Most of UR's stuff would be classified as techno, but they have definately made
some excursions into electro
Rob
www.componentrecords.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Ross Balmer <ross@tui.co.uk>
To: IDM <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] Electro As IDM
quoted 95 lines For me, being into electro is more of a regression (though not at all an> For me, being into electro is more of a regression (though not at all an
> unpleasant one!). I was into hip-hop at the time it first appeared and on
> the radio shows I listened to they played a lot of electro too, which I
> actually preferred in retrospect although I wasn't so clear about the
> distinction at the time.
>
> As for UR being electro, I sometimes wonder if making this retrospective
> distinction between techno and electro is a good thing. UR did much to
> define what techno is for me and I find it hard to suddenly consider it to
> be some other kind of music. UR has always been always futurist in it's
> outlook and the current interest in electro is essentially retro in nature.
>
> (And I strongly suggest going out and buying every UR release you can get!)
>
> Ross.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nuutti-Iivari Meriläinen" <gordon@populo.vip.fi>
> To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 11:29 AM
> Subject: [idm] Electro As IDM
>
>
>
> Hullo All,
>
> for the past years I've been starting to lean more and more towards
> electro than the artists commonly discussed on the list. I am quite
> certain that this is a natural progression for me, from the early
> A.R.T./GPR/New Electronica/Likemind et al. sound through the harsher
> Warp (Autechre, Phoenecia)/Skam/Markant etc. phase (where some rhythm
> elements are definitely electro - just listen to ``Basscadet'') to what I
> am buying more and more nowadays: Yunx, Jega, Phoenecia, Datathief and so
> on. I have also been compelled to buy some pure electro-plays, like SCSI
> and other similar labels.
>
> Someone else besides me has to have noticed the recent uprising of
> neo-disco in the form of labels like Gigolo and artists like Zombie Nation
> with their roots deeply in the sewers of Hague and ears on the wall of
> Moroder and disco - and that labels like RePHLeX jumped on that bandwagon
> well before the genre was brought into mainstream attention (just listen
> to DMX Krew and Cylob's ``Rewind'' and ``Sex Machine''). Speaking of
> RePHLeX, there are some really, _really_ good (yet somewhat
> disturbing) electro tracks on their back catalogue, mostly Cylob and Mike
> Dred (and of course Drexciya and Dynamix II)).
>
> I think this has been a fluid transition from the almost too abstract
> rhythm programming on recent Autechre releases to the crisp (and
> sometimes even melodic) yet not straightforward electro on records like
> Jega's ``Geometry'', Yunx/Datathief split EP on Pitchcadet, more
> experimental sound on Elektrolux (one of my current absolute favourite
> labels), Phoenecia's ``Odd Jobs'' and ``Randa Roomet'', Team Doyobi's
> ``Pushchairs For Grown Ups'' - and the harsher, noisier chapter of Speedy
> J's ``IEEE Mitten Menu'' and ``Pannik''. I'm still quite reserved in my
> foray into electro - I have not run to buy every UR record there is, but
> Carl Finlow and some others really have grabbed my attention with their
> nonstandard electro sound. I still have mixed feelings towards the
> neo-disco movement for a reason I'm unable to grasp, though. It is fun yet
> I wouldn't listen to it at home.
>
> A second point is the rise of the lo-bit electro movement - people using
> C-64's and other 4-8-bit equipment to produce (mostly) electro. There was
> a whiff of that on RePHLeX with the release on Bodenstandig 2000's ``Maxi
> German Rave Blast Hits 3'' and Lektrogirl's ``I Love My Computer'' and the
> more recent releases like Tero's ``First Blood'' on Rikos Records (I have
> seen this guy perform _live_ with two C-64's - absolutely fabulous -
> go get his first release (RIKOS003) _now_) and 8-bit Rockers (I don't
> know if it's out yet). I'm not too keen on the lo-bit circuit (with the
> exception of Tero), but it really is gaining momentum (or I'm just late to
> observe).
>
> (Rikos Records will release a Lackluster 7" soon.)
>
> So what am I aiming at? Probably to claim that electro in its new forms
> should be regarded as IDM (the concept, not a genre). Any takers? Ideas?
> Am I totally off the mark here?
>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> nuutti-iivari meriläinen gordon at diversion dot org
> http colon slash slash www dot diversion dot org slash
>
>
>
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