techno-optimism techno-idealism sleek design paradigms when rock began to incorporate lessons learned from techno, breaks, trance, dnb, idm etc. techno, breaks, trance, dnb and idm as genres unto themselves toonami and tom old school runescape when it was informally called runescape 2 a world before 9/11 and then a world before 2008's financial collapse
This is a thread to talk about or share music in popular (and underground) culture from '95 to '05 (but really extends to all of the 00's), or music made afterward that evokes y2k's cultural aesthetic. General y2k nostalgia is cool too.
yeah, this shit used to be everywhere and I think it still looks very good. It eventually made way for corporate minimalism which is so much more discardable in comparison. I'm quietly waiting for the culture industry to get over peddling 80s/90s nostalgia so we can get more of this type of aesthetic in popular culture.
do u know any notable examples of 'outsiders' trying this music?
imo radiohead/thom do it very successfully john frusciante of RHCP has been at it for atleast a decade, everything i heard from him sounds good but so..devoid of life, fun, experimentation idk youtube.com/watch?v=bhacTRyYkOw
i think i would have to ask who were the 'insiders', without already defining particular genres like dnb or trip-hop? i don't think this could be defined as a cohesive subculture more than a general moment of culture in time, where some bands started experimenting more with the lessons of 90s dance music. radiohead on kid a is a good example there
i think it was a subculture because when i was a kid they tried for the first time to push electronic dance music into the mainstream with shit like daft punk, moby, crystal method, fatboy slim, chemical brothers, etc they didnt call it edm though they called it electronica, and back then people would call all electronic music techno lol
Dylan Jones
some tracks from cfcf's album last year was pretty overt nostalgiabait for y2k, at least the indietronica side of it
