F###tronica
June 24th 2008 07:03
So – what’s happened to Folktronica, then…? It’s been around for ever such a long time, even longer than that rather famous Scottish chap that goes by the Greek name beginning with “M”. No doubt it was an attempt to” flip the bird” at the previous current wave, electronica or “Intelligent Dance Music” as it rather pretentiously called itself. And wasn’t it just..!? With all those clever little cut n paste jobs in the percussion section, or “fucked up beats” as it was referred to by the super cool. Yet another example of mediums being messages and all that stuff we had drummed into us at college. The composition inevitably ended up sounding like the software that made it.
So after wading through the 90’s with the boys with their toys, and how clever they were when fiddling with their knobs and sliders... how nice it would be to slide to the opposite end of the pole, (as is often the case with progressive generations) and indulge in a bit of naive pastoral sweetness. And don’t forget that the Astrid Gilberto of the Artic Circle, Ms Guðmundsdóttir, had been at it for a while, and doing rather a nice job of being a girl whilst being articulate with technologies all at the same time. Finally the girls could grab those knobs out of the boy’s hands and have a good fiddle themselves! But this isn’t just about a shift from the masculine to the feminine – after all, blokes can be gentle and sensitive too, thank-you-very-much!!
Anyway, what’s happened to it? It appears to have gone really very folksy and they seem to have given up their laptops entirely in some cases and replaced them with lutes, flutes and harps etc – some even claiming John Dowland as an influence.
Oh…. We seem to be going down that nostalgia route again…
Anyway, what’s happened to it? It appears to have gone really very folksy and they seem to have given up their laptops entirely in some cases and replaced them with lutes, flutes and harps etc – some even claiming John Dowland as an influence.
Oh…. We seem to be going down that nostalgia route again…
bugger that laptop!
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