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A solemn tribute to once-hot-shit trends that (mostly) won’t be joining us in the ’10s

…1 still sounds fresh, with that same lightning-in-a-bottle feeling that Prodigy’s The Fat of the Land had nearly six years ago . . . unlike all the empty pop music you hear on mainstream radio today, this is one pop album that gets it right for once.” PopMatters on Fischerspooner, 2003
What Happened?: Electroclash never really died it just keeps renaming itself every three years. See the “electropunk” of MU, the “electropop” of the Knife, or the “wonky pop” of La Roux.

MASH-UPS
Hype Cycle: 2001 2004
Key Artists: 2 Many DJs, Freelance Hellraiser
What It Was: Putting two songs together cleverly something that legitimate DJs have been doing since the dawn of time suddenly became an OMG-worthy critical sensation once Freelance Hellraiser’s Xtina/Strokes mash-up “A Stroke Of Genie-us” became the Napster-era version of Keyboard Cat.
Creative Peak: Danger Mouse, The Grey Album…

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Music Genre Hype: Tribute to a Decade of Shitty Music Trends

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