Actually I'd mostly now say youtube sidebar recommendations more than any other means. I'll hear of a band to check out, find their song or video, and then end up deep through a rabbit hole of other acts(of varying quality)
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where do you guys even find all this new music?
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mechapop
offlineI'M NOT GAY!!Posted 4 months ago # -
rageofsadako
offlineMemberall of the above: bandcamp, last.fm, spotify, facebook, cdbaby,etc...
statements like "most the bands i love arent even on a label and release everything for free. art for art" and the other stuff bashing this scene for bands supposedly not utilizing downloads, bandcamp, word of mouth, and youtube is some of the most ignorant shit I've read in awhile here. Most of the younger bands in this scene nowadays utilize youtube videos, free downloads, and other means or guerilla "marketing" (for lack of a better term)to get their stuff out there- if you haven't found this to be the case you're either willfully ignorant of it or in denial. We're not all "grrr buy my cd and I'm signed to a label." lol
Posted 3 months ago # -
soillodge
offlineTech ModeratorProve it. Show me a band or three that is tied to this scene that is utilizing progressive methods for promotion and distribution. DIY or alternate packaging [ie vinyl, CDr, cassette], Youtube videos that don't have static art, conceptual multi-media ideas, proper BandCamp or Big Cartel presentations. I know a handful myself, but I wonder if you do.
Is anyone even doing any collaborative releases that are not just scattered compilations of music? One thing I love about the witch-house music is all the collaborative EP releases. Powwoww and Micro Naps, Ritualz and Fostercare, Grimes and DE'on, Blacklodgecave and Eye Doublecross. The list is VERY long. Can you people imagine if bands in this scene did contrasting releases like this? And they were fucking 5$ on Bandcamp. Whoa, that would be the shit. yeah we used to have the remix wars. Since then we pretty much have garbage extended CD's with crappy tired remixes and we have to buy the CD or get punished with shite AAC or MP3's with no artwork or extras.
Most of what I see coming from this scene is pretty half-assed. Not really well thought out our clever at all. Just a focus on getting people to buy a plastic disc, club DJ attention, and attend their shows. The ultimate goal is to get signed and live the illusion of the DAC. The music mostly mirrors this laziness and lack of attention to detail. Fucking pathetic.
`michael
Posted 3 months ago # -
mechapop
offlineI'M NOT GAY!!Every single artist in the EBM, electronic, pop, rap, whatever scene should check out this short 5 minute documentary: "The Evolution of Music Online" by PBS Arts
[+] Embed the video Get the Video Plugins It's basically about right now, 2012 and how soundcloud/blogs/spotify/pandora/youtube/etc is the new record label/radio/mtv for people these days. A lot of lessons to be learned in that 5 minutes, found it inspiring and an eye opener.
Posted 3 months ago # -
mechapop
offlineI'M NOT GAY!!I just want to know, when did industrial fashion become such an embarrassing joke?
I remember death rock, early 90's industrial people with leather jackers, military stuff, cool haircuts and custom made type fashion.Now its all this shit
[+] Embed the video Get the Video Plugins Christ, and that's Germany. Might as well call it juggalo goth
Posted 3 months ago # -
rageofsadako
offlineMemberlol, I see there is no reasoning or waking you from this little illusion you have fabricated. Enjoy.
Posted 3 months ago # -
soillodge
offlineTech ModeratorHa, too bad you couldn't back up your own argument. Just as half-assed as the bands you proclaim to defend.
@Corey-it started to happen around Y2K when everything became a club mix. I blame raves. They infected our scene with foul neon garbage.
`michael
Posted 3 months ago # -
Veillance
offlineMember@mechapop
Oh crap, it hurts watching this. Only in Germany, people can achieve such a high level of stupidity. If I would have had such a video available when posting my thread, it would have been way easier for me, to explain myself.
Posted 3 months ago # -
mechapop
offlineI'M NOT GAY!!@Veillance: Oh trust me, that embarrassing style is all you find at my local
"goth industrial" clubs where I live. Thankfully San Francisco is an hour and a half drive, and they offer both classic 80's death rock-goth-old industrial nights as well as a lot of the dark post industrial indie stuff popping up.I thought my friend was kidding when he said this pretty much signaled the death of the scene
[+] Embed the video Get the Video Plugins Posted 3 months ago # -
retrosonique
offlineMemberI stopped the search long time ago. Try to find some Dark Electro stuff and you'll find a bunch of shit. The whole Electro-Industrial and Dark Electro movement seems to be dead. Today, "electro music" sounds like Scooter on LSD. There are no acceptable successors of Skinny Puppy, Klinik, Data-Bank-A, Numb, FLA, Mentallo, Leæther Strip, Lassigue Bendthaus, Dive, X Marks the Pedwalk, Plastic Noise Experience, yelworC, Placebo Effect, Trial, Individual Totem, Mortal Constraint, Putrefy Factor 7, Abscess, Pulse Legion, Gridlock or Tri-State. All the stuff of today sounds like cheap shit.
Posted 3 months ago # -
CharlieAngel
offlineMemberI just have this image of some dude in his basement making fun of how people dress while he's wearing a cut-off muscle shirt, camo shorts and combat boots. I find cybergoth to be AMUSING, but I'm probably the last person to ever start making fun of how someone dresses in the scene. And, truth be told, more skinny-stripper-candy-ravers, please. It's already painful with the back-brace and steel-toes, now-a-days you gotta have some folks on speed dial in case you need a team lift with some of these scene heifers.
Posted 3 months ago #
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