What The Data Really Says About Electronic Music in 2026

[ghettosynth]

Speed garage is having a resurgence?

i feel so old...don't even know what that is...i remember the first garage...where craig david at?...elton john said he was gonna be the biggest star in the UK

Do do do do dodoot, di doot.

[bermudagold]

Speed garage is having a resurgence?

i feel so old...don't even know what that is...i remember the first garage...where craig david at?...elton john said he was gonna be the biggest star in the UK

It was garage at the tempo of dnb. Not really my thing, but was quite interesting.

oh apparently I just missed the first iteration back in the 90s...wasn't paying attention

[Gamma-UT]

Speed garage is having a resurgence?

It's basically next up on the 25-30 year revival rule (kids find stuff in their parents' record collection and give it a whirl). We've already had jungle and early DnB-inspired artists coming through like Nia Archives with the old hands like Goldie and Photek playing the summer festivals.

Nia Archives is going a bit more poppy now and her songwriting is pretty good. The new album sounds like it could probably be squeezed into the speed garage genre because of it. Record-label types tried really hard to push it the last time around because it takes a lot of the rough edges off DnB and lets them repackage material easily. Let's face it, the big speed garage hit anyone can remember was Spin Spin Sugar.

[vurt]

data mmm.

[Milkman]

This is mind-numbing, soul-crushing nonsense. None of these "insights" are real, and if you know anything about how such insights are created and/or you know anything about the actual, current state of western economies, you know that 1) they are contracting, slowing("traditional tools down") and experiencing mass layoffs, and 2) that a small number of vendors, like a snake eating its own tail, are forced to CONSTANTLY consume "tokens" and participate in ai slop, offering some "data insights" through slop-driven postings like the above.

I once worked for market and political research, and I spent a lot of time understanding how corporations and politicians literally bend statistical research to create illusions about what people want, the direction "everyone is moving", etc, so as to substantiate an opinion, and we arent even talking about "push polls" or their modern "analytics" counterparts.

Art is a human behavior, not a product, and you should feel shame for attempting to bring this into our spaces.