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No Music on a Dead Internet

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By Gabriel Szatan Verified
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← There Is No Sound Of The 2020s. Yet. There are many issues hampering modern electronic music culture, judged at varying levels of urgency person to person: hypercommercialism, regressive politics, institutional failings, social brainrot, dwindling youth spaces, underfunding of the arts, and so on. All are valid. But there's one that colours more or less every interaction we have with culture, and is therefore trickier to probe without sparking a chain reaction of gloom.
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There Is No Sound Of The 2020s. Yet.

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By Gabriel Szatan Verified
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No Music on → a Dead Internet Earlier this year, I spent an entire night drifting around a very prominent club stacked with very prominent DJs, and I felt nothing. On paper, the bill was strong: a mix of veterans and breakthroughs from different generations, including several outright stars in their field. But by some deadening alchemy, the sets smushed into a homogenous paste, largely indistinguishable in tempo and tone.
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Oasis: (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

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By Gabriel Szatan Verified
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You might have heard, but Britpop’s greatest group returned this year in a blaze of summer-dominating, triumphal glory. Plus, easily missed, Oasis got back together, too. Odd as it is to say now, Live ’25 wasn’t a nailed-on success. Questions swirled: Would the irascible brothers keep their egos and fratricidal instincts in check? Could they swerve notoriety for playing so slowly that the life drains out of even the most committed loyalist?
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