From Moonlight Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 22:03
From Moonlight Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 22:03
>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. >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. _________________________________ Adam Roesch / xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx Augsburg College / Minneapolis / MN / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "The only disease we need in our blood is love" TRICKY