Since the mid-80s and 90s especially in the formations that can be said, somehow, posthuman, multiply, perhaps dispelling the deepest spirit of precursors. Or rather, if we look at the appearance posthumanism extremist, that is not to stop and reached a result, but to shift attention immediately "over", we are forced to make a strong selection of musicians and albums. Continuously raised the dissemination and integration of new music, especially electronic, and new musical instruments in more areas of music (think of the new wave , all 'hip-hop , the new age, to dance ) until not even take it over (born the 'electro the trip-hop, new age electronics and, finally, the techno ).
characteristic of the 90s is the realization of all a series of crossover between rock and electronic scene. The post-rock, hard to identify, is based on a non-linear tracks and unstructured ( Stereolab, The Wire , Morphine, Main ), to the magnificent synthesis of lyric Radiohead .
Surely though, the scene in turmoil over this period (and, moreover, that most post-human) is the one that kicks off the festivities acidhouse in warehouses: the rave . Their organization in times and places and illegal drug-taking will provide a definitive separation between government and young people. During these parties is not uncommon for the performance and body artists, fire eaters and especially remote-controlled robot and performance even with machinery and flamethrowers. Specimens are Survival Research Laboratory since 1978 in San Francisco's legendary design and build machines destructiveness and horror, sometimes integrating with cadaverous waste of animals. Fire-breathing dragons, machines, explosive, big catapults, incendiary fighting machines, which emit loud sounds, shows dangerous to the public: their work is called "art of destruction." In Europe, the 80s are the Mutoid Waste Company, whose works are close to the sculpture: they are real and its travelers, who live in caravans and gruesome bus, touring the South of Europe with unlikely they built cars that can circulate only with special permission. The Robot Group rises in 1989 and is composed of artists, engineers and technicians who make machines more "human" than mechanical. Shrinking Robot Heads is an orchestra of robots playing and industrial trash, producing chaotic music. The group makes fun of the robots of science fiction films, making fun of space missions and so-called smart weapons.
more strictly musical projects that emerge from the rave scene are the Orbital (since 1991) Eat Static's and Aphex Twin (since 1995), the Prodigy (since 1996), who imposed a dizzying pace techno to punk rock, the Chemical Brothers (since 1996). Finally, special mention for the Finns Panasonic (1996, 1999 by Pan Sonic for losing the "a" which gave so much to the annoyance known company), authors of minimalism electronoise cold and ruthless, he dusted off all the forgotten scene power-electronics.
In the field of rock and pop, from a certain characteristic of the traditional spectacle of music, will be reborn a certain attitude posthuman. If Bjork we find it so stated (see the video of All is Full of Love ) and certain transformations, the champion of the posthuman in today's world of music (and, dare I, neo Bowie) is certainly Marilyn Manson , which already includes the choice of the name is a hybrid woman / man and good / evil. Example is the cover of her album Mechanical Animals in 1998 that retracts ciberandrogino, ie the three components, male, female and artificial).
Today posthuman music (if we want to call it) there is perhaps even more than in past years, but is holed up in the so-called underground, in the network of small independent labels, and even the Internet, where the site MySpace (much more than YouTube, but in decline for some years) produces musical personalities, sometimes disturbing, that sometimes even climbing the world rankings. Today, rather than wait for the next "messiah posthuman", it is interesting to look for patterns hidden in the web of those musicians and those performers who carry out the post-human thought art and music, creating (and thus adding more consistently at the time, the interactive character) his own personal compilation of music posthuman.
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