That’s it. That’s the post. Screengaze will be the new thing. Producers, I want to hear from you.
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computer music + shoegaze = screengaze
— kyrsive (@kyrsive) August 17, 2024
(Maybe this term existed before; one reader commented that it had, and there’s the slightest hint on last.fm that someone was trying to make it happen. But it clearly needs the modern Internet to become real.
And if you missed out on hit ’em somehow, even NPR was onto that:
The sound of the summer came to electronic musician Drew Daniel in a dream
There is a compilation project, too:
We are VERY excited to announce that we’ll be collaborating with @Machine_Drum & @DDDrewDaniel to make the “hit em” dream into reality
— Tabula Rasa (@TabulaRasaRcrds) August 6, 2024
It’s been so cool to hear what everyone has been making & we’re stoked to hear more!
Send submissions to hit.em.comp@gmail.com by end of August https://t.co/ag1YEuFzyQ
But time moves on. (I’m still pondering whether to do a hit ’em round-up, even though it feels like it’s already over.) So now it’s time to invent screengaze.
Alternatively, join the genre we made up earlier today (via someone I follow making something crazy sounding with VCV Rack):
yes, I dub it "skwirble"
— peterkirn (@peterkirn) August 19, 2024
Feature image (CC-BY) Slava, via Flickr.