Here are two very interesting articles that deserve some critical attention. I decided to put them into the same topic, even though they are a little different.
I like Simon Reynolds, but that article is a bit clickbaity. He’s trying to repackage the Avant Garde as if there’s something new about it. Also, he keeps spelling Gabber wrong.
Watched the first video. What was it about again? People more interested in the process than the actual musical output?
I don’t get it
Now I kinda read through the second one. I’m not sure I see the distinction between IDM & conceptronica tbh - maybe I need to be millenial or younger to get it? Conceptronica as a word just conjures up art school students who grew up listening to 90s warp music in my mind, tbh. Not sure I get all the hype within, its just music. With an angle of “millenial ansgt” served on the side, and piss poor CGI justified as “postmodernism”
TL;DR - Guess I’ll never understand art school people… even if I lived with one for 5 years 
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Why is Britain a tiny island always ahead of the rest of the planet when it comes to music? It is the power of the BBC?
It’s a special ingredient in our crumpets and roast dinners.
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nah the BBC has been shit for a while now
It’s because there’s fuck all else to do.
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Haha. Im with you brother 
is there such a thing as being “ahead” in music?
I still listen to traditional acoustic music as well and a lot of it sounds more interesting and engaging than contemporary music I hear on BBC.
To tell the truth, I don’t even know what is the “contemporary sound”… most current mainstream genres were originated at least 8 years ago, but just weren’t massively popular back then. Havent heard anything genuinely new sounding in ages tbh
Is there any people writing anything at pitchfork who aren’t already past middle life crisis ? 
I sit here, a priviledged, angsty young man reading postmodern philosophy and listen to IDM to cope with the fact that my parents sent me to art school fully paid and set me up in an uptown studio instead of what I really wanted from them: emotional intimacy.
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…does cocaine have vitamins?
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I used to know a guy who called cocaine vitamin C.
He was a bellend.
I think there is. John Peel on BBC radio was often one step ahead when introducing bands(especially controversial and instrumental electronica)>.
And he’s been dead for 16 years.
The first article is slim and could have expanded way more AI tech and music generation. That’s the interesting part imho as optimizing music with tech, using algorithms etc could open up some opportunities to create something we haven’t heard before with code, new hardware, etc.
The second article sounds like the author is trying to make “conceptronica” a thing. I’m not a fan of putting labels on things, tagging, meta tagging, social media BS, etc. Kinda wish we had an unsocial movement where people don’t feel the need to advertise, video or meme ever thought or action they do. But That rant is not for this board. My point is, conceptronica is not a thing.
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I just read the second article properly.
I’ve no idea what point he’s trying to make. He just keeps saying conceptronica all the time and talking about Lee Gamble.
There a lack of LSD which often helps in thinking out of the box. I just watched the Beatles Strawberry Fields video and their eyes were like pin pricks. A sure sign of drugs. How can people think of sonic futures by being normal state of mind? Philip K Dick was hooked on the stuff. His future thinking books like Do androids… would never have materialised without a substance that altered the mind.
That is the one exception from back in the days, agree.
bullshit, plenty of visionary literature has been conceived by sober writers.
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