Consumationist

The more I think about where to take Electroclash (or for that matter where it will take me) in regard to the second assignment, the more I find the relationship of local and global tied in with new media and digital technologies. My initial response to the point in question was to develop a concept around the multiple local developments (specifically Berlin, Munich and New York) in relation to the simultaneous global proliferation. Although after this weeks reading (Gibson: Free NRG) I have drawn similar conclusions about the access to digital technology and new media having significant impact on the empowerment of localised industries and their subsequent implementation into global scenarios. Especially in regard to this local empowerment and the concept of independence… and in the case of Electroclash not only artist independence but varied attempts at the empowerment of women in the face of traditional male domination of the music industry technologies. Thus it could be considered that the development of local networks has benefited from greater access to production and distribution via new technology… and that in turn has also contributed to global networking of these local groupings not dissimilar to the concept of “glocalisation”.

The ANTICON collective that resides in San Francisco is part of a more experimental approach to hiphop… sitting outside of the generally sexist and egotistic spectacular displays of hiphop, this version tends to take an almost Beat generation approach to their word-infested raps, fused into a musical constructivist ambience of everyday sounds, scattered beats and atypical sound bites.
A fantastic revolving collective of artists including themselves, dose one, alias, sole, why?, odd nosdam, jel, sage francis, cLOUDDEAD and more… political, post-modern, prolific and pushing the frayed edges way beyond the thread!

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