I think there is something to be said for all this electronic music business. People don’t traverse huge expanses of land for nothing. And yes, granted, it may not be the first time it has happened…in the seventies it was bands like zeppelin and floyd, in the nineties grunge took centre stage. But this is the here, the now of it all, and I think it is important to take note of what the youth of today’s generation is listening to. How music that is performed with no instruments, with minimal vocal inflection, and all stems from some electronic boxes placed upon a literal pedestal before thousands, while a single being acts as master puppeteer before them is nothing short of an unembellished mindfuck.
There is something in these chords and synths that induces a real trancelike state; so primal in nature that it is impossible for the body to ignore. The subconscious is free to surface into an environment of pure love and the contact high that results from exposed nerves connecting with that energy is an unexplainable feeling. The world just seems right. Your soul soars. It is religious in more ways that any other traditionally spiritual ceremony I have encountered. The chi, the karma, the aura (whathaveyou) that envelopes such a scenario is so authentic that the manufactured tribulations of everyday life suddenly come to feel shamefully superfluous. In what other world can you feel so closely united to thousands of people you have never even met? The collective force is unstoppable, the beats pulsating through your body a rhythmic force that cannot be denied, that cannot help but induce the bouncing of a foot, the swaying of the hips. Lips and fingertips burn to be kissed and caressed, the overflow from such a colossally intimate interaction so abundant that you can’t help but crave it.
With stars in our eyes we go on, searching for truths we don’t even know we seek. Listening to music that unconsciously changes us, that makes all others redundant and opens our hearts and minds to the possibility of artistic expressions greater than the mundane we have chosen to accept.
There is something in these chords and synths that induces a real trancelike state; so primal in nature that it is impossible for the body to ignore. The subconscious is free to surface into an environment of pure love and the contact high that results from exposed nerves connecting with that energy is an unexplainable feeling. The world just seems right. Your soul soars. It is religious in more ways that any other traditionally spiritual ceremony I have encountered. The chi, the karma, the aura (whathaveyou) that envelopes such a scenario is so authentic that the manufactured tribulations of everyday life suddenly come to feel shamefully superfluous. In what other world can you feel so closely united to thousands of people you have never even met? The collective force is unstoppable, the beats pulsating through your body a rhythmic force that cannot be denied, that cannot help but induce the bouncing of a foot, the swaying of the hips. Lips and fingertips burn to be kissed and caressed, the overflow from such a colossally intimate interaction so abundant that you can’t help but crave it.
With stars in our eyes we go on, searching for truths we don’t even know we seek. Listening to music that unconsciously changes us, that makes all others redundant and opens our hearts and minds to the possibility of artistic expressions greater than the mundane we have chosen to accept.
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