Young people are embarrassing. The 90s were embarrassing. Berlin is embarrassing. Deutschland always embarrassing.
I just remembered Atari Teenage Riot
Ryan Wilson
Jayden Ortiz
The music has potential to be good if you can manage to extricate the vocals from it completely.
Justin King
START THE RIOT
Lucas Barnes
I just remembered Age of Chance
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Blake Richardson
The breakcore treatment isn't half bad, it's the self-important attitude and the revo chic posturing that gets me. What were we thinking?
Ryder Taylor
That is funny. I can say that because it was before my time.
Ayden Hill
ATR was pretty tasteless, but it's fun music if you don't give it too much thought.
Luke Foster
Problem was they weren't tasteless enough. Too german for that. Spex fodder.
Christopher Carter
i also(?) live in germany, so yeah i agree
eventhough for some reason 90s techno shit just reminds me of toggo
Christian Watson
I literally only remember the name
I dont even remember what genre they are
Nicholas Cook
Wanted to post this as an example for something that was tasteless enough
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but it just sounds timid, dinky, cutesy now.
Chase Evans
2k Apocalypse Core
Matthew King
I've noticed that edgy attitude (~heavy music~) combined with electronics seems to show its age the fastest out of all music.
Landon Brooks
For one, if you get into messaging beyond the utilitarian promise of electronic dance music (get the bodies moving), a few years down the line you can't help but notice how those promises (threats) haven't been kept and how it all was yet another Larp. Beyond that, the "extreme" in genre always starts looking silly from a distance. It's always a dead-end. You can see where the extreme was of its time and not "the most" after all. That's not just with electronics of course.
Jackson Bell
True, but it's nothing inherent to either electronics or tude, but a matter of taste when all is said and done. Counterexamples:
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Mason Howard
ATR has aged exceptionally well.
Noah Fisher
embarrasing. go back to fantano and pitchfork average mu posters
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Nolan Lopez
euros are always embarrassing when they try to write in english. the scandinavians can pull it off alright, but anyone on the mainland should just focus on their mother tongue and rich home culture
the problem with groups/artists like ATR (and public enemy and dead kennedys before them, and kendrick lamar today), where they begin and end, is that the content of their sloganeering -- which, no matter how high they've cranked the edgelord volume in their delivery, wouldn't be out of place or even raise an eyebrow in any lecture hall in the western world -- just comes across as preachy and lame, even when they're trying to push the aural envelope like ATR and make it real intense bro. and then it's made doubly annoying by the robert christgaus of the world, telling you how important it is. it's just power slapping itself on the back. it's repugnant on an instinctive level
this was pretty funny, though, given last week's shitstorm
>In advance of a December 2016 concert in Tel Aviv, Israel, ATR used Facebook to declare their opposition to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, calling it "a support mechanism for Palestinian terrorist groups in their efforts to de-legitimize and ultimately destroy Israel", accusing Seeds of Peace of promoting "anti-Israel activities", and proposing that companies like Soda Stream are evidence that "working together is the best way to create a better future."
Carter Robinson
Alec Empire was a genius heralding in breakcore as a genre, you're a stupid faggot
Cooper Cruz
agree
Gabriel Thompson
>screech about fascism
>fervently support Israeli ethnostate and the displacement/murder of Palestinians
Alec Empire was always a hypocritical faggot, but what can you expect from his ilk? At least his record label introduced me to other musicians who were better (Ec8or, Christoph de Babalon and Bomb 20 immediately come to mind).