On 31 Jan 1998, idm-digest wrote:
quoted 3 lines Why is it that guitars and electronic music just don't go together?> Why is it that guitars and electronic music just don't go together?
> For some reason whenever a guitar comes in on an electronic track
> it just sounds pretty cheesy...
In addition to the other reasons mentioned, guitars are a code for some
ideas that are very difficult to integrate into an electronic aesthetic
(if they're not 100% incompatible)--such as, good old-fashioned
authenticity, defiant working-class hero kind of stuff (or the much
cheesier sort of overblown, insecure "masculinity" found in hair-metal
bands of the 80's). This might be part of why Kent suggested that the most
successful uses of guitar in electronic music depend on the avoidance of
standard guitar formulas--b/c the formulas themselves become part of that
"image," which has no place in this kind of music (except maybe an ironic
one).
For what it's worth-- J
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