Neoterika is a monthly music show dedicated to uncovering and sharing amazing music flying under the radar. This is our blog. Time to wax lyrical about why we exist.
The internet has given a lot to modern music – we watch as the idea of adhering to a single genre fades away, leaving boundaries dissolved and possibilities endless. The rise of the micro-scene and the fall of the mass movement monolith along with the easy connectivity of anybody anywhere allows for collaboration and experimentation that would have been impossible in any other era. Producers, bands and artists of all kinds can create whatever they want, upload it to the ether and there are billions of people who from there could potentially consume it.
On the other hand, to a large extent it’s stolen the slow burn, that gradual progression from amateur creation to public performance and along with it the idea of music as tangible and important art that requires effort and investment to create. Things move at a pace that can make music seem ephemeral, even trivial. Is this just another flash in the pan? Will it endure? Personally I’m not sure if that matters. My early teenage years were defined by a series of scene obsessions picked up and discarded with lightning speed. Today’s love of my musical life could be looked upon with derision a month later – but fast forward all these years later and the great tracks from every single one of these forgotten loves retains the ability to make my heart beat faster and a joyous grin plaster itself across my face. The immersion was often fleeting but the bangers endure. My attitude is fuck context, how does this sound?
The other issue with the internet is it’s bloody big. Just…so….much…stuff. Some of it (loads of it) is rubbish, but inevitably wonderful artists get lost in the sheer immensity of information, slip through the spaces between the threads of the web.
It’s with all this in mind we started Neoterika. I kept stumbling across incredible tracks with criminally few listens and eventually decided they deserved to be compiled and shared – played through in their entirety and mixed up with no regard for genre and an assumption that the people who’d want to listen to such a thing will be open minded and up for experimentation.
So that’s us.
You can listen to the show by following the link below, and I’ll be writing stuff here about music and culture and that from time to time.
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