Thanks to the miracle of the internet, we now live in an accelerated era. Cycles of hype that once took years to play out—the arc of an artists’ career, for instance—now run their course in a matter of weeks. Few corners of the world are as concerned with keeping up than we are here in the music industry, with our insatiable thirst for the Next Big Thing.
One symptom of an accelerated lifestyle is the endless proliferation of ridiculous subgenres: refresh your SoundCloud in a few minutes and you’re likely to see a new label like fluffstep, pookeydonk, or chungleblink slide into your feed. Like the silly genre descriptors of decades past, these too will soon be lost to the ages, and I’d like to take this moment to commemorate some of my favorites from the 90s and 00s before they are completely written out of history—from absurdist in-jokes to acquired tastes.
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Frog house
OK, fine. Frog house really only consisted of one duo, an early Mad Decent signing called Toadally Krossed Out. Their most recent single is a hardcore electro-rap anthem that features your favorite extraterrestrial drug dealer troll, Riff Raff, but their first foray into the blogosphere was 2009’s “Toads Theme,” which sampled both frog noises and the Cowboy Bebop theme. It was rumored to be the side project of two world-famous DJs-gone-anonymous, and because there is not one interview with them online, nor any photos of them without frog masks on (or shirts, for that matter), we may never know the truth.
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