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Re: [idm] Number of Names "Shari Vari" (was: wtf...)

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2002-03-19 15:43M Mercer Re: [idm] Number of Names "Shari Vari" (was: wtf...)
2002-03-19 19:28Re: [idm] Number of Names "Shari Vari" (was: wtf...)
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2002-03-19 15:43M MercerIt's hard to really draw a concrete line between early techno and house. To my ears they o
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Re: [idm] Number of Names "Shari Vari" (was: wtf...)
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It's hard to really draw a concrete line between early techno and house. To my ears they overlapped quite heavily and made the break several years later as we distinguish them now. Take for instance the "Shari Vari" track by Number of Names which was released in 1981 (or thereabouts)... definitely post-disco but an extension of that entire culture of music, along with something very new. A lot of people consider this the first techno release from Detroit but it has in many ways the makings of a house record, so I don't necessarily think it's all that clear-cut a distinction when you go pretty far back. When it comes down to it, it's all dance music. Some people just dance to the beat of a different drum machine. ;-) By the way, "Shari Vari" was just reissued on vinyl by Puzzlebox, and it includes a string of stellar remixes from Scan 7, Strand, Ectomorph, Adult, Eddie Fowlkes and more... there are a few duds but mostly this is a great set of mixes. It's the first time the track has appeared outside of a mix compilation and on vinyl in a number of years.
quoted 22 lines Well, if you're gonna get all historical about it, techno is not>Well, if you're gonna get all historical about it, techno is not >(chronologically) the grandaddy of all modern electronic music genres. >House >has been around in one form or another since the fall of disco, and unless >you count kraftwerk as being the techno genre unto themselves, it predates >what most would consider techno. > >So IDM should be listed under house now? :) > >>Because techno is the grandaddy of all modern electronic music genres. >> >>Before anyone was listening to house, jungle, breakbeat, trance, IDM, etc. >>they were listening to Techno. Everything after that is just a sub-genre. >>Techno is actually a very logical place to put IDM. >> >>12 years ago if someone asked me what kinda music I listened to I'd say >>"techno". So, as far as I'm concerned everything that came after is just >>an >>interpretation of the genre. >> >>Techno is the master genre. It defines the category of electric music we >>listen to.
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2002-03-19 19:28Gaiatekztur214@aol.comword perm, iD have to say that imo the electronics we are listening to derives its style,
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word perm, iD have to say that imo the electronics we are listening to derives its style, form, and structure from every musical genre if one were to go around asking every electronic musician what their inspiration and influences were...shit, i was raised on the Police, some Arlo Guthrie, and Wierd Al Yankovic...of course i myself didnt choose to listen to these musicians, my rents would blast it whenever their friends stopped by to chill in their respective cuts...i myself picked up on the hip-hop (early 90's ie EPMD, Masta Ace Inc, Guru, MC Search et al) and metal (Sepultura, Slayer, ) of kiss-fm 98.7 and the old x107...i am blessed for living near manhattan so by way of radio dial exploration, i got to listen to all sorts of wierd shit on the college radio of WNYU & WFMU...this expanded my musical horizons beyond what i had even known to exist in this commercial sound state...I became a punk rawking, hardcore, hip-hopping, electro, prog-rockin, folksy, indie dork by them and well...here i am...blabbering... tidewatergemfish np. my own music, cuz i like the music i make sometimes