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RE: {blog} The Maturing Of Electronic Music
Oh yeah, I remember when the Flim thing happened!
I think the post was a need to exorcise what I’ve seen happen over the years. I’ve watched genres get killed off and creativity stifled as labels were stuck on things and rules put up. I’m just loving that, right now, anything goes.
More of a cautionary tale to not put yourself in a corner.
But yeah, hopefully the documentaries are fun later viewing and the mixes are interesting listening. It’s nowhere near exhaustive but there is only so much space!
Honestly, I think about that Film situation a lot. I've always been a bit younger in the Techno scene (well, not anymore as I'm in my 30s) but I still had a good sense of history about the music that I loved. I think a lot of it came from record digging in shops in my teens where I tried to buy as much used as I could used since it was cheaper and not coming of age in a time where everything new was accessible online. I grew up in the country where I had to learn about the culture through import magazines and books which gave me a sense of where the culture originated in. That whole Skrillex/Film thing really made me take a step back and see what direction the new scene was heading in and how disregarded the history of electronic music was. It was eye-opening. But you can't bring that up without sounding elitist and condescending to many of these kids. I personally don't even mind some EDM, I just want younger audiences to respect the people who developed the culture when attitudes weren't so open to this music.