Truly sexy music seems like a thing of the archetypal 1980s. The luxe, nostalgia-addled hallucination of plastic-laminate luxury and brick glass, combined with cocaine and digital synthesis seems like a paradigmatic backdrop for hypersexually smooth music.
Gabi Abrão, a digital/spiritual theorist known as @sighswoon on Instagram, discussed the intersections of internet culture and modern spirituality — a sort of pop psychology for The Age of the Influencer. She makes memes, using them as sort of “micro-essays” for a new brand of self-help.
Vaporwave. An internet “microgenre,” ill-defined as lazy, unimportant, slowed-down elevator music, embodies the outlook of millennials, Generation Z and even some of the more disillusioned members of earlier postmodernity.
It seems like Steve Lacy floats through his life with luck on his side. How else could such fortuitous circumstances grace him? He joined The Internet at the age of 15, earned producer credits on their grammy-nominated Ego Death, and…
“VWETO II is an astral funk laden mindscape. Best used for long term discussions, late night car cyphers, deep contemplation, clearing the air after an argument or starting a brand new day. Repeat as needed.” – Georgia Anne Muldrow Instrumental…
As soon as the first bass note of this jazz-funk LP sunk into my ears, I thought: “does Japan do America better than America?” It’s almost robotic, the way they imitate uniquely “American” music and perfect it to an…
Black, Latino and LGBT communities have used music and dance as a coping and articulation mechanism for the painful condition of disenfranchisement. For black victims of Apartheid South Africa, it was the Afro-synth bubblegum disco that ignited activism.
Jennifer Lara’s soulful breakthrough album (released in 1974) is a timeless piece of Jamaican music. The soft but acute grooves sound baked. It feels like they left every copy of this LP in the island sun for hours before distribution.…
Music and art is subjective; what makes “good” art is totally up to the subject. There are some universal truths about what makes art beautiful, like symmetry, harmony and composition, but the lines are often blurred.