Speaking of definitional debates, MEK, did you know that you appear
in an academic journal article on Final Scratch? Tosh appears there
too, believe it or not...
lemme know if you want a .pdf of it.
LMGM
On Dec 3, 2007, at 4:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shxt - Snoop is so much closer to what electro is and was than Daft
Punk
are or ever have been
like I said, electro is hip-hop - electronic hip-hop & electronic
funk
it's the meeting place between funk, as in R&B rooted funk, and hip-
hop
just because Daft Punk uses vocoders and have disco/robot imagery
doesn't
mean they are electro
notice the beat in Snoops track - well electro - smack dab on the one
yes, Kraftwerk had 4/4 beats - but anyone claiming that Kraftwerk
were 100%
Electro are mistaken
they *inspired* Electro a great deal - possibly without them it
would have
never happened the way it did
as for pop - well not all rectangles are squares now are they? While
electro can be pop music not all pop music can be Electro.
Dre is well rooted in Electro - World Class Wrecking Crew? Total West
Coast Electro vibes there. The home of the Popping & Locking - funk
dancing!
the only people you're going to confuse are those who don't know
anyway
so is Daft Punk an Electro group - only in France apparently
MEK
Rob G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/03/2007 03:43:52 PM:
I think the best response to a typical discussion such as this is to
try to confuse the arguments as much as possible.
1. Kraftwerk claimed to be pop and cited how much they were Motown
influenced.
2. Kraftwerk had 4-4 beats.
3. Is Prince pop or electro? Roger & Zapp? Dr. Dre sampling Roger
& Zapp? ... what about Snoop here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSS_DY_z-Dc
is that electro? Pop? R&B? Rap?
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: KiDD*e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Three-One-Three <313@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, December 3, 2007 9:25:58 AM
Subject: Re: (313) Electro vs Electro
LOL! Maybe I need to start carrying around a vocoder.
MEK
"KiDD*e" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/03/2007 11:14:23 AM:
I've given up to get all worked up everytime i hear this term
wrongfully
used.
If someone says to me that its gonna be an "electro" party, i always
ask
whether it's "ÉlectrO" (with a flat french teen rocker accent), or
"EE-LeK-TrOw" (with a robot distorted voice). If he doesn't get
it, i
say
goodbye.
- K*
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "313 Mailing List" <313@hyperreal.org>; "Benoît Pueyo"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 5:57 PM
Subject: RE: (313) Electro vs Electro
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
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