Is there any genre currently undergoing a golden period?
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Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
funky house is doing well i heard.
miniGMgoit
OverWeightUnderAchiever
California hippy stuff such as Brightblack (although not from there definatly part of the scene), Entrance, Paz L (what ever her last name is) Tom Carter. I really love that "scene" at the moment.
The noise scene could be said to be in a golden age, though it kind of has been for about five years now, so I dunno if you can really call it that. peeps like Wolf Eyes, Blood Stereo, Fossils, Chora, Towering Breaker, Mutant Ape, Filthy Turd, Kylie Minoise, BBBlood, Mattin, Greenmist, Cheapmachines, Cheapmachines...
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Half-mane pigeon skiffle, amazing sounds of people skiffling rubbing pigeons against shorn horses. You should all check it out.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
haha, i can just imagine. there's been bands doing that kind of Half Japanese NY No Wave thang for about 30 years now.
and they are ALWAYS shit.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
hmmm...a lot of those acts I don't know but i really detest Wolf Eyes and all those bands like them who are trying to do what sounds to me like a power electronics cum digital hardcore version of death metal. It's like the ultimate in tetosterone rock for adenoidal loners.
(Kylie Minoise is a great name though)
clandestino
no llevar papel
Wolf Eyes are on the small list of bands I know have permanently damaged my hearing. 
I doubt you'd like many of those bands to be honest then.
But in defence of Wolf Eyes, I'd say they're certainly not macho in that Nietzshean power electronics fascistic way. They're a bit jock, a bit duuuuude, a bit Big Lebowski in their dumbass reefer 'n' bud ethos. They're like the noise equivalent of Kiss. They make me laugh.
But in defence of Wolf Eyes, I'd say they're certainly not macho in that Nietzshean power electronics fascistic way. They're a bit jock, a bit duuuuude, a bit Big Lebowski in their dumbass reefer 'n' bud ethos. They're like the noise equivalent of Kiss. They make me laugh.
I fully agree but I would call that a renaissance rather than a golden era
whatever it is, it's very welcome
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
yea, you see, i fucking HATE, LOATHE AND DETEST that kind of schtick. And their singer has a dick's face.
saw another really shit band on the bill when i had the misfortune to catch Wolf eyes, yet again , supportin WH in New York. Pig Destroyer i think they were called. Utter pants.
apologies, as i'm well out of 'the scene' but do you still really get Nietzshean power electronics fascistic type bands these days?
Very very sad if you do. I noticed Con-Dom are playing a gig soon. they always seemed to scrape the barrell for that type of crap amongst the 2nd wavers. tho i'm sure there's loads of horrors who have come along in their wake even worse.
well, I normally don't relate to that kind of thing either. But I like the stumbling, shambolic, hit-and-miss quality to some of Wolf Eyes music – there's a neanderthal lack of control that's the complete opposite of Whitehouse. (Though the Canadian band Fossils do what Wolf Eyes do without the stoner schtick and, as it happens, make better music in my opinion.)
Yeah, I hear the odd thing like that on myspace, but turn off so quick I don't even remember the names.
B'more and Bassline aren't going anywhere though, they've been in some kind of stasis for 2 years, nothing I ever hear with the tag sounds much different to what I last heard, I keep trying to find stuff that's new-sounding and I always fail. Maybe it's just not to my taste though.
I miss breakcore. And jungle
Dubstep is doing alright, I'm looking forward to ragga dubstep blowing up properly, but I don't know if it will. Some of the stuf Skream's done recently is kind of techno-ey and I'd love a scene to (re-)emerge that's hard dub-technostep.
Meh.
chico enrico
No hair shows you care.
hmmm. will have to check them out. actually, last time i caught wolf eyes they did do a song i quite liked which i think may have had violin or some other stringed instrument but it's just their crap stoner/death metal image that puts me off. and the singer's big stupid toothy surfer face.
damnhippie
shark sandwich
???
pig destroyer are a pretty much straight up grind band...or they used to be... i like em anyway. weird billing.
lights.out.london
Black Flag
i don't think that the noise scene is the best it's ever been, but it has potential to be so.
a noise act still seems to me to be more likely to name influences from the 80s 90s, rather than say prurient or wolf eyes. and i'm not sure what i think of wolf eyes and prurient anyway.
but then compared to other genres i keep finding lots of very little idiosyncratic acts, and this is surely a good sign.
and obviously rock music is the devil's music and dance music is still reeling from getting too close to the devil's music, and industrial everyone knows ended 20 years before punk, and so on.
i mean history class is difficult, esp without encyclopedic like listening habits.
but then compared to other genres i keep finding lots of very little idiosyncratic acts, and this is surely a good sign.
and obviously rock music is the devil's music and dance music is still reeling from getting too close to the devil's music, and industrial everyone knows ended 20 years before punk, and so on.
i mean history class is difficult, esp without encyclopedic like listening habits.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Italo
Y_I_Otter
Dangerous Terroirist
Indian classical music, especially North Indian classical music, has been in a Golden Age since the late sixties. When one considers its long history, the addition of new instruments and novel approaches incorporated into the canon over the last few decades will be viewed in the future as positively revolutionary.
ska invita
back on the other side
Id say UK house is having a golden age - huge amounts of music getting made in a wide variety of styles - the last five years have been a rennaisance. By house it tends to be deeper sounding stuff, as opposed to the house of the superclub period, which is all the more encouraging. Time will tell how many of these tracks end up being future classics - certainly a few out there.
