And me, I allways thouth Fatboy Slim, and the Chemical Brothers were Big
Beat, And electronica was just a umbrella term for all, or almost all,
digital music....or for the digital music that can not be fit snugly into
other catogories and is to poppy to be called experimental.
one of the five anyway
zach
quoted 36 lines From: EggyToast <eggy@eggytoast.com>
>From: EggyToast <eggy@eggytoast.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: RE: [idm] idm = braindance
>Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:44:54 -0500
>
>>what's wrong with the term 'electronica'? it's a simpler, more ambiguous
>>title that doesn't come with any of the pretension that 'IDM' does...
>>
>
>Except that the construction of electronica turns a genderless
>classification into a feminized role, sparring directly with "Techno" (and
>its masculine overtones). The last thing I want to deal with when I talk
>about music is genderization issues :)
>
>That, and there already is an electronica genre. It's usually the place
>where groups like Air and other pop-based electronic music are grouped --
>you know, the ones that aren't as edgy as "techno" yet aren't as repetitive
>as house nor trance. You can also place "fatboy slim" and "chemical
>brothers" in the electronica genre, if you look at it more broadly.
>
>Regardless, it's rather moot -- the people who know what you're talking
>about will largely not care about the terms you use, and the people who
>don't won't have any idea anyway ;)
>
>If you're picky about it, why add that "a" at the end? "Electronic" Nice
>and broad and about as useless as most other genre names.
>
>derek
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