Electro is a product of the 80s and has never stopped:
"Blending '70s funk with the emerging hip-hop culture and synthesizer
technology of the early '80s
produced the style known alternately as Electro. But what seemed to be a
brief fad for the public ?
no more than two or three hits, including Afrikaa Bambaataa's "Planet Rock"
and Grandmaster Flash's
"The Message," neither of which made the pop Top 40 ? was in fact a fertile
testing ground for
innovators who later diverged into radically different territory, including
Dr. Dre (who worked with
the World Class Wreckin' Cru) and techno godfather Juan Atkins (with
Cybotron). Electro also
provided an intriguing new direction for one of the style's prime influences:
Herbie Hancock, whose
1973 Headhunters album proved a large fusion hit, came storming back in 1983
with the electro single
"Rockit." Despite its successes (documented in full on Rhino's four-disc
Electric Funk set), the
style was quickly eclipsed by the mid-'80s rise of hip-hop music built around
samples (often from
rock records) rather than musical synthesizers. Nevertheless, many techno and
dance artists
continued harking back to the sound, and a full-fledged electro revival
emerged in Detroit and
Britain during the mid-'90s."
http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=C2785
MEK
":P"
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electro is heavily influenced by the 80s. electro is driving the prices of
tr-808s back up.
-Joe
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> No I'm not narrowly defining what electro is - electro has it's roots in
> hip-hop/funk culture - I haven't heard too much of that in the
Elektroclash
> stuff - which leans toward and practically rips-off New Order/Duran
> Duran/Patrick Cowley/Sylvester/Moroder/any ol' 80s synthpop group.
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> MEK
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> and there "you" go, narrowly defining a word to only fit what you like.
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> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Hold on now - electro is not trendy - *Elektroclash* is trendy
> > (Fischerspooner and the like). Electro, like Herbie Hancock's "Rockit",
> Aux
> > 88, Kraftwerk, Drexciya, etc. aren't trendy -
> >
> > they are timeless.
> >
> > See - there "they" go again misappropriating the genre... ;)
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> > MEK
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> > ":P"
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> > nope, the immediate future is electro and micro*.*
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> > both are considered trendy among those who need to be trendy to be part
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> > -Joe
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> > > Ian wrote on Wed, 5 Jun 2002 about following:
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> > > > That said, I'm waiting for the EBM revival to rise out of this
> > > > "electro-clash" business. Front 242/Nitzer Ebb cover band, anyone?
> > >
> > > actually front 242 instrumentals (although i definitely like the
> > > vocal versions) are pretty good mixing stuff.. straigth beats and
> > > whatnot.
> > >
> > > anyway, as we've seen genres come and go - what do you people think,
> > > will acidhouse be next big thing? there has been some hints about it
> > > already in this list - and perhaps hip-house quite quickly after
that..
> > > :)
> > >
> > >
> > > sakke, waiting for the youngsters to find out FLA - Mindphaser :)
> > > --
> > > "Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is."
> > > - Master Yoda, Star Wars Episode II
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