A "greater steampunk sensibility," huh? I'm still not entirely sure what that is - it's a nascent genre, I suppose, and it's being defined on a conceptual more than a musical level in many ways - by which I mean that there's steampunk electronica, steampunk industrial, steampunk that seems like nothing more than bad MIDI renditions of classical tunes... *shrug*
I can't remember; were there any cyberpunk bands, per se?
Anyway, I can't say I'm surprised that Abney Park, hailed as The First Steampunk Band(tm), have embraced the categorisation and surfed the current wave of popularity. More power to them, I guess, for finding a niche and exploiting it?
And while I can't say I've read the T&C for Sellaband in detail yet (it cannot brain, alas!), I did wonder how all that was supposed to work. It seems like multiple different systems are in place that weren't really supposed to overlap... Still, if it works, who am I to knock it?
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Date: 2008-06-13 07:26 am (UTC)I can't remember; were there any cyberpunk bands, per se?
Anyway, I can't say I'm surprised that Abney Park, hailed as The First Steampunk Band(tm), have embraced the categorisation and surfed the current wave of popularity. More power to them, I guess, for finding a niche and exploiting it?
And while I can't say I've read the T&C for Sellaband in detail yet (it cannot brain, alas!), I did wonder how all that was supposed to work. It seems like multiple different systems are in place that weren't really supposed to overlap... Still, if it works, who am I to knock it?