the core point of music is the ideas, the concepts, the thoughts, the plans, the settings, the framework, the road, the politics, the ideologies, that are behind it. make no mistake. there can be an idea, and / or an ideology found behind every piece of music. this is exactly what makes most of todays breakcore, hardcore, IDM, or intelligent techno, discofunk, and all the other "names", so awkward, so boring, so shameful. the ideology behind it - sucks. it is usually capitalist, ultra-capitalist, hyper-consumist, conformist, authoritarian - hierarchic, oppressive and weakening. one for the feeble minded. oh, you don't believe me? check the average lyric of all the "hip" clubbing music todays - cues to expensive clothes, shopping, luxury lifestyle, life of the rich, of the famous, most socially elevated clubs whose bouncers don't let you in, and such. and you want to tell me this is not ultra-capitalist music? oh, it's 'ironic'? it doesn't seem very ironic to me. if the nazi party says they're ironic, would that make them ironic? no, it would more appear as a cop-out. the same goes for our capitalist techno producers. or take breakcore. how many clues to anarchism and rebellion are in your average breakcore track - as opposed to clues to star wars, boring 70s disco, all sorts of capitalist pop culture trash? maybe a 1:10.000 ratio.
okay, so i get it all wrong? then tell me, what is the ideology behind pop breakcore and club techno? there is none? nonsense! there is always an idea and intellectual structure behind a piece of art. if you don't know this, you don't know art.
now, this raises an interesting point. because these types of producers actually *do* spend a lot of energy to cover the tracks. to declare their "art" to be beyond "petty" things such as politics, anarchism, uprising, ideologies - 'ideologies are a thing of the past'. but let me assure you, they produce indeed very ideological music, that is full of politics. they hide it, so they don't have to expose their actual politics, so people don't realise what a boring revamp of reaganism, 80s yuppie pop overkill, and hardline reactionary crap their political agenda is.
the point that this music is without ideology doesn't work because you can't have music without politics, or ideology, or ideas.
also, politics, ideas, anarchism, and social struggles are not "petty" things that would taint art; these are what give greatness to art, are greater things, and art without them - if it doesn't have a better idea to offer - would be very weak and small art indeed.
also, this explains why there is a gap of people who adored the experimental hard genres in former years, like breakcore and speedcore and hardcore, and those who do now.
because the original hardcore and breakcore had an anarchist, or individualist, radical mindset, that was dangerous, eager to change society, intented to rip through social rules, to be powerful and insurgent. music intented to change peoples life.
in what way does contemporary breakcore intend to change people's life? to the better? to - an utopian state?
hell, it can't even help their listeners to get out of their shitty jobs.
so the people who listened to the original hardcore were people attracted to this; individualists, rebels, freethinkers, anarchist, ruffians.
each one is attracted to music that fits to ones own ideology and thoughtset.
but, again, there is light on the horizon. there might be a comeback of anarchist politics - of utopia, of rebellion, of insurgency - to the hardcore music, to the hardcore places. and this time, it will blow everyone away.
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