Participants experienced early-nineties rave music as purposeful evolutionary unfolding

Evidence

I was totally caught up in the Nineties rave culture and I can testify that there was a sensation of teleology, a palpable feeling that something was unfolding through the music. It would be easy to say in hindsight that this was an illusion but I’d rather honour the truth of how it felt at the time. On a month by month basis, you witnessed the music changing and there seemed to be a logic to its mutation and intensification. From hardcore to darkcore to jungle to drum ‘n’ bass to techstep, it felt like there was a destination, even a destiny, for the music’s relentless propulsion across the 1991 to 1996 timespan. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1248

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nineties rave music measured evolution by bodily intensity and punishing extremes — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1251; Nineties dance music evolved along a linear axis of intensification that discarded its past — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1249; Musical form’s temporal unfolding embodies a dialectic toward future plenitude — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 275 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Nineties rave music measured evolution by bodily intensity and punishing extremes #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1251
• Nineties dance music evolved along a linear axis of intensification that discarded its past #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1249
• Musical form’s temporal unfolding embodies a dialectic toward future plenitude #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 275
• Musical taste and harmonic conventions evolve as innovations become tradition #corroborates (0.72)
• Nineties dance music was affective but not introspective or romantic #complicates (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1304