I've always seen techno as being "the music of the future" in the sense that it's *about* the future rather than destined to be the mainstream music everyone listens to in 2007 or whenever. But even still, in the time I've been involved in electronic music (about 12 years or so) there's been a definite trend towards increasing acceptance of it; even the nu-rock bands tend to have someone working on synths or samples, which was almost unthinkable in the late 1980s when there was a more solid partition between "real" and "electronic" music. The fluctuations of the last year or two don't have any effect, I reckon, on the development and acceptance of techno as a genre.
Besides, the majority of adolescent and post-adolescent kids will *always* like heavy guitar music, whether its heavy rock, grunge, nu-rock, punk, emo, indie-rock or any of the other names people apply to that genre. I'd be interested to see a psychological study, in fact, on just why it is that power chords appeal to much to the teenage psyche? Whenever I meet fans of hard metal, I always play them fairly abrasive techno records to see if those sounds have the same effect as guitars, and they never really do. Until electronic music manages to better the sound of a mouldy old guitar screaming hell for leather on a dusty Marshall amp, hard rock will forever dominate the souls of the young... :) Brendan > -----Original Message----- > From: robin pinning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 15 April 2002 12:53 > To: Tim Maughan > Cc: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: [313] Is Electronic Music dying? (was: "Re: The committee > vs. Carl Craig") > > > > > > > To me, Techno > > > has always been truly "The Music Of The Future" - and I > hate to see the > > > Future become something that starts to resemble the Past, > > > > > > well..."the music of the future"...that was always the > great, romantic idea > > wasn't it? but now the music is 20 years old, and i'd guess > most of us on > > this list are around the 30 mark... > > 'the kids' are all into nu-rock now aren't they? easier for the beer > companies to latch on to ("what? you're running a night and > everyone is > drinking water?!") and more mtv friendly than yer average nerdy > electronic artist :) > > > maybe i'm showing my age.... > > :) > > robin... > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Legal Disclaimer This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message that arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes only. our website at: http://www.widelearning.com Wide Learning is a trading name of Wide Multimedia Ltd Registered office: 33-41 Dallington Street, London EC1V 0BB Company number: 3339664 VAT number: 690 8399 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
