#michaelangelo matos

[theblackestofsuns]

“Sign O The Times” (2010)

Michaelangelo Matos

Continuum International Publishing

[alotofconcordes]

[djscreendoor]

04.10.16

“Everything has become very genre specific but people forget that classifications are only there to help us locate things. Genres are like the borders of countries – they don’t actually exist.” - Soulwax The Rise and Fall of the Mixtape on RBMA

"Rave historian Michaelangelo Matos takes a critical look at the culture surrounding dance music...[and]...For this installment, he put together an intensive online reading course on the history of the major electronic genres, university-style." Know Your History

[roelven]

Dance Music 101: An Online Reading Course | Thump

Brush up on your knowledge of the major electronic genres with the latest installment of Off the Record.

(...) rave historian Michaelangelo Matos takes a critical look at the culture surrounding dance music—from food to clothes to design and writing. (...) he put together an intensive online reading course on the history of the major electronic genres, university-style.

Saving this for my holiday reading list this winter. Wow.

[chapelofthechimes]

What’s odd to me—no, it’s not odd, it’s depressing—is the way that rock music, particularly rock music of the 1960s and ’70s, has become the soundtrack to the reactionary right, the way it’s become the white-male right-wing revanchist soundtrack. Yeah, the way this music gets appropriated by that side of things; it kind of boggles the mind. But at the same time, it speaks to the extent to which a lot of that music has been really drained of its context, and drained of understandings of the contexts that produced it, understandings of the various political and cultural commitments of the artists that produced it...

Jack Hamilton, in "Tracing the Rock and Roll Race Problem" by Michaelangelo Matos

[nowayzinedine]

[myspiltmilknola]

“This is a real rupture,” Matos says. “One generation’s choice of music absolutely befuddles the other generations. They literally don’t get it and they don’t get that it has been brewing for quite some time.”  - Michaelangelo Matos, author of “The Underground is Massive,” talking about EDM.

[theciphershow]

Interview I did with the author of the definitive history of dance music in the U.S.