Glum Electronica

I know we've had the "soft sad techno" thread, and this might just be me finding things where they aren't, but, is there now a burgeoning trend for glumness in dance music? I'm thinking about things like "Limit To Your Love", Darkstar, Art Department's "Without You". The latter is so morose it kind of just sucks any joy out of me, and yet feels cathartic. I don't know how it would feel to hear this on a dancefloor somehow, but it's right at the top of Mixmag's EOY list and is mooted as a singalong.

Is this a "thing" now, or has it always been about?

thanks to all of you in advance for not coining "glumtronica"

Believe me, I was sorely tempted but my retarded-genre-coining gland is playing up.

Is "Night Air" supposed to sound like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UFobfP3FkQ&feature=related
?

dog latin strikes again. not only is this not remotely a "burgeoning trend" or new thing or whatever we have at least one thread already devoted to it soft sad techno

wait is there another band called Art Department besides the post-punk super sped-up Art Dept. from Baltimore?

There's a house duo from Toronto that have are using that name, too.

Xpost: Mention of the Soft-Sad techno thread was the very first thing said in this post (it doesn't help that thread has turned into a waste dump). But yeah, i don't see it as something particular to a certain time. I tend to associate it most with early 00's Lawrence, carrying on with Pantha Du Prince, etc. In any case, there's never enough of this stuff, and you won't find me complaining if this sound blows up.

For reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG8u9Lm2g0k

I don't find Pantha Du Prince etc glum in this way - that stuff is soft and kinda sad but also kind of pretty and uplifting. The Art Department track takes no prisoners in its glumness. It punishes.

Maybe the main difference is that the recent stuff is vocal house with a deeply down lyric. I like it though.

house & techno has been soft & sad from day one, uh, hello larry heard?

but you don't really mean soft & sad, do you?

you want techno records that aspire to be adam and the ants?

the worst genre of all time

Micro-goth

You mean best, right?

http://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/dj-dog-latin-the-sound-of-glum/

Mix I made after starting this thread.

There ain't a lot of talk about Art Department on this board. "Without You" was one of my favourite jams from last year. Didn't know whether to start a thread or not, as they have a new album out and from what I've heard it's very much in the same vein - disco house with "downlifting" vocals (to coin a phrase).

Anyone else liking this?