Then there’s digital maximalism, which just seems like a wearying, indiscriminate outpouring of collective incontinence.
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And while the mainstream squanders the astonishing potential of digital audio technology in that manner, the greatest creative minds of the musical underground have turned into a bunch of look-back bores, intent upon steadfastly refusing to explore the full potential of the vintage synthesizers they just bought on eBay. For most people, music has become little more than an optional feature of smartphones, designed to pump out shitty-sounding MP3s of hyper-compressed uber kitsch at the most antisocial of opportunities. It’s hard to remember a year when music per se was more marginal to western popular culture or when mainstream pop music was more shamelessly heinous. Let’s look on the dark side first, get that out of the way. Well… sometimes, it seems like every year is simultaneously a better year for music than the previous one and a worse year for music than ever. So, what’s been happening? Well there’s this… and then… But the music’s all that matters and the music is great. The upshot of all this is that the grammar may be marginal and the writing a little half-baked.
What is more, there was a major technical calamity at one point, which caused an entire evening’s worth of work to be lost forever. No critical rigour or close proofreading was applied at any stage. The usual caveats apply: this rather lengthy post was pecked out over a disjointed series of sittings. Another year ends and along comes another Bubblegum Cage III end-of-year list.
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