I dont really care... I just really hate the term 'dance music'... makes it sound corny.

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I think the word 'Electronica' is the appropriate word to sum it up generally..

Your Mother:

It doesnt bother me at all..

it was just an observation.


Although what does bother me is that the word "electronica" was dreamed up by some Time magazine article writer. Ill never take that term seriously.

Just call it electronic music if you are going to go that route

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Originally posted by Jayx1 Although what does bother me is that the word "electronica" was dreamed up by some Time magazine article writer.

uhhh... source?


the term 'electronica' was first coined by British recording label "New Electronica"

source

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Originally posted by Your Mother Why does it bother you so much what names people use to describe the music? I've been in the scene for a pretty long time and mixing records for almost as long and I call everything techno (unless I'm talking about the music to someone who is just as musically inclined). Sure I can digress if I want to and start talking about the differences between the different genres (techno, funky house, soulful house, hard house, tech house, vocal house, progressive house, progressive trance, epic trance, euro, breakbeats, drum&bass (my personal fav), happy hardcore.....) and probably a dozen other forms of electronic music that haven't popped into my head yet. Just because I like to call it techno, does it mean I'm wrong? The entire genre of music is open to alot of interpretation. What we call hard trance is typically called hard house in the UK; What we typically call house, is called funky house in the UK. Everybody interprets the music differently. -Your Mother

It doesn't appear to me that he is bothered by it- he's just making an observation. and i think the point of interest is more in what genre of music is being used at any given time as an umbrella term by ppl not in the scene. It obviously indicates which genre of music has the most mainstream exposure at any given time.

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Originally posted by Jayx1 Your Mother: It doesnt bother me at all.. it was just an observation. Although what does bother me is that the word "electronica" was dreamed up by some Time magazine article writer. Ill never take that term seriously. Just call it electronic music if you are going to go that route

haha. i wrote my response to him just as you were (was just a little slooooow)

Techno gets a lot of different things labeled as techno - after all, what electronica ISNT "technology music"?

I personally like the word electronica!

LOL Charmscars...

great munds think alike

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Originally posted by Matt source

pwnd

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Originally posted by Matt I dont really care... I just really hate the term 'dance music'... makes it sound corny.

corny or not, that's what it is- those are the roots. house music was born out of disco and you pretty much can't get away from the fact that that is dance music.

electronic music, would be an umbrella term for everything electronic, not just dance music (think of more experimental stuff (mostly german) that is completely undanceable). In my opionion the word 'electronica' does not sufficiently represent what EDM is to me (i realize that in some circles it has been given basically the same definition as edm)- i mean, basically it's a plural of the word 'electronic.' EDM is more specific.

electronic dance music (edm) i think is the most appropriate term for it...b/c that does diffentiate it from all electronic music....and well, it's made for ppl to dance to at clubs.

all in all,i really don't care what ppl call it as long as they are enjoying the music

I personally like the term electronica, because even though it may cover stuff that isn't "danceable", it still covers techno, trance, house, and subcategories of each. Its a good blanket term in my opinion.

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personally I like the term "electronica".

techno, trance, DnB, House, etc. are just sub-categories for the true listeners that are one up in the game.

majority of people can't distinguish a difference between techno and trance.. nubs

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Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* "Are you guys TAs?" and they'd reply back with "No, I'm on E." Haha