quoted 3 lines Almost every new genre was innovative as it started, blending things>Almost every new genre was innovative as it started, blending things
>not blended before and giving sounds a new aroma. Keeping that aroma
>or enhancing it is the problem.
Genres are only created when a number of musical
groups or albums are retroactively placed under
a unifying moniker. The creation of a genre is
a sign of stagnation. An eddy in the forward
flow of music.
This is not a bad thing, for in these vortices
of genre specific work there is both forward and
backward motion. Genre specific works can churn
up new ideas and it is out of these eddies that
new innovative works eventually spring.
Now, if you want to start a movement and write
a manifesto, that's a whole different story.
You cannot 'start' a genre. Though it can be
seen in retrospect that you were the start of
a genre.
So, since we can only look back on genres, if you
can place a new album in a genre then it is not
substantially innovative. If you have a hard time
placing it in a genre then it may be innovative.
I should bracket all this with a small clarification
that I am talking about subgenres of techno music.
The genre of techno itself is in a much larger
framework. So by genre I mean ambient house, goa,
electro, etc.
[fletcher]