And this hippy-ism is where i tend to part ways with you my man. the problem is everything is dull because of racism. i literally spent 4 fucking days on twitter trying to explain shit to these cunts. they are a modulated culture. interchangeable consumers. they don't want anything else, just to keep a machine going because it keeps up the middle class lifestyle of their mates and families.
Actually im with you to a point and labelled this phenom musical gentrification a few years ago. White Middle classes en Masse getting in on a scene tends to be a red flag. They have more money so can basically take over and act like they own it. Even act as if they were the originators.
What I'm really talking about is that it doesn't matter who you are or where you are, it's very very hard not to sound derivative at this point in time.
Sure there are little beams of light poking through the noise here and there but they're getting rarer and rarer. Same goes for almost all media. Film maybe being the worst offender. I guess the essence of what I always seem to fail at putting across is that dance music had a finite amount of time to sound fresh to us. Theres the boom when all the gear comes out and then at some point becomes affordable to the street kids who had the spark to make the interesting shit which inevitably then gets taken over by other people who refine the sound, polish it up, sometimes break away, make new offshoots. But there comes a point where all possible avenues have been mined. And I think we might be at that point. The Internet sped this process up tenfold so that all the info on how to make all the amazing shit becomes available and then all you're left with is masses of over produced same sounding shit and revivalist bs.
Stalemate. In the new stuff thread, is any of that truly new? Man, between genesis p or ridge and his gangs, aphex and a handful of other randomly selected masters of their domain most of the shit that could be done ws done by them decades ago. It just got more hi def and refined as time went on.
I don't think color comes into it as much anymore. Even Africa, that seemingly endless fountain of freshness sounds way less forward moving to me now. And no, I don't have my finger on every pulse, but I feel like I do enough to be able to find anything out there that would truly ring an alarm as loud as grime did.
I just think humanity and technology have come to a point where we've moved so fast in such a short space of time that yeah maybe Luka's idea of a 5 year break or some other such full Taliban move is required to push out something genuinely new. And I do find it interesting that this happens at the same point where we're witnessing so much sociopolitical, environmental and spiritual depletion. Like so much is happening in the world that used to act as a spark for young people to get inspired. Usually when times are tough. These are the toughest times I've ever witnessed and the media landscape is at its weakest.
I dunno man. All feels a bit in sync.