I'm running into word 'electro' in the most peculiar instances nowdays.
Especially in the music magazine Rumba they have managed to label anything
that hints at post-triphop sound as electro. I saw a poster of Brothom States
that announced that they wear a "black belt in electro". In the pages of finnish
techno-org Fiktio dj Elliot Ness has become "the first finnish electro-dj".
Bomfunk MC's claimed their new album's sound has "electro-influences".
Sure. If it means that beat is not straight but broken. In the same breath
you could claim that psychedelic trance is influenced by classical music
because there's melody in both.
It's stupid to label music, isn't it? Sure. It's also stupid to call an orange
an apple because they're both round. In electro, as in all music, the most
important things are style and sound. It's not enough to label music as
'electro', because style should be based on music and I have hard time
understanding why confuse things with inaccurate names.
In http://www.urbansounds.com you can find an interview with Carl Finlow
that's worth reading if you're interested in modern electro. In the same issue
Thomas Brinkmann, Steve Reich, Carsten Nicolai, Richie Hawtin, Stewart
Walker and Taylor Deupree talk about minimalism and their musical history.
_Very_ good reading from the men who have been thinking about what
they are doing, some of them for the last thirty or forty years.
-Kvantti / X-Rust
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