Once the Inevitable 90s Revival occurs which genre will be the most influetial or popular?

Read an essay on the Prodigy and Kid606 pictures a couple of weeks ago:

http://datacide.c8.com/commodities-for-the-jilted-generation/

wathing one of those videos by the xx reminded me that people have an infinite capacity for the ultra-cool deadpan short sharp shocked thing a la elastica. cuz it makes people feel cooler and bands like that always feel/seem "new" even if they aren't. or at least they do for a little while. like a new fashion line.

"watching" not wathing

While we're talking graphics, I'll be looking forward to seeing these:

http://img19.imagehosting.gr/out.php/i1159740_1-2-3d-magic-eye.jpg

Also this?

http://eschright.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/images/MANDELBROT2.11144535.jpg

woah. What were those things supposed to be?

i can SEE it!!!!

when worlds collide:

http://een.se/niklas/sis/bw/mandel_preview.jpg

duh

http://een.se/niklas/sis/bw/mandel_preview.jpg

i had "the invisible man" on my bedroom wall. the 90s were pretty garish overall.

garish, faddish 3D already back!

'baby got back' used to sell tweens backpacks at target and flava flav reality shows means 90s have already been stripmined?

http://www.flyingrhino.co.uk/picts/webtitle2.jpg

http://www.plong.com/MusicCatalog/V/VA%20-%20Reactivate%209/VA%20-%20Reactivate%209.jpg

i live in hope

This thread has turned out great, against all expectations!

sorry tim, i only really heard of psy-trance in the 00's. before that people i knew always called it goa trance. they sound the smae to me though.

They are the same. I was into that stuff for a short time in the mid-nineties, and I went to my first Goa trance party in 1996, so I can guarantee psy-trance and Goa are the same genre. It's true that it was called Goa trance first, but I'm pretty sure people started using the term "psychedelic trance" already in the 90s.

Phantasm compilation from 1995 with "Psychedelic Trance" on its cover: http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=149783

hairy-muff, and now you mention it yeah i think i do remember people calling it that back in the 90s. the old grey matter's not what it used to be.

Too much Hooch amirite?

http://www.ncbe.reading.ac.uk/dna50/Resources/springwater.jpeg

^posted in utter shame

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THAT?!

Booze flavored like bad candy and marketed towards ravers or maybe Xfiles fans.

I did not know this at the time, but it was brought to you by the same company that made Jolt!

the 90s were pretty garish overall

these sweeping gens should've been left in the 90s themselves.

Another over-used one: "grunge destroyed hair metal".

Cause we all know Metallica did that.

From the perspective of someone who was a tween at the time and who just bided his time from new Motley Crue album to new Extreme album to new Poison album, it sure felt that way to me! xp to Neil S.

from what i remember there was quite a bit of a crossover period with bands like Tigertailz and Poison being around at the same time as Pearl Jam et al. Then you had bands who were kind of half way, not really grunge, but still tatty - the Quireboys, Guns'n'Roses, Skid Row...

geir, don't know about norway but indie/hipster types have been wearing some painfully tight keks these last few years. curse these footballer's legs.

Indie fans are outsiders.

that hasn't really been true since about 1995.

In fairness, nowhere in Geirworld does Russell Brand exist, so it must be a pretty nice place to be.

This was in the player at my mates' house the other day:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Dance-Tip-A-Decade-Of-Dance/release/1469633

i can already hear these tracks ironicising student dancefloors across the land. probably already happening.

that hasn't really been true since about 1995.

It is true and remains true. The average 13 year-old kid still likes pop and hip-hop, just like in 1995 and 1990.

(And the mainstream, as in pop mainstream, will always be defined by 13YO kids)

yes, but not fashion.

*realises there's no point*

The 90s revival has been happening for awhile, hasn't it? Deep house, for instance..

Geir, I'm not sure if it's that different in Norway, but in Finland at least hip-hop and baggy jeans haven't been particularly fashionable for years, and average teens actually do wear tight jeans and dress in "indie" or "rock'n'roll" or "metal" fashion.

The 90s revival has been happening for awhile, hasn't it? Deep house, for instance..

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 26 March 2010 13:05 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I wouldn't necessarily call that a 90s revival, just a deep house revival. Despite a dearth of electro in the '90s, you still got little pockets of it, I-F's "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" from 1996 for example. these things aren't that clear cut i guess.

Dearth of electro? In the 90s you had Alter Ego, Jedi Knights, Two Lone Swordsmen, Kerosene, Khan, DJ Hell, Mike Paradinas, etc etc, all of them doing their take on electro. Though I guess you're right that the 00s electro was more about reviving certain parts of 80s electro wholesale, whereas 90s electro was more about building on the foundation of the 80s. (I prefer the 90s style.)

The names you mention were very much underground though.

As in, I mean, there will always be an underground for reviving styles that were popular in the past. Particularly with the net, you can find a revival underground scene for any genre that has ever been popular.

even britpop

Don't know about the others, Tuomas, but I I'd argue that 2LS's '90s stuff wasn't really electro. Obviously there was an influence, same as dub, funk and punk etc but they didn't make a proper electro album till 2000's Tiny Reminders. Same with Mike Paradinas, although granted the Jake Slazenger project could have been interpreted as electro.

oh hey i actually have a real question. what was going on in the 90's that would create/help create the whole german kompakt/microhouse scene/sound? were those guys just listening to minimal detroit techno records in the 90's? were they big idm fans? i think i might have actually answered my own question...

+ several preceding Euro labels e.g. Basic Channel, F Com, Emissions, Ladomat 2000

i'd say Tresor was headed in the very micro-tech kind of direction as well for awhile

I'm trying to work out which record from the 90s will be ripped off the most. I'm thinking Hip Hop Hooray by Naughty by Nature at the moment.

since this thread began i've discovered/rediscovered Credit To The Nation - why weren't this band MUCH bigger than they were? Definitely ahead of their time in the Brit-hop stakes.