Nail meet Hammer - bang! Exactly Ken. Imo the word and meaning of Electro has been hijacked and the plane is in danger of being blown up. "Electro" has been slapped on as a prefix because it became the hot word - it sold magazines like Mixmag and URB, it sold fashion accessories at Hot Topic, and it sold records at HMV/Best Buy. Why? Because few people buying it were old enough to know it the first time. They'd heard the word but didn't hear the sound.
MEK "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/03/2007 09:53:26 AM: > True say. > > On the one hand we could take the chance to decry the futility and > at times laughable nature of genres and their names (usually a good > thing to do). We could also be magnanimous and reiterate how > 'scene's change,' 'everything evolves', etc. But on the other hand > there is a worthwhile point to be made about the way widely accepted > meanings can evolve (and more sinisterly, be hi-jacked so that > they're *made* to evolve!) in such a way that important social > underpinnings of a genre at its outset could be potentially > downplayed and perhaps in future, start to be forgotten. > > What do we want electro to mean? > > Kraftwerk+Parliament? > > Or > > Fischerspooner+Tiga? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Michael.Elliot- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 December 2007 15:40 > To: Benoît Pueyo > Cc: 313 Mailing List > Subject: Re: (313) Electro vs Electro > > > Fck that - just because a huge majority of people call anything with > a "dance beat" and synths "techno" doesn't mean that we should start > calling Paul Oakenfold sound "techno music". > > Electro = Electronic Funk as in Egyptian Lover, Aux 88, Whodini, > UTFO - it's the in early roots of hip-hop, it's Funkadelic, it's > Miami Bass, it's the 808, it's electrified funk/R&B/soul to the bone > > Daft Punk make pop music > > "Electroclash" did a great deal of harm in confusing the matter imo. > > MEK > > > > > Benoît Pueyo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/02/2007 06:51:00 AM: > > > I think Daft Punk cannot be qualified as Electro, simply house or > > dance music to me. > > > > But I see what u wanted to mean : most people call that new kindof > > dance music filled with medium distorted synths 'Electro'. A good > > example : John Dahlback 'Blink'. > > > > To me, we have to accept to call that music 'Electro' simply becasue a > > huge majority of people do that, and even if thus we qualify Aux88 music > > with the same word. > > > > Words' meaning evolve, thats just about that. Before that 'Electro' > > phenomenon came, Ive alreay thought that all this commercial wave of > > 'house' music had probably left some bitter taste in Chicago house > > godfatehrs' mouth... And that didnt change anything. > > > > Actually we should feel lucky that Fedde Le Grand track did not make > > people start calling this kindof music 'Detroit Techno' ;o) > > > > Benoît. > > > > Frank Glazer a écrit : > > > daft punk has never been electro. the aux 88 i've heard is > > definitely electro. > > > > > > On Dec 1, 2007 8:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Are Daft Punk and Aux 88 both Electro? Either? Neither? > > >> > > >> m50 > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > >
