blissblogger
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here's an interesting piece by Chal Ravens, following her proclamation of "this is the Future" about that Afrocentric techno mix by Shannen S-P
https://djmag.com/longreads/uk-club-music-evolving-how
it's about a sound that has emerged in recent years on the UK scene that people just call "club", based in a transnational eclecticism unified by a certain vibe (percussive, jolting, lots of flashy deejay tricks) and by its relative lack of relationship to either the sound system / nuum tradition or to 4/4 house / techno (it'll use elements from both here and there, but the vibe and the groove is quite different in feel - drawing more on gqom, Jersey club, etc )
the major points:
"sideways not forwards" is the axis on which this music moves i.e. it doesn't have a romance of the future, it has a romance of the exotic and far-flung.
mediated largely through the internet, netlabels, etc
"It’s music to stay on top of rather than music to get lost in" (a very sharp description of how the jolting beats put you on edge, you don't trance out)
but unlike it's precursor, deconstructed club, it's very much banging, hedonistic, celebratory, exuberant
Manchester is the centre for this scene/sound, not London
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she makes it sound exciting
and I enjoyed this line about a new generation of UK producers who are more in tune with a virtual community of SoundCloud bedroom producers "than the fusty-seeming legacy of the hardcore continuum"
i suppose if there's a philosophical wrinkle in the project, it's the fact that the style is dependent on the kind of regional sounds that the UK itself is not able to generate anymore - all those African or US-city based genres that it draws from
https://djmag.com/longreads/uk-club-music-evolving-how
it's about a sound that has emerged in recent years on the UK scene that people just call "club", based in a transnational eclecticism unified by a certain vibe (percussive, jolting, lots of flashy deejay tricks) and by its relative lack of relationship to either the sound system / nuum tradition or to 4/4 house / techno (it'll use elements from both here and there, but the vibe and the groove is quite different in feel - drawing more on gqom, Jersey club, etc )
the major points:
"sideways not forwards" is the axis on which this music moves i.e. it doesn't have a romance of the future, it has a romance of the exotic and far-flung.
mediated largely through the internet, netlabels, etc
"It’s music to stay on top of rather than music to get lost in" (a very sharp description of how the jolting beats put you on edge, you don't trance out)
but unlike it's precursor, deconstructed club, it's very much banging, hedonistic, celebratory, exuberant
Manchester is the centre for this scene/sound, not London
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
she makes it sound exciting
and I enjoyed this line about a new generation of UK producers who are more in tune with a virtual community of SoundCloud bedroom producers "than the fusty-seeming legacy of the hardcore continuum"
i suppose if there's a philosophical wrinkle in the project, it's the fact that the style is dependent on the kind of regional sounds that the UK itself is not able to generate anymore - all those African or US-city based genres that it draws from
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