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lord-b
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can u help define this genre of electronic music: 'electro'? |
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I am writing a CD review for school and am trying to define the unmistakable sound of electro.
Electro, i have always thought, is a genre of electronic music: stripped back with percussive sound effects... i need help describing it, maybe you can help 
I've got a week till it's due and would appreciate any feedback + get a kick out of chatting about this and other stuff eg. i just got a mac g4 with pro-tools, reason & live and am just getting my head around it all and studying contempory music - technical production. The teachers are great but unfortunately, being older than myself haven't been exposed to much 'interesting' electronic music it seems. I can't blame them for not finding much in todays charting hip hop but thus find little alternative to rock & roll.
Being a bit of a music slut i dig this too but what about ... ......... |
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jkn
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| I popped a reply up on the "introduce yourself" forum. Might not be terribly helpful. |
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paul e.
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electro ia a term that has many meanings...
currently electro refers to a genre that is characterized by vintage drum machine rythms, sparse vintage synth arps and sometimes vocals[deadpanned almost robot like]...ths genre is sometimes called 'electroclash'..examples currently would be 'Peaches'.. 'Fischerspooner'
It can also refer to the electronic music of the mid-80's to early 90's..'electro-funk'....breakdancing music was born from this genre...lots of 808 beats...
however, there is a larger scope to the meaning of the word electro...
basically meaning- any electronic music..
i think mosc can elaborate on that more
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mosc
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Sudden is hipper to this stuff than I.
I posted something in the introduce yourself topic.
BTW, It's best not to cross post in these forums. I need to install a mod program to allow me to merge threads. Yikes, I just got something else to do.  |
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Norm Vogel
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I agree with Paul..... |
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| paul aka sudden wrote: |
currently electro refers to a genre that is characterized by vintage drum machine rythms, sparse vintage synth arps and sometimes vocals[deadpanned almost robot like]...ths genre is sometimes called 'electroclash'..examples currently would be 'Peaches'.. 'Fischerspooner'
It can also refer to the electronic music of the mid-80's to early 90's..'electro-funk'....breakdancing music was born from this genre...lots of 808 beats...
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I would define "electro" as robotic music, utilising vocoders, percussive beats....very "machine-like" or "robotic"......like some of the very early Kraftwerk......
Also, Meat Beat Manifesto had a song called "I am electro" that had a metallic voice, mechanised percussion, etc.
It's kind of hard to put "labels" or "catagories" on electronic music......there are soooooo many that oft-times a piece will fit into SEVERAL.
For example, "EMB" ("Electronic Body Music") now refers to most European E-music, but, originally, it meant that electrodes were attached to the performer's body, and their skin resistance (GSR) as they moved around, caused the pitch, volume, filtering, etc to change.
In a sense, the theremin is "WIRELESS EBM"!
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paul e.
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Re: I agree with Paul..... |
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| Norm Vogel wrote: |
For example, "EMB" ("Electronic Body Music") now refers to most European E-music, but, originally, it meant that electrodes were attached to the performer's body, and their skin resistance (GSR) as they moved around, caused the pitch, volume, filtering, etc to change.
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interesting, i always wondered about the origin of EBM
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http://www.ishkur.com/features/music/index.htm#
"ishkur's guide to electronic music"
-this will answer your questions, and make you laugh your ass off. it has examples and the links from one genre to another. look at all the kinds of trance! all sound excatly the same to me! |
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¬a]e o|¬e
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boom chi boom - boomchiboom
boom chi boom - boomchi tsss
boom chi boom - boomchiboom
boom chi boom - boomchibobo
thats electro.
I've always made techno........ apparently in 2000 breakbeat techno 2001 it was electronic breakbeat ...in 2002 electrobreaks.... in 2003....idm....2004...breakcore 2005 back to the originalelectro........
....i don't care anymore .....
my advice don't worry about any of that ... just make your own up like chavbass or intelligent skat ....etc  |
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mosc
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Just remember electro-music is not necessarily electro. 
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Stanley Pain
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| ¬a]e o|¬e wrote: | boom chi boom - boomchiboom
boom chi boom - boomchi tsss
boom chi boom - boomchiboom
boom chi boom - boomchibobo
thats electro.
I've always made techno........ apparently in 2000 breakbeat techno 2001 it was electronic breakbeat ...in 2002 electrobreaks.... in 2003....idm....2004...breakcore 2005 back to the originalelectro........
....i don't care anymore .....
my advice don't worry about any of that ... just make your own up like chavbass or intelligent skat ....etc |
i quite like strum'n'bass.
steer clear of intelligent skat. any night that starts in a barn in somerset drinking snakebite made with scrumpy and real ale is gonna end in tears. |
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