Electro elitism.

audiodef · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:22 am Post subject:

My feeling is the people here generally don't care how you want to classify it. They like making their art, and if other people enjoy it, great! If not, that's OK, too.

Uncle Krunkus · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:32 am Post subject:

I usually find that if something is easily categorized as belonging to a particular genre of music, my interest in it goes down a tad. To me, it's a measure of how boring and predictable a track might be.
That being said, I do find a lot to interest me in many different "genres". Electronic, or a degree of "electronicness" is just one of many sounds I enjoy. Passionate performance, melodic structure, dynamic range, interesting and/or unique lyrics, etc. are all just as important to me, and can be found in everything from punk to classical, acapella to ambient drones.

MR-808 · Joined: Sep 30, 2010 Posts: 28 Location: Portland, OR

I book music at a club, and I remember sometime between '06-09 I started getting booking requests from acts who said they were "Electro". I'd go to their MySpace page and listen to their songs, and of course they were not even electronic. !?! I thought, then and now,"kids these days...they don't even know what Electro is!"

Does this make me an Electro Elitist? LOLZ

audiodef · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:31 am Post subject:

robsol · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:40 am Post subject:

And I thought classical music was elitist!

They are very well educated too. Wink

These days I get more pissed off by crap drivers of all kinds.

Antimon · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:23 am Post subject:

I don't like electro elitism, I only listen to ambient dubcore these days.

robsol · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:56 am Post subject:

audiodef · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:10 am Post subject:

patternsintheivy · Joined: Nov 27, 2011 Posts: 26 Location: Liverpool, UK

I always thought that metal was the world for elitism though- some of the subsubsubsubsubsubgenres are so narrow that they encompass only one band, and the difference between that style of music and the next is that one band is more influenced by Lord of the Rings while the other is more influenced by Morrowind.

audiodef · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 1:19 pm Post subject:

I just got rid of a book on the history of western music. Not because I'm not interested, but because it's rather dry material and not something interesting enough to read more than once. But I'm glad I did read it. I would like a book that goes way back AND covers modern music in more than just a few pages at the end. Because, yeah, people have no clue about the history of music. How metal - good metal - stems from classical or baroque. What rap is and where it came from. What jazz was originally all about. How electronic music evolved. And so on.

Personally, I call my stuff "iplayda raundfoora wyle". It's Norwegian for "it is what it is".

elektro80 · Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2012 6:04 pm Post subject:

cr · Joined: Mar 15, 2012 Posts: 6 Location: cologne

Blame it on the Streetsounds series...
And you can drive the electro elitism to even further extremes: The tracks on the Streetsounds compilations were basically electronic hip hop. Most US artists from that time will tell you that there was no "electro" and that they were doing hip hop. I don't really see the hip hop connection in much of today's electro (electro bass, techno bass), so if it was up to me that stuff wouldn't even be called electro. Very Happy

audiodef · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:41 pm Post subject:

veritable wonder · Joined: May 14, 2012 Posts: 2 Location: north of London ON

I don't know about electro-elitism so much here.

Seeing as how we be in the farm country north of London ON we don't see much of that.... Wink

JingleJoe · Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 12:50 pm Post subject:

I'm currently listening to a song which has epic synthesizer sounds as the lead, rock guitar solos, swing music-like backing trumpets, and occasionally eurobeat style interludes, it's very 80's but I can't place it in a genre at all. Even if I knew what genre it was I wouldn't care, I like it obscure anyways Wink

it's better not to care about genre and only about whether it sounds good to you or not.

P.S. who is making a band which plays the genre electro-elitism and only plays old classical stuff on huge analogue modular synths? Laughing

audiodef · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 6:58 am Post subject:

elektro80 · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 7:01 am Post subject:

Why not name a band after this bright dude..?

http://www.squidoo.com/president-merkin-muffley

elektro80 · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 7:01 am Post subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin