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elektro80
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 11:23 am Post subject:
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Electronic music.. ? what is that? Was Rick Wakeman doing electronic music? I have a problem with that term.. to me it sounds pretty much.. "ahhh.. I can hear people singing.. this has to be opera.." and then go.. "Johhny Cash? He sings? OK.. right.. OPERA!!!!"
Hmm.. well.. no big deal.. but I can hardly think any will ever claim that there ever was some sort of proper electronic music.. If GOD had had this in mind HE would have created mankind with patch holes... and some spare jacks to go _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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Joined: Feb 08, 2004 Posts: 489 Location: behind the mustard
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 12:20 pm Post subject:
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paul aka sudden wrote: | oh i think i get it... i think i now understand the disdain and defensiveness and frankly snobiness toward new electronic music forms
techno = low end.. ?
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think you might have jumped the gun on that one.
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i hope as i get older i do not become cycnical and isolated from the music of the youth and develop the posture of the 'good old days' and think 'our music was more real'
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I'm twenty one and I don't identify techno as music of my generation. I see it as a continuation of disco mostly associated with the depraved raver scene that's always searching for the bigger buzz. Not into that game, personally. And the music is generally repetitive with a lot of image and style worship masquerading as love of music.
There are exceptons though. And I don't mean to say the scene started that way.
I like surgeon, jeff mills and some others. And the very funky minimalist house of perlon.
I totally agree with you elektro80. why must there be a distinction between music based on the tools used to create it? Isn't it more important to distinguish music based on it's unique sonic characteristics rather than attempting to pigeon-hole everything that enters the ear into a predefined set of outdated sybmols like 'electro'? That word doesn't even mean anything anymore.
and elektro80, don't you mean "SHE"? |
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elektro80
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 12:48 pm Post subject:
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eeeeeeek... you are right.. do you think SHE noticed? _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2004 1:27 pm Post subject:
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Hmm. The term electronic music probably refers to music made with electronic instruments or circuits - like vocal music means music made with voices - or insturmental music means...
I'm old enough to remember when electronic music was squeaks and bonks. Now, I guess most music is electronic. I went to an Arabic restaurant and there was live Arabic music - played on synthesizers. It didn't have anthing of what anyone would call and "electronic" sound, but is was electronic none-the-less.
When I got interested in electronic music, it was because the electronics provided the opportunity to create new sounds that had never been heard before. As the field evolved, I became pretty disgusted that most of the new insturments were developed to create the same old sounds using electronic means.
The instrument that grossed me out the most was the drum machine. I still hate them, although I must admit they helped develop a new style of music which I don't hate. It's not the drum sounds that bother me as much as the repetitive mechanical monotonous beats, mostly canned at that. These machines were electronic instruments, but...
Still, I love electronic sounds - maybe more that ever.
I put the word experimental in the header of electro-music.com, in an attempt to try to indicate a leaning toward the more "out there" types of music. You know, the non-tonal, non-beat oriented, hard-core electronic experimental stuff. I'm glad that we have contributors from non-experimental genres. It seems we have found that the thing that binds us more than electronics or experimentation is the passion and joy we give to and take from this music. |
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