RE: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-05 Thread Odeluga, Ken
? RB? Rap? - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-04 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
probably not but I heard that they do keep bananas preserved under their stage for an after show snack MEK kent williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/03/2007 07:47:14 PM: What I really wonder is if you can sharpen razor blades by aligning them to magnetic north under their pyramid.

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-04 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
? - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Gil Yaker
Hey, two songs off of Homework were nominated for grammys, how much more pop can you get? I kid... :) - Original Message From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Monday, December 3, 2007 10:59:16 AM Subject: Re: (313) Electro vs Electro homework

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Gary . Girard
@fallon.com To: Benoît Pueyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: 313 Mailing List 313@hyperreal.org 03/12/07 15:40 Subject: Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

RE: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Odeluga, Ken
do we want electro to mean? Kraftwerk+Parliament? Or Fischerspooner+Tiga? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On Dec 3, 2007 10:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you classify 'Homework' as pop music ?? How about 'Rock n Roll' off that album ? Doesn't sound very 'pop' to me. Maybe their subsequent albums, but Homework is an all time classic in my opinion. homework is an excellent house and

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On Dec 3, 2007 11:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Homework is less pop than their subsequent albums. Imo Daft Punk as pop as Chemical Brothers, Moby, Prodigy, etc. are pop their last album was very techno, it sucked, but it wasnt really pop at all. its funny that one more time is a pop song,

RE: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Toby Frith
level - in that they don't actually play at their own gigs. -Original Message- From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 December 2007 16:17 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) Electro vs Electro On Dec 3, 2007 11:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Homework is less

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
Problem is - Electro has always gotten the short end of the stick. It's the forgotten brother/sister of hip-hop. Scratch that - Electro is Hip-Hop! After the 80s barely anyone paid any attention to it - from techno to house to mainstream music. Hell, it barely got any recognition within

RE: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
Subject: Re: (313) Electro vs Electro On Dec 3, 2007 11:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Homework is less pop than their subsequent albums. Imo Daft Punk as pop as Chemical Brothers, Moby, Prodigy, etc. are pop their last album was very techno, it sucked, but it wasnt really pop at all. its

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On Dec 3, 2007 11:19 AM, Toby Frith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you define Pop? I would say that Daft Punk's overt manipulation of image and how they present both their music and themselves is up in the higher echelons of pop music alongside Kraftwerk, Sparks et al. In fact it's

RE: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
? 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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
George Clinton said it best Everything is on the 1 MEK Michael Pujos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/02/2007 03:40:31 PM: kent williams a écrit : I don't think anything is gained by being purist about a term like 'Electro.' Though if you're talking to a Detroit Techno fan it does have a

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread KiDD*e
. - 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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
] 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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Rob G
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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On Dec 3, 2007 4:43 PM, Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
? Rap? - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Rob G
: Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Three-One-Three 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Monday, December 3, 2007 1:43:52 PM Subject: Re: (313) Electro vs Electro 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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread kent williams
invented electro-house? - Original Message From: Rob G [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Three-One-Three 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Monday, December 3, 2007 1:43:52 PM Subject: Re: (313) Electro vs Electro I think the best response to a typical discussion such as this is to try to confuse

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-03 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
? - Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread Benoît Pueyo
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

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread Luis-Manuel Garcia
Electro has different meanings from place to place, as well. When I was living in Paris, electro was used as a rather broad genre label that usually contrasted with minimal(e). Electro included tracks that filled the mid-frequency range with distortion and/or synths, vocals, and a thick

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread Benoît Pueyo
Pretty good description of what's happening here in France. Did you know I was French, eh ? To reply to Tom, you have to know that here all major medias going from mass audience TV to promoters (even in the finest clubs such as Rex) use 'Electro' for a very wide spectrum of electronic music.

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread Frank Glazer
i've always thought of electro as an extremely limiting (in a good way) genre term including only music with heavy 808 style drum patterns. electro is all about the rhythm, in my opinion. if it has a 4-on-the-floor rhythm, i don't call it electro. ten classic examples of electro: ice-t and

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On Dec 2, 2007 1:50 PM, Benoît Pueyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To reply to Tom, you have to know that here all major medias going from mass audience TV to promoters (even in the finest clubs such as Rex) use 'Electro' for a very wide spectrum of electronic music. So sadly the Me.De and Aux88

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread kent williams
I don't think anything is gained by being purist about a term like 'Electro.' Though if you're talking to a Detroit Techno fan it does have a very specific meaning. Daft Punk aint it. Though Electro is by no means an exclusively Detroit phenomenon. It describes a particular beat pattern and

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread Michael Pujos
if it has a 4-on-the-floor rhythm, i don't call it electro. It might be electro-techno though :)

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread Michael Pujos
kent williams a écrit : I don't think anything is gained by being purist about a term like 'Electro.' Though if you're talking to a Detroit Techno fan it does have a very specific meaning. Daft Punk aint it. Though Electro is by no means an exclusively Detroit phenomenon. It describes a

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-02 Thread Frank Glazer
nonsense. On Dec 2, 2007 4:44 PM, Michael Pujos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if it has a 4-on-the-floor rhythm, i don't call it electro. It might be electro-techno though :) -- peace, frank dj mix archive: http://www.deejaycountzero.com

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-01 Thread Frank Glazer
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 -- peace, frank dj mix archive: http://www.deejaycountzero.com

Re: (313) Electro vs Electro

2007-12-01 Thread Michael Kuszynski
Daft Punk is succeeding in the post 2001-death-of-massive-raves merger of indie, acoustic hipster, genre bender, post idm, rock friendly, disco cum techno / house universe we live in, after having made some pretty forward thinking, synth heavy, greatly engineered and arranged fat disco house 10