I think it's just a more succinct way of saying 'house music with electro' influence'. Labels are useful as tools - eg in rec stores - but I think the underground takes them more seriously. It doesn't change the way they sound. Metro Area rock.
---------- >From: Kent williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: 313 list <313@hyperreal.org> >Subject: RE: (313) electro house is taking over (maybe not just in OZ) >Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 1:41 AM > > I don't read those magazines, but sometimes i write for them. > The idea of 'electro house' does seem a bit of an oxymoron to me, since > my concept of different genres is rooted in the characteristic beat patterns > they use. > > House music almost invariably employs a kick on the beat (i.e. 1 2 3 4) > and a 'backbeat' sound, usually but not always a clap (i.e. 2 4) Around > this armiture all sorts of syncopation is possible, but that boom chick > boom chick between 115 and 130 BPM is what makes it instantly recognizable. > > Electro, by contrast has the backbeat on 2 and 4, but generally has a > syncopated, prominent kick. House will drop the backbeat on occasion, but > Electro generally maintains the backbeat from beginning to end. > > So Electro house would be ... what? Maybe this seems flippant, but > discriminating between genres is a continuing vexation for me. I'm still > trying to figure out what hard house is, but I have a hard time dissecting > it taxonomically because any time I hear a mix represented to me as hard > house I rarely last more than 5 minutes before I run screaming. > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Alex Bates wrote: >> mate i dont read those magazines, in fact i dont read any music >> mags/websites. i never heard the label 'electro house' until i made it up 30 >> mins ago. >> >> damn people like you for getting upset that people use terms to describe a >> certain style of music! :) >> >
