[HN Gopher] The Strange Devirtualization of Techno
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The Strange Devirtualization of Techno
Author : haywirez
Score : 16 points
Date : 2023-05-08 20:22 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dist-epoch wrote:
| This 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?
| [deleted]
| caseyohara wrote:
| I 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.
| sublinear wrote:
| > 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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