J Shiltz – Goner [audio]
Here today. Gone tomorrow. The machine creates artists as quick as it dismantles them. The sound changes and with the change comes a new generation with little to no insight as to what came before. The game has been diagnosed with amnesia – the worst case of it ever seen in a musical genre. Optimists will attribute this to the art forms relentless ability to reinvent itself – pessimists will chalk it up to the commodification of the music and the watering down of the message within. On a macro scale its musical evolution – on a micro scale its a dream that is forced to relentlessly transform or be rendered obsolete. This one is for the artists who stuck it out. This one is for those who chose perseverance. This is one for the Goner.