Lorenzo Senni - The Shape of Trance to Come

Name: Lorenzo Senni - The Shape of Trance to Come
Uploaded: 2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released September 29, 2017 on Warp Records as part of the two-track 12" XAllegroX / The Shape Of Trance To Come, this track represents a key document in Senni's ongoing 'rave voyeurism' project. The title directly references Ornette Coleman's 1959 landmark The Shape Of Jazz To Come, positioning Senni's Roland JP-8000-driven pointillist…

2017 · Post-Internet Electronica / Warp Records Second Wave (2017) · music video

Lorenzo Senni - The Shape of Trance to Come music video

2017Post-Internet Electronica / Warp Records Second Wave (2017)Post-rave deconstructionism / Warp Records electronica avant-garde (2010s)

What this video is

Released September 29, 2017 on Warp Records as part of the two-track 12" XAllegroX / The Shape Of Trance To Come, this track represents a key document in Senni's ongoing 'rave voyeurism' project. The title directly references Ornette Coleman's 1959 landmark The Shape Of Jazz To Come, positioning Senni's Roland JP-8000-driven pointillist trance deconstructions within a lineage of avant-garde genre manifestos. Senni…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of 2010s pointillist trance deconstruction — a micro-genre Senni effectively invented — in which the formal vocabulary of 1990s rave music (Roland JP-8000 arpeggios, euphoric build structures) is surgically isolated and held suspended, never resolving into the drop. The video's…

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