dystopic

It’s safe to continue with a little bit of darkness, and one of the darkest breeds of music is UK’s dubstep. It’s surprising because darkness is more or less equated with noise and guttural voices, yet dubstep freaks continue to provide darkness remaining clear cut and non distorted. Creepy.

Here’s a musical selection in his honour and a few obits and stuff, the music is supposedly Ballardian which is an adjective coined in his honour meaning “dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments”. Expect the music to be quite dystopic and dark. R.I.P Ballard the godfather of dystopia and cyberpunk.

Last time we checked Xploding Plastix their music was a crossbreed of nujazz/downtempo and electronic music. That I guess was their excellent 2001 album “Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents“. After 7 years, a trip to a major label, collaborating with the likes of Kronos Quartet, the Norwegians are back.

Continuing our soulful hiphop tour, renowned beatdigger Steve Ellison aka Flying Lotus is soon to have his sophomore album “Los Angeles” out on UK’s Warp. His debut “1983″ on Carlos Nino’s (Ammoncontact / Build an Ark) Plug Research was very well received and so was his “Reset EP” on Warp, which is pure gold!.

After the emergent Finland features of Korpi Ensemble, Kuusumun Profeetta and Alamaailman Vasarat, I wanted to consciously end this Finland feature with 2 different artists.