Official Electro Discussion.

If someone says ANYTHING about Deadmau5, guetta, or any of those other electro-house fuckers gallivanting under the premise of playing electro I quit.
 
Isn't there already an electro thread on here? I'll bump it if I can find it. And yeah - words like 'Deadmau5', 'Guetta', 'Boys Noize' and 'Justice' are banned from this discussion. Anyone who wants to discuss them can setup a 'cheese' thread.
 
pioneered by Kraftwerk, brought to the forefront by Afrika Bambaataa. see also Egyptian Lover, Model 500 and Anthony Rother.

also to be (imo) considered electro(ish) music would be turn of the century Andrew Weatherall, Two Lone Swordsmen, Radioactive Man, Alexander Robotnick and to a degree- Dave Clarke. but this second tier is more open to be interpreted differently and not held to absolutes.
 
I couldn't find the previous electro thread, so I assume it must have been erased.

For me, Kraftwerk define electro. That is to say that Kraftwerk are electro in it's purest form.

Electro has broken beats (although whether or not it has to have broken beats is a matter of debate), normally with electronic drum sounds (rather than samples of real drums) - the 808 was a popular drum machine for making electro in the '80s, although Kraftwerk were making electro before the 808 was even invented.

Electro has naive synth melodies - by naive, I mean simple, innocent, child-like - like the melodies you hear in nursery-rhymes.

Electro is completely electronic, i.e. it does not feature any instruments other than synths. Where vocals are used, they are normally vocodered so that they sound robotic. Pure electro uses analogue synths (rather than digital or soft-synths), which create incredibly lush, warm sounds which are rich in harmonics.

Where an electro track has lyrics, they are normally about technology/computers/machines/visions of the future. This tendency was started by Kraftwerk.

Here are some tracks that I consider to be electro:


Kraftwerk - Tour De France

Kraftwerk - Numbers/Computer World 2

Mantronix - Bassline

Cybotron - Clear

Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)

Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F

Anthony Rother - Biomechanik

LFO - Freak

Radioactive Man - Airlock

Tiga and Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night
 
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Boys Noize = Cheese? I feel i must disagree here. He does not play the purist form of electro, and I have a real hard time trying to genre-fy what he plays. I feel there are different tiers of cheese. The purists like kraftwerk are not cheese. I feel justice are slightly more cheesy than boys noize. With people like benni benassi who play electro house, the cheesiest. I feel cheese can not be binary.

On the electro disscusion I feel I got into EDM too late and missed electro. Listening to MDMAhead's list now. Hopefully after that I will have more to add.
 
electro will not have buil-up nor should it have vocal other than something run through a vocoder. electro house is such a fucking oxymoron. i dont post around here much but i listen to elctro with a passion. alot of shit electro in the states, but still def some good electro coming outa the states aswell. travel to europe and electro may still be king. anthony rother makes some sick shit. split dynamix in half and add another dude to scott weiser and get jackal and hyde making ground with very good electro-core perhasp thats the word i was looking for.

check grumptronix out for some good shit, but he kinda covers all aspects of music, but still has some sick shit happening.

give me a minute i get some more names pulled out the collection for ya
 
Thizzerfershizzer said:
Id have to fit Crookers in with more of the fidget crowd.
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Now I don't understand fidget either. Some fidget house sounds nothing like crookers, bloody beetroots, DIM etc. I would have to say I want to call people like boys noize and tiga electro. I feel it is something else, if what shake2 said is correct about the build up, then none of those artists are pure electro.

I have it all in under the genre nu disco/indie dance but honesly that is just what beatport calls it and I have no idea what that means. So what would you people genre-fy boys noize, bloody beatroots, crookers and the likes?

Sorry to side track the thread.
 
Bloody Beetroots and DIM arent fidget at all.

Fidget artists are arists like Kelevra, Jack Beats, Calvertron, and Herve
 
shake2 said:
travel to europe and electro may still be king.
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Unfortunately, electro isn't very big in the UK. Rother normally plays at Fabric (in London) about twice a year, but I don't think I've ever seen him on a Manchester lineup :( Other than that, Andy Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood occasionally put on 'Haywire' nights - again these are normally in London. I saw Percy X in Manchester a couple of years ago, but unfortunately he didn't play any electro (which is a shame considering he's produced some killer electro tracks). There certainly aren't good electro nights every weekend.

I'm seeing Aphex Twin DJ in Manchester this coming weekend at an event called 'The Warehouse Project', where a promoter hires out a disused warehouse for 3 months, and puts on 2 nights there every weekend. The main reason I'm going to see Aphex is he's the only DJ in this whole run of Warehouse Projects who I can guarentee will play some proper electro :)

I think electro is far bigger on the continent (especially Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands) - a lot of their techno events seem to also have good electro DJs/live acts.


Anyway: This is electro
 
MDMAhead said:
Unfortunately, electro isn't very big in the UK. Rother normally plays at Fabric (in London) about twice a year, but I don't think I've ever seen him on a Manchester lineup :( Other than that, Andy Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood occasionally put on 'Haywire' nights - again these are normally in London. I saw Percy X in Manchester a couple of years ago, but unfortunately he didn't play any electro (which is a shame considering he's produced some killer electro tracks). There certainly aren't good electro nights every weekend.

I'm seeing Aphex Twin DJ in Manchester this coming weekend at an event called 'The Warehouse Project', where a promoter hires out a disused warehouse for 3 months, and puts on 2 nights there every weekend. The main reason I'm going to see Aphex is he's the only DJ in this whole run of Warehouse Projects who I can guarentee will play some proper electro :)

I think electro is far bigger on the continent (especially Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands) - a lot of their techno events seem to also have good electro DJs/live acts.


Anyway: This is electro
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seeing Weatherall in a couple weeks!

full report on Aphex Twin duder!
 
Sykik said:
Now I don't understand fidget either. Some fidget house sounds nothing like crookers, bloody beetroots, DIM etc. I would have to say I want to call people like boys noize and tiga electro. I feel it is something else, if what shake2 said is correct about the build up, then none of those artists are pure electro.

I have it all in under the genre nu disco/indie dance but honesly that is just what beatport calls it and I have no idea what that means. So what would you people genre-fy boys noize, bloody beatroots, crookers and the likes?

Sorry to side track the thread.
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I tend to agree with beatport's classification. Stuff like MSTRKRFT, Crookers, Boyz Noize, Alex Metric: Indie Dance. Fidget goes off in the direction of stuff like Herve and Jack Beats. Electro House is your more traditional cheese: deadmau5, dirty south, spencer and hill etc etc.

Electro is completely and utterly different.

e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRniwobQChw&eurl=http://
 
MDMAhead said:
I'm seeing Aphex Twin DJ in Manchester this coming weekend at an event called 'The Warehouse Project', where a promoter hires out a disused warehouse for 3 months, and puts on 2 nights there every weekend. The main reason I'm going to see Aphex is he's the only DJ in this whole run of Warehouse Projects who I can guarentee will play some proper electro :)
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I dont, and will never classify Aphex as electro. What makes you think he is?

btw you're in for a treat, Aphex is such a face melter live!!
 
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