Indie music is obsessed with the past - but why is its sense of nostalgia so melancholic?
Reexamining the legacy of acid house's influence on early breakbeat hardcore and the diversity of sound that it brought to a genre that drew from anything and everything.
Getting angry at the late 1990s record industry. Like usual.
We get nostalgic about the mixtape: part rave-era cultural artifact, part long-last artform, part format curiosity. Also: Georgia goes on a long rant about her favorite still-operational rave era label.
Taking a deeper look at Lolita Storm, one of the stranger and more fondly remembered acts of the first era of digital hardcore, and attempting to disentangle their strange existence as as a group thrust into the vanguard of feminist punk despite having no desire to be a part of it.
Waxing nostalgic about simpler times and the janky DIY brilliance of early breakcore.