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From: "Vaclav Vanek" <vaclav_vanek@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:09:21 -0800
quoted 1 line electronica has become too easy.>electronica has become too easy.
i agree with this, inasmuch as a lot of styles of music have
become too easy. so much has been thought of for people
already, too many people can make a few simple choices and
churn out something in any given genre. whatever you want to do,
you have only to look at what's been done, copy the blueprints, and
spit out a new version of the old. but today's software makes this
much easier in electronic music. it seems pop is not the only
music that will eat itself.
quoted 1 line i personally feel the electronic scene is dead>i personally feel the electronic scene is dead
and here we are back to dualism...rock is dead vs. electronic is
dead. or perhaps it's more complex than that. it highlights once
again the overdependency on genres, which you touched upon
("move a kick drum and you have a new genre" indeed! bravo for
that). this leads to such rash generalizations, when really we need
to look not so much at trends and titles but individual artists, or
even pieces.
perhaps i'm so willing to jump into the fray in regards to this
two-party system of rock vs. electronic because my own band is a
hybrid, and many artists i like are as well. in fact, many seem to
have forgotten rock itself was originally a hybrid of country/western
and rhythm-and-blues, two genres that, especially because of their
social (read: racial) divisions, couldn't have seemed more unalike
to people at the time.
similarly, what we call "IDM" is also a hybrid of electronic music
styles, or at least a collection of genres (since it is not even a true
genre as we were reminded here recently).
perhaps one day someone will come up with a reasonable and
popular genre name for the rock/electro hybrid. although, given the
eventual "death" of every genre that has a name, perhaps we
should all be glad no one has yet.
d.
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