Dance music’s Nineties futurism gave way to Noughties fixation on the past

Evidence

KM: The concept of futurism also contains the idea that a cultural form can capture the zeitgeist of an era and facilitate/modulate the vision of the one to come and by implication revolt against past cultural practices; this might also in this case translate with the idea of “the sound of now” that was a vastly common mood of UK dance music in the Nineties, and the continuous re-organisation of label, clubs, promoters, DJs in new networks and sub-genres that created an inbuilt obsolescence in the micro-scenes themselves. A sort of voluntary short-term memory imbalance that is hard to understand in the following decade — the Noughties — in which one of the most original and popular artist has been Burial, which has been one visible manifestation of a fixation with the past which has previously reached similar levels in indie-rock. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1247

Categorization

• DEFINE: “Voluntary short-term memory imbalance” is a striking term for the micro-scene churn that produced inbuilt obsolescence within Nineties dance culture.
• XREF: connects to: UK dance music shifted from future-directed to intensive internal exploration — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1236; The Nineties’ future-euphoria gave way to cultural deceleration and depleted resources — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1240; Nineties dance music evolved along a linear axis of intensification that discarded its past — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1249 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Nineties dance music evolved along a linear axis of intensification that discarded its past #qualifies (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1249
• Post-Nineties electronic music retreated into conventional musicality and recessive detail #corroborates (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1252
• Electronic dance music moved from formal innovation to production refinement across the 2000s #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1257
• Mainstream music of the 2010s fixated on recreating past sounds rather than innovating #expands (0.72)
• Nineties rave music measured evolution by bodily intensity and punishing extremes #expands (0.70) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1251