Times are clearly changing. Our fellow bloggers at Missingtoof have lost their way, and it seems their last lonely post has turned into an enormous mob of angry internet surfers holding their virtual picket signs explaining that “Nu Rave is dead”. Personally, I never much appreciated the term “Nu Rave”, but the turn of events is nonetheless something to think about. Have people already become bored with the genre that was so impossibly popular not even a year ago? Or are the die hard electro addicts simply frustrated at the fact that a more extensive audience has begun to latch onto the music that once belonged to a couple hundred Roxy regulars?
TV Eyes
It was thinking about this that ended up throwing me into my own personal time machine through my collection of music from years ago. I’d almost forgotten that before 2006, electro, new disco, and “nu rave” were all simply lumped into the massive “techno” category, which basically served as the focus of all disrespect and contempt in the music industry. Such a reputation eliminated the possibility of fame in the industry, and certainly prevented the countless numbers of awful aspiring bedroom producers from drawing up a myspace and trying for success. It eliminated the fame, and the glory. And in its place, we saw producers who truly loved their music. To the point where every track was golden. In fact, flipping through this little collection of a time before Justice is making me nostalgic for a musical world that has, in the last three years, ceased to exist.
Seeing as I can’t seem to find any record of this particular artist ever having been blogged, I suppose it’s only fair to share with you, the musically cultured people of the world, the epitome of cool before it was cool, TV Eyes.
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