Comments on: The problem with electronic music… http://torley.com/the-problem-with-electronic-music I amplify your awesome. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:23:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Amanda Shinji http://torley.com/the-problem-with-electronic-music#comment-46341 Amanda Shinji Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:50:58 +0000 http://torley.com/the-problem-with-electronic-music#comment-46341 I agree on some of the points you've raised here, especially the genrelisation of music and the insistance that everything be pigeonholed into it's little sub-sub-sub group. It drives me mad. Genres can't easily be defined because for instance 'trance' for one person isn't the same as 'trance' for someone else. As a DJ, producer and remixer, I am VERY much into my electronic music, hailing Orbital as the greatest band ever to exist on this planet, never to be surpassed in my lifetime etc. They are a genreless band, truly crossing all barriers and boundaries, very much like The Prodigy have somewhat achieved, Hybrid and others. Hybrid are another band I worship and feature regularly in my SL DJ sets (IM me for details of regular slots) and it's bands like them, pushing the envelope, thinking ahead of the game etc. that keep the electronic music scene fresh. On the subject of cheese and the more popular chart electronica, it has to exist for the underground to be what it is. Without mainstream, there is no underground, no bands like Autechre, Aphex Twin, Plaid etc. The Basshunters of this world, no matter how formulaic, how manufacturered they might be, have to exist so that those of us who really appreciate the music can have something less popular, yet far more advanced and simply better to listen to. As for the use of 'Techno'... If Dave Clarke or Richie Hawtin were dead, they'd be spinning in their graves at the bastardisation of that word. Don't get me started on 'techno' ;) I agree on some of the points you've raised here, especially the genrelisation of music and the insistance that everything be pigeonholed into it's little sub-sub-sub group. It drives me mad. Genres can't easily be defined because for instance 'trance' for one person isn't the same as 'trance' for someone else.

As a DJ, producer and remixer, I am VERY much into my electronic music, hailing Orbital as the greatest band ever to exist on this planet, never to be surpassed in my lifetime etc. They are a genreless band, truly crossing all barriers and boundaries, very much like The Prodigy have somewhat achieved, Hybrid and others. Hybrid are another band I worship and feature regularly in my SL DJ sets (IM me for details of regular slots) and it's bands like them, pushing the envelope, thinking ahead of the game etc. that keep the electronic music scene fresh.

On the subject of cheese and the more popular chart electronica, it has to exist for the underground to be what it is. Without mainstream, there is no underground, no bands like Autechre, Aphex Twin, Plaid etc. The Basshunters of this world, no matter how formulaic, how manufacturered they might be, have to exist so that those of us who really appreciate the music can have something less popular, yet far more advanced and simply better to listen to.

As for the use of 'Techno'… If Dave Clarke or Richie Hawtin were dead, they'd be spinning in their graves at the bastardisation of that word. Don't get me started on 'techno' ;)

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