quoted 10 lines With Techno music having evolved so rapidly - FAR more rapidly than any>> With Techno music having evolved so rapidly - FAR more rapidly than any
>> music associated with any subculture I've been involved with
>> in the past 20+ years - it will be interesting to see what stuff lasts well
>> after its present-tense "Man, that takes me right back to Ibiza" or "Wow I
>> can almost taste that E I was on when I heard <this track> at <that rave>"
>> context has disappeared
>
> I don't think you're right in using an all encompassing word such as
> "Techno" ... Kraftwerk were doing their best stuff around the time of the
> Sex Pistols, i.e., 20 years ago and what else would you call it but Techno!
I wouldn't call their old work "Techno", it's more like "Electronic" that
is the roots of what we *now know today* as "Techno". I was using the term
"Techno" in the current-day (context, context (-: ) vernacular.
quoted 2 lines Basically I don't think it's evolved rapidly at all. Progressed yes, with> Basically I don't think it's evolved rapidly at all. Progressed yes, with
> all its little off shoots, but not evolved so rapidly.
I think grabbing Kraftwerk as a singularity and using that as a basis for
your evaluation is specious at best.
I stand by my claim. There have been times in the past 5 years where the
music of time N was already "obsolete" by the time N+6 months. I've never
seen such a fast period of change in musical genres like that. The music
of 1996 doesn't remotely sound like the music of 1991 to my ears. 1991-1992
Techno music almost sounds "quaint" now.
quoted 3 lines As it happens I was actually listening to my early Kraftwerk CDs and they> As it happens I was actually listening to my early Kraftwerk CDs and they
> sound as fresh as when I first heard them, especially against the likes of
> some of these retro-Electro artists.
Again, a specious comparison. Why compare it against the people who are
*deliberately* trying to do something which is a re-creation/evolution of
that which came before it, i.e. Nuevo Electro?
- Greg