The future

[jchrisobrien]

This question is poised mostly for my DJ friends, but any music fan can throw in their input.

Where do you see the goth/industrial/synthpop scene progressing to?
Is there a genre you see rising in popularity?

Name one band that deserves to be played more. I'm always up for expanding my musical library.

The last few CD's I've picked up lately have been from DJ Micro, Christopher Lawrence, and Hybrid. I also got the new Velvet Acid Christ (quite liked it), Haujobb (so-so), and Decoded Feedback (quite liked it).

Comments

[brigid.livejournal.com]

i really like autechre, aphex twin, plaid, luke vibert at the moment, i've kind of been in a new music rut lately, as nothing has really captivated me.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

I've heard some Aphex Twin thanks to Cris, I'll have to check out some of the others. The lastest CD I bought was Hybrid's Morning Sci-Fi, which so far is pretty good.

CORK ROCK!

[missy-carriage.livejournal.com]

I see a mass pilgrimage to Retard Rock. Chris Burke has a band and an album. Now, what I am working on, with several producers, is a new synth-pop/EBM sound with all malignant chromosome voices!

Think about it! It would be Haujob without any pretense!

Oh by the way, I'm Missy.

Re: CORK ROCK!

[silas7.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you, Missy.
Haujobb w/no pretension? That would be pretty neat.

I wouldn't mind seeing some angrier music coming back into vogue. I always said Republican presidents were a godsend for the industrial music scene. Yet that hasn't seemed to happen. Perhaps power noise is replacing industrial as the new angry music, but I can't stand power noise.

It's a good thing I still have my old Ministry and Skinny Puppy albums!

[alonewiththemoon]

In the goth side of things at least I foresee a return to the late 70s early 80s post punk sound, that very creative time when punk and goth and death rock and synth bands swirled and overlapped. Faith and the Muse and Sunshine Blind have released albums this year with that sound featured prominently. I think it is something of a backlash against so much later 80s electroclash influence. ("No, Interpol, _this_ is what Joy Division sounded like!")

But I could be completely wrong :)

[silas7.livejournal.com]

You've had a lot to say about those two albums, I'd love to give them a listen and hear what they are up to. I think the scene could use a little more variety, but I'm not ready to throw anything out of the window just yet.

[sbazzy.livejournal.com]

for a long time, i've seen the scene progressing toward synthcrap like CoVeN(V)a(pop)nt. i mean, as opposed to what i consider to be "good" synthpop (like Mesh). i am happy, though, that deathrock has been gaining some popularity and that people are getting into bands like The Deep Eynde and Bella Morte's deathrock stuff.

Decoded Feedback are good (if not a little industrial-by-numbers - which can still be very good), Haujobb is good (haven't heard the new one but Polarity is a masterpiece).

all i really have to recommend for the moment is The Deep Eynde ("Suicide Drive"), NOFX ("The War on Errorism"), anything by Chemlab (who i'll never get sick of) and possibly Imperative Reaction. oh, and The Faint. they rock.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

I believe I remember Fudjo mentioning Mesh, i should track some tunes of theirs down.

Some of the luster is wearing off for me, but I still like bands like VNV and to a lesser extend Covenant and Apop. Part of me wants to ask people WHY they hate it so much. Is it overplayed? Is it lacking in complexity? Is it too widely popular and not obscure enough? The bottom line is, if you don't like something you don't like it. People can argue all night that one band is crap and another isn't but they are just splitting hairs and personal taste anyhow.

Part of why I like Decoded Feedback so good now is that they are crunchy and not at all like Assemblage 23 and the like. I have some old Chemlab and Imperative Reaction. I should check out the Faint (I've probably heard them already, and don't know it).

[sbazzy.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants to ask people WHY they hate it so much. Is it overplayed? Is it lacking in complexity? Is it too widely popular and not obscure enough?

it's not so much that i hate it, it's that it gets really old really fast in large quantities. by "large quantity" i mean 3 or 4 songs by the same band every wed at Manray or even just listening to a whole album at home. VNV, Covenant and Apop are all good and interesting in their own way - the problem i have is that they don't appear to be evolving much as artists, and one album to the next just sounds too similar (Apop is kindof an exception here). i just dislike listening to the same loops over and over and like to look for more evolution, depth and creativity in music than these bands seem to be able to provide.

The bottom line is, if you don't like something you don't like it.

damn straight.

if you'd like, i can rip some Mesh and Faint for you. i have lots :)

[silas7.livejournal.com]

That would be sweet. Just a few songs by each, enough to prompt me to buy the albums. I want to support the good music!

I thought Futureperfect showed some change in styles and songs, but of course the ones you hear at the club are the ones that sound like their older stuff! And yes, no artist should be played more than once a night. it would go a long way towards getting more variety out there.