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Hot on the heels of their 25th anniversary issue, Mixmag’s editor Nick Decosemo branded indie rock music ‘dead’ this week, and suggested dance music is returning to the mainstream. “Music and fashion are always cyclical, we had the Strokes in 2001 which essentially killed dance music and now we’ve had the Kooks which has essentially killed indie rock,” Nick told Skrufff. “That style of indie rock has become the music for cat food commercials,” he laughed.
The former FHM fashion editor and erstwhile singer for Freeform Five predicted a minimum five year renaissance period for dance music with a wave of new stars set to emerge. “In that time when dance music was dead it was the best thing that happened,” he said, “Because there was a shift from these fucking huge stupid superclub extravaganza style events towards people who were really passionate about putting on a good party on a smaller scale, stepping in and throwing events for 400 or 500 people instead of 20,000.”
“Plus all these smaller scenes like minimal and electroclash emerged and were allowed to flourish and grow without being jumped on and squashed,” he continued, “It feels like a really exciting time for dance and electronic music again, it’s coming back in vogue again, it’s what the cool kids are into again.”
Rob Flaye says...
I like dance music too but what a stupid quote. No genre is dead,genres morph and have their hey days true but this is narrowminded sh*t. I guess it promotes debate but a pretty biased view and generic statement!! Hey I thought inthemix also ran a website called Fasterlouder!?
defiance7 says...
im cool... i like dance music
i_have_ADD says...
hey rob - the news item isn't a quote from inthemix's editor, it's from mixmag's! like you said, it's about discussion and debate - we'd never be so stupid as to proclaim a genre of music dead :P
Stace the Mace says...
utterly ridiculous indie rock is one of the biggest genres of music espescially in the UK
bobshled says...
Indie rock Pwns. But to be cool you gotta call it Alternative rock.
coomsy says...
"we’ve had the Kooks which has essentially killed indie rock" Haha thats awesome the Kooks are terrible
kone says...
i like indie and dance. hurray. (end pointless comment)
Tonto says...
Agreed, what complete crap. If you love great music, there's a good chance you're a fan of both genres, at least to some extent. Support from both 'sides' is great, like Fasterlouder (good point Rob), or the way indie website Pitchforkmedia.com gives absolutely glowing reviews of many electronic acts (Burial, Daft Punk, Portishead), and devotes dedicated space to Dubstep
Emma_doll says...
get off it. as if it is...
fat_tony says...
it's just mixmag giving tit for tat. rolling stone declared dance music dead a few years back when the scene changed. now mixmag tries to swing the pendulum back their way by saying the same shit. it's just big mags playing the tongue-in-cheek game. they're actually speaking more to each other than they're speaking to us...