> Here's hoping that there's no big resurgence of Happy Hardcore, which > by the generational clock, is due for a revival....
I'm afraid that in certain countries it never went away Kent (hangs head in shame) Jason PS Excellent post by the way 2008/7/2 kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is an interesting topic. Interesting enought that I feel > compelled to pull some completely ungrounded theorizing out of my > tuchis. > > I think what drives these cycles at it's root is that people are like > ducks -- they form their deepest emotional attachment to the music > they hear when they're young. This applies to people who actually > make music every bit as much as it does to punters. So when it comes > their turn to provide the soundtrack for the zeitgeist, they turn > naturally to the music of their youth. They update it with influences > of everything that has happened in the meantime, changes in music > technology, etc. And this trolling through the wonder years is also > reactionary -- they use elements of what they liked about music past > to counter what they dislike about music present. > > So if House music is the current vogue, it's soul and gospel roots are > an antidote to the blandness of minimal techno, combined with > nostalgia for the raw sounds of early House music. This will be > replaced in due time with something else again. And not so much > amongst us out in flyover country, but in New York, London, Berlin, > Paris, Barcelona, there's the element of fashion involved. Once > something becomes too popular amongs the hoi polloi, the in crowd > needs to find something different. > >
