{"id":5029,"date":"2013-11-03T10:20:59","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T17:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2013-11-22T18:53:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T01:53:22","slug":"attack-of-the-vacant-rave-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/03\/attack-of-the-vacant-rave-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack Of The Vacant Rave Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixmag.net\/music\/the-blog\/stop-the-tech-house-takeover\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from mixmag<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>STOP THE TECH-HOUSE TAKEOVER<\/h1>\n<p><strong>By\u00a0Seb Wheeler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"STOP THE TECH-HOUSE TAKEOVER\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixmag.net\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/article\/images\/mmnet_hdance.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"cms-content\">\n<p>Much like Japanese Knotweed, the invasive garden plant that spreads quickly and is an absolute bastard to get rid of, tech-house has taken over underground dance music with a death-like grip and is refusing to let go.<\/p>\n<p>From the grime producers frantically re-editing classic tracks to fit the tech-house template to the chart-topping electronic songstresses using the sound on their comeback singles, it\u2019s clear the infection has spread far and wide.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not only niche snobs who are getting pissed off, but respectable, BBC-approved tastemakers, too. The other day, Annie Mac tweeted: \u201cAahhh jeez, everyone\u2019s making droney house.\u201d By that, we\u2019re assuming she means the drab, uber formulaic four-to-the-floor built from over-polished percussion, mind-numbingly simple chord progressions and sappy basslines. It\u2019s paint-by-numbers dance music and it\u2019s coming for you.<\/p>\n<p>Clubs in London are currently flooded with these monochrome beats but it\u2019s not just the UK capital that\u2019s in trouble. From Miami to Berlin to Sao Paulo to Ibiza, tech-house has swept through like a dense iron curtain that blocks sunlight and crushes all living sonic cultures in its path.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a bland new world over which tech-house rules. Dancefloors are awash with soulless, globular tunes that, pitched at 123bpm, turn formerly hype party kids into vacant rave zombies; high street shops stock nothing but cheap aviator shades and V-neck T-shirts; shuffling becomes a recognised sport, replacing football on school curriculums; tribes of suburban lads overturn the local authority and police the streets, enforcing their own brand of steroid-ridden martial law; ketamine consumption quadruples and hospitals struggle to cope with the increase in burst bladders. Things get very, very bleak.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixmag.net\/music\/the-blog\/stop-the-tech-house-takeover\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading rant at mixmag.net<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from mixmag STOP THE TECH-HOUSE TAKEOVER By\u00a0Seb Wheeler Much like Japanese Knotweed, the invasive garden plant that spreads quickly and is an absolute bastard to get rid of, tech-house has taken over underground dance music with a death-like grip and is refusing to let go. From the grime producers frantically re-editing classic tracks to fit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}