Updated guide to electronica music
09-25-03, 09:43 PM
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Updated guide to electronica music
For a long time, I've sent this link to friends after I denigrated them for calling all electronica "techno". Well its new and improved, and a whopping 50 MB flash program, complete with samples of 140 genres
http://www.ishkur.com/features/music/index.htm#
Its a very useful tool, but keep in mind that the writer is somewhat jaded with the electronica scene, and some of his opinons are tongue-in-cheek.
http://www.ishkur.com/features/music/index.htm#
Its a very useful tool, but keep in mind that the writer is somewhat jaded with the electronica scene, and some of his opinons are tongue-in-cheek.
09-26-03, 03:52 PM
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That is a great guide--Allmusic's maps of electronic music are pretty deficient (They are still under Rock?)
I especially loved this one:
Turntablism
AKA Scratching
ATTENTION ALL DJS: IF YOU ARE NOT CAPABLE OF DOING THIS, YOU ARE NOT A "MUSICIAN". In the world of playing recorded music, one genre stands far and away from the rest as the one true art of competence, skill, and showmanship: Turntablism. The idea that a record can be scratched, back-spinned, cutted, sliced, spliced, and manipulated as a deliberate musical feature warrants so much praise and respect I crap my pants just thinking about it. It doesn't even seem right to call them DJs. It's unfair that these people are given the same title as some idiot blathering away on morning radio, or a tacky human stereo playing cds at a wedding. That's just impolite and rude. Call them what they really are: Record Gods.
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I especially loved this one:
Turntablism
AKA Scratching
ATTENTION ALL DJS: IF YOU ARE NOT CAPABLE OF DOING THIS, YOU ARE NOT A "MUSICIAN". In the world of playing recorded music, one genre stands far and away from the rest as the one true art of competence, skill, and showmanship: Turntablism. The idea that a record can be scratched, back-spinned, cutted, sliced, spliced, and manipulated as a deliberate musical feature warrants so much praise and respect I crap my pants just thinking about it. It doesn't even seem right to call them DJs. It's unfair that these people are given the same title as some idiot blathering away on morning radio, or a tacky human stereo playing cds at a wedding. That's just impolite and rude. Call them what they really are: Record Gods.
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