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Venus in Aquarius

Experimental, detached, futuristic. These musicians hear sounds from tomorrow — electronic pioneers, avant-garde provocateurs, artists who would rather invent a genre than join one. Their beauty is cerebral and strange, and it often takes years for everyone else to catch up.

What does Venus in Aquarius mean?

Venus in Aquarius is the placement of the artist who arrived from somewhere else. Aquarius's relationship to beauty is conceptual before it is sensory — these musicians tend to hear music as a system, a set of relationships and rules that can be followed or broken, and their most characteristic work is the work that breaks the rules in a way that reveals why the rules existed. They are often ahead of their moment by a margin that makes them invisible until suddenly they are the template everyone is working from.

This is a placement that tends to produce cult artists and visionaries rather than immediate hits. Venus in Aquarius musicians are often more comfortable with ideas than with feelings, and their emotional expression tends to be oblique, architectural, arriving through structure rather than declaration. The detachment can be its own intimacy — a kind of radical honesty about the distance between two people that turns out to describe the distance inside each of them. Listeners with Venus in Aquarius tend to be loyal in exact proportion to how strange the music is.

Musicians with Venus in Aquarius: Akira Rabelais, Alex Somers, Anni Hogan, Art Taylor, Bill Orcutt, Black Chamber, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Charles Stepney, and 103 more.

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