The aggressive house scene is a relatively new and unknown avenue of the electronic music industry. Now it seems that the genre’s time may be up before it has the chance to reach the mainstream after fifty clubbers were hospitalised following a recent event.
The incident happened in Detroit’s TV Lounge, during a set by aggressive house pioneer, DJ Flicknife, when rioting broke out amongst the small, yet angry crowd. Police blamed the musical genre, which is predominantly made up of explosions, gunshots, screams and racial and homophobic slurs set to a 4/4 beat, on inciting the violence.
Club promoter Simon Peterson spoke to Wunderground earlier, “We’ve been massive fans of the aggressive house scene ever since it emerged here in Detroit late last year.”
“It’s proved to be really popular with the city’s [Detroit] youth, who are angry with the current economic climate and the their treatment by the government, they see aggressive house events as the perfect way to blow off steam by beating the living shit out of each other,” explained Peterson. “It’s just unfortunate that some of them had to be pussies about it and go to hospital, which is totally against the aggressive house credo, now everything’s up in the air.”
The genre hasn’t featured too heavily in the UK market just yet with the only reported aggressive house nights held by UKIP councilors who reportedly love the genre for its racist slurs in spite of it “not being from here”.
Authorities are considering a blanket ban on aggressive house although some parties are considering integrating the genre with EDM in an attempt to “toughen up the little twerps” who frequent EDM shows.
A source at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital has confirmed there are no life threatening injuries with most patients suffering minor ailments such as concussion, broken noses and beer bottles shoved up arses.
