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| quote: | Originally posted by limin_li
Electro is like a new wave of electronic dance music that just being redundant, seems like every producer right now is making electro house or trance. I don't like any of it except a few thats closely related to Funky House Music. Overall, I think uplifting trance is taking a break right now, it will pick up later in September unto 2008. |
This is false.
1- Electro is not new. It is much older than trance Alongside Hip Hop, they were the first EDM genres to get a breakthrough. Electro was invented with the first drum machines in the 1970's by the likes of Kraftwerk and Afrikaa Bambata. It is a mix of electronic "artificial" sounds and breakbeat.
The 2000's has seen the explosion of the electro house, and more importantly, the very short lived electroclash movement with the likes of DJ Hell, Anthony Rother and Tiga. This "electro" sub-genre dropped the breakbeat and replaced it with a 4/4 percussion, thus keeping up with the fad in the EDM industry. It was good, very good, and it still is. However, the problem is that this new electro, which is not like the original electro, started stealing the term electro. So much, that real electro (breakbeat) got new names such as grime or electro-hip-hop.
***this is a normal process seen in other musical genres. For instance, in the 1970's, Led Zepelin were considered to be heavy metal. In the 1980's Metallica, much harder, were the heavy metal, whereas now, the heavy metal are the Scandinavian bands (very hardcore).***
2- Trance is dead. Everybody says it. And it is not because Tiesto still fills up arenas and stadiums that trance is alive. It is dead. But some intelligent producers (such as Ferry) saw it coming. They wanted to flee the sinking ship of trance. So they hoped on a bandwagon of cheap generic electro (remember, it is in fact not electro) to stay on the top. In the process, they contributed to the emergence of said cheap generic electro. Sad. very sad.
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