quoted 1 line and please use a different term to generalize all electronic music rather
>and please use a different term to generalize all electronic music rather
than >techno. techno is crap electronic music like Keoki and Moby.
So is "electronic music" the catchall term now? I don't like that, so much
that isn't in what you're categorizing as "electronic music" is electronic,
while Squarepusher isn't always. "Electronica" came and went, and is now
used for a subgenre that includes "lite techno," like Madonna albums. IDM
has that damn rephlex/warp/skam concept to it. Is there a large category
that includes everything from Fila Brazillia and Coldcut to "Rotted One
Note" to Coil to IDM and ambient and techno/house and jungle yet still
excludes pop music? Can we invent one?
"Technica" is my pick, with nods to techno (kindof a starting place
catchall for what would later develpo into all we have), the idea that a
lot of this music is technologically advanced (what other meta-genres would
have songs written by pictures?), and a good pair of hiking boots.
And Moby is not crap music. Moby showed me that music could be fun again
through his house tracks (while i had been listening to un-fun music like
Soundgarden and Alice in Chains). Plus the subtle ambience of "First Cool
Hive" showed me that ambient did not have to suck like the ambient i had
heard sucked.
quoted 1 line which ones stand out from ten years ago??
>which ones stand out from ten years ago??
A Guy Called Gerald "Automanikk"
Of course the only reason i have that is cos what he's gone on to do.
The Orb's first singles "Evergrowing Brain" and Little Fluffy Clouds are
almost ten years old, and they're still great.
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