The Strange Devirtualization of Techno
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The Strange Devirtualization of Techno
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#2This seems to be a rant against "them TikTok kids" and "tehno appropriation and commercialization", yet I'm not really sure. What is author complaining about?
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#3This seems to be a rant against "them TikTok kids" and "tehno appropriation and commercialization", yet I'm not really sure. What is author complaining about?
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#4I really can't tell what this piece is trying to say.
> The earliest producers of this music dreamt of “arranging energy”, of being conduits for the anti-social/inhuman, to “combat the mediocre audio and visual programming being fed to the inhabitants of Earth”. Gone are all the elements with clever blocks of alien dissonance, driving paranoia or ecstatic release. None of the tracks is pulled forward by second order rhythms of swinging, high-octane percussion that make them groove.
This makes no sense to me. Techno is broader, deeper, and weirder than it's ever been. I think the author is just going to the wrong clubs and listening to the wrong producers.
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#5> As influencers and haute couture have firmly established in years prior, the Internet made it trivially easy to data-mine subcultures. By re-enacting their idiosyncrasies in shallow-yet-sufficient detail, they expand and reconfigure them, diluting their special meaning, washing away surrounding ecosystems.
For those who didn't or aren't going to read it, this is the point.
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#6The last few paragraphs sure are making some broad conclusions about the overall health of the entire world's rave scene based on going to one mediocre rave put on by a Brand. Especially given that he opens this loose collection of impressions by admitting that he came to the party dressed in his office gear, bring some fuckin' energy into the party if you're gonna bitch about how the kids are doing it wrong, dude.
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#7> As influencers and haute couture have firmly established in years prior, the Internet made it trivially easy to data-mine subcultures. By re-enacting their idiosyncrasies in shallow-yet-sufficient detail, they expand and reconfigure them, diluting their special meaning, washing away surrounding ecosystems. For those who didn't or aren't going to read it, this is the point.
I think this is broader than "the Internet". Parts of the fringe get absorbed into the mainstream. Capitalism is particularly good that this - look at companies monetizing social movements in various ways for the last 100 years.
I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing. I understand the feeling of having your niche diluted, but that's what happens whenever a niche is "good enough" to be influential. The mainstream isn't static, and would be worse for everyone if it were.
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#8Ah, the evergreen "Berlin was so cool before everyone else arrived" drivel. Told in context of a party organized by a company capitalizing on said cool, based on a party where you arrive "slightly before midnight (...) with pre-purchased tickets"... see me swing from big meh to lololol
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#9The last few paragraphs sure are making some broad conclusions about the overall health of the entire world's rave scene based on going to one mediocre rave put on by a Brand. Especially given that he opens this loose collection of impressions by admitting that he came to the party dressed in his office gear, bring some fuckin' energy into the party if you're gonna bitch about how the kids are doing it wrong, dude.
The sub title explains it fairly well
>Celebrating the Æsthetic Collapse of a Xoomer Subculture
He seems to be alluding to how the scene changed in the late 90s and does so throughout the article while giving a brief history of it all. The rave scene became the club scene and became a commodity which are things antithetical to what the rave scene was. The rave scene of gen-x is dead and what we have now is very different. I get a strong feeling he is trying to be the Hunter S. Thompson of rave with this piece and he does not quite pull it off.
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#10> As influencers and haute couture have firmly established in years prior, the Internet made it trivially easy to data-mine subcultures. By re-enacting their idiosyncrasies in shallow-yet-sufficient detail, they expand and reconfigure them, diluting their special meaning, washing away surrounding ecosystems. For those who didn't or aren't going to read it, this is the point.
> [...] the Internet made it trivially easy to data-mine subcultures [...] diluting their special meaning, [...]
It is a curious coincidence that the birth of the WWW (the part of the internet that enabled this) is temporally close to the collapse of the alternative system and thus the establishing of the "only viable alternative" (capitalism):
> This malaise, the feeling that there is nothing new, is itself nothing new of course. We find ourselves at the notorious ‘end of history’ trumpeted by Francis Fukuyama after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious.[1].
[1] Quoted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism p. 6.