Problem is - Electro has always gotten the short end of the stick. It's the forgotten brother/sister of hip-hop. Scratch that - Electro is Hip-Hop! After the 80s barely anyone paid any attention to it - from techno to house to mainstream music. Hell, it barely got any recognition within hip-hop. It's been small groups of people keeping the real deal alive - not Electroclash and all the other new wave revivalists.
Now everyone wants to latch on to "Electro" but seems that they don't want to know the history of it. How it evolved with all the other elements of hip-hop - dance styles emerged with it (the Campbell lock anyone?), it influenced graffiti, and in the end it was the electric shock that started the techno heart beating! Now you get people thinking Daft Junk is electro? Gimme a break - and make it a "breakbeat" than you very much. all puns well intended MEK "kent williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/02/2007 03:23:48 PM: > I don't think anything is gained by being purist about a term like > 'Electro.' Though if you're talking to a Detroit Techno fan it does > have a very specific meaning. Daft Punk aint it. > > Though Electro is by no means an exclusively Detroit phenomenon. It > describes a particular beat pattern and emphasis on bass, which goes > back through early hip hop and Miami Bass. I wish my girl Miche' was > on the list because she started DJing in New Orleans in the mid 80s > and has hundreds of records covering non-Detroit Electro Style.
