our reach but always coming closer.

Then the dot-com bust happened, the Internet turned out to be "just kinda okay" and nothing special, we never saw any of the cool predictions happen, and that pivotal year of 2001 was marked by a terrorist act that jaded an entire generation instead of being the year of hyperfuturism that people had hoped it would be for the last 50 years... and then the general state of electronic music followed and reflected those moods again, as well as the people who produced it, lapsing into apathy, disillusionment and half-assedness.

Am I the only one who sees the connection here?

  my usernames always really suck said:

Am I the only one who sees the connection here?

no, theres a shit-ton of us. i figured out BLOC weekend was so cool, 5000 of us could BUY fucking butlins.  and live there for the rest of our lives.

we would get so busted tho.

it was better cos the technology was new and people were finding new ways to advance shit every year. things tend to be more exciting/creative when no one has done it before. i definetly dont think the relevance of electronic music was affected because of terrorists anyway : D . it was just past its sell by date but when the inevitable 90s revival gets started in a few years itll probably become hip again and then everyone can moan about how they were into it the first time round

  Shit Attack said:

it was better cos the technology was new and people were finding new ways to advance shit every year. things tend to be more exciting/creative when no one has done it before. i definetly dont think the relevance of electronic music was affected because of terrorists anyway : D . it was just past its sell by date but when the inevitable 90s revival gets started in a few years itll probably become hip again and then everyone can moan about how they were into it the first time round

oh come on, everything is fucked up by people who scare/hurt other people. life 101 surely?

It's more about the year 2001 was long thought to be a year where technology, science, and humanity in general would have been advanced beyond the dark ages and the shittiness of the 20th century.

Then comes along DURKA DURKA DURKA LOL RELIGIOUS FAGGOTRY IS HERE TO STAY XD XD

  my usernames always really suck said:

Then comes along DURKA DURKA DURKA LOL RELIGIOUS FAGGOTRY IS HERE TO STAY XD XD

amen.

break. 

  ET said:

these "IDM" arguments will perpetuate forever until everyone realizes it doesnt even exist

i dont think peoples musical tastes are affected by terrorism/world events no. i think its more a reaction against whatever was popular a year or 2 before and in the late 90s electronic music was huge, most of it was corny "9 pm til i come" type shit but it still was all seen as all being dance music and idm got included in that (wasnt even called idm at this point). the less people who are into the mainstream version of something the less will be adventurous enough to listen to the more underground type shit and it was definetly in the very late 90s that warp type shit started to become pretty well known . from what i remember of 2001 the whole thing even before the terrorists struck was about these indie garage rock groups like the strokes and all that shit and electronic music was already becoming less popular on the whole . i dont think the music scene would of changed much if that terrorist shit hadnt happened personaly and i cant see how something like that would affect someones taste in music . it definetly didnt affect mine anyway. i could maybe see how it might affect what the media is pushing as being the "cool" thing of the moment you need to buy in order to be hip but i definetly remember they were already going on about this garage rock shit way before that. its an impossible thing to prove tho of course but maybe if i fire up my delorean i can come back with proof . also the only mention i know of the year 2001 being some significant number is in that kubrick movie . if people thought they were going to be free of "religious faggotry" or whatever by that point they probably needed a good kick in the balls !

  ET said:

these "IDM" arguments will perpetuate forever until everyone realizes it doesnt even exist

what if we're brains in a vat matrix? omg

  my usernames always really suck said:

Then comes along DURKA DURKA DURKA LOL RELIGIOUS FAGGOTRY IS HERE TO STAY XD XD

nice Dubya impersonation

  lumpenprol said:

  my usernames always really suck said:

Then comes along DURKA DURKA DURKA LOL RELIGIOUS FAGGOTRY IS HERE TO STAY XD XD

 

nice Dubya impersonation

ROFL EPIC POST XD XD XD

my gut feeling is that there will be no resurgences or big musical movements until musicians can figure out a better way of getting paid for their work.

no, but I hope team doyobi's label actually get's going soon.

  Hanratty said:

my gut feeling is that there will be no resurgences or big musical movements until musicians can figure out a better way of getting paid for their work.

actually from here on out there are probably going to be two different classes of musicians/artists and 'the music industry'

1) non-profit music producers who release and create music on the web for free because they enjoy it and want to share it. for the majority of types of music there is virtually no profitability so there's no point in not taking advantage of technology and letting your music be heard to a large audience. this can also be donation-ware

and

2) commercial for-profit mainstream 'entertainers' - musicians who need to sell out large scale concerts and release recorded music for free as a way to promote live concerts. once you reach this level everything you do revolves around money to get the most people to listen to you and whatever.

this is the way things are heading and has basically already happened

trying to do something around in the middle is basically impossible. creating a living and surviving on music is impossible. this is the future we are living in

in the future all musicians will be this guy:

and music will be illegal

do you know what? i fucking hate music.

if music was illegal... i just don't know... it's a healthy addiction for sure

or maybe you all need to get over aphex twin and autechre and come to realize that they just make great music, and that there's loads of other great music out there as well.. and there's loads of great music being released all the time... and maybe it may not be IDM or drill or breakcore or whateverthefuck, but it's good nonetheless and music is to be enjoyed, not clamoured over in elitist circlejerk while harking back to the "good ole' days" when music USED to be interesting because the rest of the world moved on and did something a little different.

but then again i'm not too terribly picky about music

and i actually enjoyed campfire headphase even though boards took a 180*

i'd rather listen to casino versus japan than aphex most of the time

the title of the thread made me giggle. But dont worry guys, IDM isnt dead... its just sleeping. Just like Jazz Rap.

today i listened to come to daddy and rdj album and feed me weird things. it made me feel warm and fuzzy inside

Fuck the classification of music. When all is deconstructed, it becomes irrelevant.

i just want music that gives me that desperate/frantic/rushing/ecstatic/rollercoaster feeling deep inside that stuff like Vordhosbn does...

  Glass Plate said:

no, but I hope team doyobi's label actually get's going soon.

Is that what "Sixty Four" is coming out on?

Skam is dead!?

Figured it was with all of the Skam non-activity going on within the last 4 years...

*extreme sad*

*happy for Team Doyobi*

*they are the genius*