New Rave
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| New Rave | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins: | indie rock, rave music, dance-punk, electronic dance music,New Wave, "Madchester". |
| Cultural origins: | mid-2000s United Kingdom. |
| Typical instruments: | Electric guitar - Bass - Drums - Keyboard - Synthesizers - Drum machines |
| Mainstream popularity: | Mostly limited to the UK though also popular elsewhere in Europe such as the Netherlands[citation needed] |
| Regional scenes | |
| Related to the largely-American dance-punk scene.[1][2] | |
New Rave (sometimes labelled New-Rave, Nu Rave, Neu- Rave or Nu-Rave), is an term applied to several types of music that go from fusing elements of electronic, New Wave music, disco music, rock, Indie music, to Techno, Hip-House, Electro Break-Beat; Rousing Rave from the Grave; retrieved March 31, 2007. New Rave does not yet define a style, but a free mix of styles, that developed in different cities around the world.[citation needed] Music publication NME is largely responsible for popularizing the term throughout 2006 and 2007. The genre has connotations of being a 'new' version of 'rave' as well as being a corruption of the term 'new wave'.
Klaxons,[3][4][5] New Young Pony Club,[6][7][8][9] and SHITDISCO[3] are generally accepted as the main exponents of the genre. We can consider Paris, London, Porto, Birmingham, Miami and Hamburg as the main development polos of New Rave culture, although perhaps, it has now spread to a big part of the globe.
The aesthetics of the New Rave scene are largely similar to those of the original rave scene, being mostly cenetred around psychedelic visual effects. Glowsticks, neon and other lights are common, and followers of the scene often dress in extremely bright and fluorescent colored clothing.[3][10]
[edit] Criticism
The actual sound of original Rave (hard four to the floor beats, no conventional instrumentation, certainly no guitars) is barely (if at all) discernable in the majority of bands referred to as 'new rave' giving further credence to the fact that the term is nonsensicle and ultimately meaningless, basically another way for self important journalists to feel like they've actually discovered something before anyone else has or that maybe they're contributing something to music when in fact they're just displaying their desperate, pitiful need to apply labels to anything they can. Bands such as The Sunshine Underground,[11] Cansei de Ser Sexy, Solo Combo [12], and Hot Chip[13] are often labeled as New Rave due to their large following by fans of the genre, despite evolving in a different musical culture and, in some cases, a different country. Several have publicly declared they have nothing to do with the genre. Indeed, even Klaxons have declared they are not New Rave, describing it as a "joke that’s got out of hand."[14] [15][10]
NME's re-branding a strand of music as an evolution of rave has been met with distaste by some of those involved in the resurgence of the UK breakbeat hardcore / hardcore breaks scene, which has also been described as 'Nu Rave'. In their review of the Klaxons' new album, Myths of the Near Future, the NME branded all ravers of the traditional rave scene “twats with baggy trousers” a statement typical of the embittered and generally laughable journalists who work for the rag. [16]
The New Rave scene can be viewed as a media construct, largely propounded by the NME and TRAX with other publications treating the subject as a joke.[6] The belief that many of the bands associated with New Rave can more appropriately be associated with the genre of dance-punk has given credence to such suggestions, although differences between both genres are said to be minor. John Harris has stated in The Guardian newspaper that the genre is nothing more than a "piss-poor supposed 'youthquake'" that will soon go out of fashion in the same way as rave. [6]
[edit] References
- ^ Time Out
- ^ popmatters.com
- ^ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedrousing_rave_from_the_grave - ^ BBC News. January 3, 2007; Sound of 2007: Klaxons; retrieved March 31, 2007
- ^ The Observer. January 28, 2007;New Rave is Dead; Long Live the Klaxons; retrieved March 31, 2007
- ^ a b c The Guardian. October 13, 2006;New Rave? Old Rubbish; retrieved March 31, 2007
- ^ The Guardian. January 5, 2007; 2007's original soundtrack; retrieved April 12, 2007
- ^ Boston Globe. April 6, 2007; Meet the NEW rave. Same as the old rave?; retrieved April 12, 2007
- ^ Sunday Life. February 4, 2007; Music: Having a blast; retrieved April 12, 2007
- ^ a b The Guardian. February 3, 2007; The future's bright...; retrieved March 31, 2007
- ^ Sunshine Underground gig review. NME. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.
- ^ Ípsilon Solo combo and DJ Megamix 2009 live set review. Ípsilon. Retrieved on 2007-12-21.
- ^ Times Online Hot Chip Review review. Times Online. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
- ^ Entertainment Wise. November 1, 2006;Klaxons: We're Not New Rave; retrieved March 31, 2007
- ^ Popworld inteview. April 13th, 2007;Music News; Retrieved April 14th, 2007
- ^ NME Review: Klaxons - Myths Of The Future. March 4, 2007; Klaxons: Myths Of The Future; retrieved April 02, 2007
[edit] External links
- 'Rave Dog - a documentary about Trash fashion and Nu-Rave on FourDocs'
- 'Nu Rave Blog - a dedicated blog about music, fashion and the new rave culture'da:Garagepop
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