As is somewhat obvious by the lack of posting, things have been somewhat busy in the “real world” and as such I’ve taken to writing less and less about the things I see an hear. Typically I would write before work or at home, but I’ve started a new job and the new job requires, for now, quite a bit of writing in its own, so I have less time to devote to writing about music.

There has also been the creeping suspicion that I’ve not been doing the acts I’ve wanted to cover any sort of justice. The only way to get better at a thing is to do it, but the problem is that it feels as though I’m fighting dragons when I’d have trouble trying to wrestle kittens. The stuff I want to say and the stuff I think rarely makes it to the screen in any sort of acceptable or recognizable way and I think that I’m writing more words and saying less when I should be using less words to say more, but as I have had little experience outside of unrelated schooling (where I took creative writing which taught me erroneously that “more is more”).

The hardest thing about writing this blog is that there’s little feedback beyond “that’s good” or “you suck, fuck you, die!” except from the artists that I cover who are usually quite pleased with what they read. While I say that I write KotGB for my own amusement that’s not quite true.

I write about music because I’ve always loved music and have tried to take what were essentially emails to friends saying “you should listen to this here’s why” or “I saw this band you may want to see them in the future” and try to take that to a larger scale. Yet I haven’t even had time to really digest a lot of what I’m devouring.

I’m currently absolutely enthralled with the rise of new triangulation of newer, darker music which trades in traditional gothic industrial trappings even as they reject the specifics of what those genres devolved into //TENSE//, Black Bug, Black Math, Defektors, White Car and similar artists all providing a welcome antidote to the rise of -wave, dream, and -gaze acts.

That’s not even touching what’s happening in the amazing world of what’s loosely termed “post-garage” or “post-dubstep.” The genre without a name that is essentially the continuation of the UK Hardcore Diaspora, now that people are abandoning the cul-de-sac that was Dubstep and going through old genre permutations as the producers try to find the how they will move forward.

It’s as exciting as when all those DnB heads in 1999 – 2000 said “Fuck techstep, let’s rave ’til dawn” and we saw the wonderful updating of past themes and re-working of Hardcore classics which went on to eventually give us such things as Liquid (and horrible things like Drumstep, but the less said about that, the better. Seriously. Please stop mentioning it. You’re making me cry).

So this isn’t “good-bye” this is “see you in a few weeks.”

I’ll continue to post in smaller doses threads of thought at @kotgb on twitter.