Retrotalk: "There Is No Sound of the 2020s" versus "The Future Is Not Lost" versus "21st Century as Cultural Void?"

🫧 Open on Bubbles A flurry of recent debate on the topic of cultural stagnation versus "the future is alive and well actually!" Here's an interesting article by Gabriel Szatan at Resident Advisor from a few weeks ago It starts with a electronic dance festival experience that feels blocked and static: But by some deadening alchemy, the sets smushed into a homogenous paste, largely indistinguishable in tempo and tone. From this, Szatan extrapolates to a general pervasive feeling of being stuck on a 7 out of 1