Tuesday 29 March 2011

90s' SUBCULTURES




☣Cyber Goths☣

    Subculture that started in 90s’ influenced by the British techno/rave/trance styles combined with a part of metal and rock music. Others believe it as Cybergoth= Cyberpunk+Goth
      They use the sign of biohazard.
  They go to special clubs where they listen to noise, ebm and cybergoth and dance "industrial dance".

  The dress-code is unisex with destroyed fishnets, vinyl-fabric clothes, neon colors, dreadlocks and cyberlocks and corsets. Really often used biohazard masks as well cyber goggles. High platform boots or military boots.
Weird colorful fluorescent make up and same color fluffy boots is really common in this style.
In Camden town there are 
many shops with that kind of clothing. The most famous 
is “Cyberdog” that opened 
in the middle 90s' and 
started with a kind of trans fashion and it is located 
in the Camden Stables.















☢Industrial☢

Their ideology includes parts of Nazis and Hitler. Many of them are racists and it is not rare for skinheads to try a more extreme look and becoming a part of the industrial subculture.
It is based on industrial music that is made from industrial noises. It is similar to Cybergoth but it is not such dancing kind.



They use vinyl and leatherette fabrics too. The colors are darker and most of them are black. They use to shave their eyebrows and draw them on as cybergoths . Many of them are linked with BDSM✖ style and use the same kind of corsets and general outfit.


Music:





Rivethead

This subculture is a sub-genre of Industrial Music scene. It exists since 1990s'. These who belong to Rivethead listen to industrial music but they style is militaristic with hints of protective gear that normally was a part of an assembly worker's appearance. Also they used to have many tattoos, piercings and scarification.




☠Emo☠


They started in the middle 80s’ but they became widely known in early 90s’. This subculture started with the hardcore punk music, they adopted the alternative rock style in both sound and style and then created the emocore and screamo music which is similar to hardcore. Usually the lyrics are about a “black world”, pain, suicide and deep love.
Emo originated in America (Washington) and became well known in Europe after 2000.
Its style refers more to teens that are parted in emo and scene and their appearance differs from place to place.
Emos (as style) use to wear more black clothes, stripes, jeans and simple t-shirts as well converse. They usually dye their hair black or light blond/white.
Scene use to wear more colorful clothes and have really colorful hair.
Both of them paint their eyes black and have many piercings. The most of those who belong to this subculture tend to be anorexic or bulimic.












Mathcore 


    They started existing in early 90s' from North America, although the first music album that supported that style was published in 1984. This is a rythmicaly complex and dissonant style of metalcore. Its term is suggested by analogy with math rock as both of them use unusual time signatures. People who belong to this subculture dress with black simple t shirts, jeans and sport shoes or arvils. They use to have not as long hair as metalcores have.














 Otherkin 




    People who belong to this community believe that they are not humans. They are relates with therian, vampire and draconic subcultures. They have the heptagram as their symbol. Some Otherkins claim that they can shapeshift mentally. Its existance is told to be made through reincarnation, having a nonhuman soul, ancestry or symbolic metaphor.
Despite the fact that this ideology is existing hundred years now, the first Internet resource that is found about it is "Elfinkind Digest" and is dated back in 1990 by a student at the University of Kentucky. Since then it became well known and later many game designers used it to make game characters and make people get easier associated with them. The younger Otherkin subculture has based its development on some elven online communities of the early 90s.














Riot Grrrl


 This is an underground feminist pink subculture that started from Washington in the middle of 90s' and it is associated with third-wave feminism. Riot Grrrl bands have usuallu issues such as rape, domestic abuse, sexuality and female empowerment. Some of them are Bikini Kill, Bratmobile and Frumpies such as lesbian queencore like Team Dresch. Ladies who are called Riot Grrrls are more involved in art and politics than other women of their era and can also be characterized of having activism and holding meetings, starting chapters and getting supported and organized in music.




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