Thread: What is 'Electronic'?

Originally Posted by trbc08

Coil is far less accessible, in most cases, than either of those two musicians.

I finally got around to listening to Coil. I had assumed they were some modern American band but when I listened to them in the car - I thought - well the singer's English and they sound really old-fashioned - a sort of fragmented PiL/Siouxie sort of thing. So when I come home and check on wiki - I'm pretty close - win for me!

I liked them actually but I found some of the 'horror movie' bits a bit heavy-handed and so to me more comical than anything else.

Unkle next - the collaboration with Ian Brown sounds interesting.

Unkle was awful

Originally Posted by CMB1888

Unkle was awful

I agree for the most part. Did you listen to Rabbit In Your Headlights? It features Thom Yorke on vocals. It is my favorite song by them. A quick google search will give you the video on youtube.

Originally Posted by JonG

Did you listen to Rabbit In Your Headlights? It features Thom Yorke on vocals.

The video is better than the song (which is okay). Thom Yorke's voice is really cool on this though.

Electronic is my eternal favourite kind of music. Almost every segment of it, but there are exceptations. E.g. I don't like lot of today's techno, house or any other neverending-monotone pieces.

I much more like the individuals.

Although Kraftwerk was the first who got into succes with milestone album(s), starting with Autobahn I think. They are much of robotic, more emphasize on rythms and dinamics.
Then Vangelis came...I do like every of his oldie stuff ; recently he has gone into too classical unfortunately, imho.

But, agreeing with the following statement, there has been one man who revolutionised electronic music, who made EM into more popular scene, who has been experimenting between pop and experimental music. He is Jean Michel Jarre.

Although his first releases came at beginning of 70s, just like Kraftwerk or Vangelis, but still lookong his own style and path, resulting in new sound, new oxygen to the musical world : Oxygene !

And the legendary cover.

Electronic music is a music largely created by disk jockeys with a purpose of creating environment for dance-based entertainment.

We are two seconds away from machine-written music, and it will be the main weapon against any real musicians left. Other than properly-connected ones, of course. )