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Lawrence

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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous

Sep 22, 2010, 18:44

Well I'm with singingringingtree on this. I definitely think Power Electronics/Noise or whatever it's called now is the real revolution as far as music goes. Today's avant-garde just doesn't have the same kick as it did maybe 50 yrs ago, maybe because of the advent of technology (use of computers, etc...) I don't think rock music (with few exceptions) is going to recover from two-decades-and-counting of mediocrity. Today's dance music is empty hipster-bait, where the packaging is more important than the music itself. I think Ian is right about free jazz, although what bothers me is there's no black people playing jazz anymore, which is ironic as they essentially created the music itself...

Power Electronics -- I think that genre still exists (that is, from the "Industrial" scene it came from that no longer really exists) mostly because it had a real message instead of being oblique and elliptical. It had things to say that most people don't want to hear, not that it matters that all of what those people say is the truth (of course). But it is an outlet for the frustrated misfits out there jaded with packaged culture being served to them like a McDonalds hamburger. And it brought all the 20th century classical musical theory to such people who otherwise would not have cared...

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