Rustie - Flash Back

Name: Rustie - Flash Back
Uploaded: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released on 10 October 2011 as track two of Rustie's debut album Glass Swords on Warp Records, 'Flash Back' emerged during a watershed moment for UK electronic music. Glasgow producer Russell Whyte had spent years developing a sound fusing 16-bit video-game aesthetics, Japanese prog-rock, grime, Detroit techno, trance, and trap into a…

2011 · Post-Dubstep Maximalism / Early Hyperpop Precursor (2011) · music video

2011Post-Dubstep Maximalism / Early Hyperpop Precursor (2011)UK Post-Dubstep / Maximalist Electronic Underground (Glasgow-London axis, 2009–2013)

What this video is

Released on 10 October 2011 as track two of Rustie's debut album Glass Swords on Warp Records, 'Flash Back' emerged during a watershed moment for UK electronic music. Glasgow producer Russell Whyte had spent years developing a sound fusing 16-bit video-game aesthetics, Japanese prog-rock, grime, Detroit techno, trance, and trap into a maximalist whole that critics struggled to categorise. Glass Swords received a…

Why it matters

As part of Glass Swords, 'Flash Back' is a document of a pivotal pre-hyperpop maximalist moment in UK electronic music. Rustie's euphorically digital, genre-agnostic production approach — predating PC Music's aesthetic codification — makes this video a key artefact of the post-dubstep…

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