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26Jan2005 Filed under: GlowsticksYet another article about the death of dance music: The Turn Away From the Turntable. This one’s by Simon Reynolds, author of Generation Ecstasy.
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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leblanc
January 26th, 2005 at 3:04 pm
good article. what’s interesting is that here in SF we’re seeing the re-emergence of a lot of events thought to be extinct - several of the monthly DnB/Breaks events that stopped happening in 2002-2003 are back, and many people i know are digging into the electronic scene way more than they used to. true - clubs here like 1015 Folsom, which was THE BIG THING in like 1998-99 is always half empty now that gratiutious E consumption has declined (and clubs got smart about it), but other smaller clubs are FULL every fri/sat night.
depends on how you look at it, i guess. i’m still loving it
OhOne
February 8th, 2005 at 1:18 am
Regarding the article:
You know, it may also be that electronic-music listeners simply have a different perspective on their favorite genres than do rock-music folks: If we go away for a while, our favorite genres and tracks will still be there when we once more become interested. The recordings (which comprise more of our experience of the music than do albums of largely-performative stuff like rock) will still be available years from now. So far, it’s also true that new tracks keep coming out in the established genres, either by die-hard producers still banging out similar stuff or new musicians (sometimes old fans) trying their hands. Electronic music is like Twinkies… Oh, fuck it- I’m too tired to finish this metaphor.
Suffice to say, this stuff never seems to die. Perhaps it’s life-cycle will be similar to the “perennial hip-hop” by which Reynolds brushes without offering comparison. As for the listeners- well, digital media will certainly make our collection-retention a lot more common than when our parents abandoned all their old Pink Floyd LPs for the hot new Yanni cuts on CD.
On a resonant note: in reading this article, I noticed that while I’ve been hiding my own head in the rock-and-roll sand after fleeing electronic dance culture, this “schaffel” phenomenon seems to have passed me by. I’ll be looking that stuff up.
PS- I do actually hope that psytrance becomes extinct, and would gladly see all of the above statement proven bullshit to never hear that bad-acid-bullshit played ever again.