outside forces ? Peter Leidy schrieb:
> > i don't understand why all the new-school electro-pop gets so much criticism > > but so much new-school jazz/house/breaks, broken-beat-type stuff passes the > > "quality" test. i know it all comes down to individual tastes, but it just > > I thought this was because new-school electro pop is crossing over to the > indie rock crowd- and has all the makings of an indie rock fad, which in > turn means that the fad will end and people will forget about it. > > While the broken beat movement has enjoyed the same fast growing > popularity- the audience is still largely withing the techno-house-idm > camp- so techno headz are not worrying about outside forces controlling > the fate of this music. the only outside attention seems to be coming from > r&b and jazz audiences, and it seems to be a bit more modest- i.e. - has > not been turned into a standard formula song structure (at least not as > much as the timbaland breakbeat formula :), has not suffered as many > limited-pressing/status-symbol type releases to promote the hierarchic fad > structure among audiences. Also broken-beat does not suffer the negative > connotations of retro and nostalgia in the same way that electro does. > > i'm mostly critical of the electro-pop movement because i think there is a > lot of quality electro/italo that is going to get lost in the sea of > mediocre electro-pop, and will soon go unappreciated because people will > be tired of all things electro. > > -p > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
