Can anyone help me figure this one out? When did electro house start to really emerge (mainstream or not), and is there a definitive artist or track who put out the first electro house as we know it today, or is the term too disambiguous for an answer to this question to exist?
SYSTEM-J
No, there isn't. Electro house came out of electroclash, and there's no clear point where one ended and the other began.
Evolve140
Thanks. I didn't think so. Can anyone post some electro clash tracks, or some electro house tracks that emerged as a result of electro clash, during that era?
Zharen
Well this is the earliest electro house tune in my collection. Far from being the first but essential esp for the time.
And as far as my understanding goes, this would be a prime example of electroclash, although it's not a genre I have explored much.
Guest
This is what I know to be the first "electro" sound but this clashes greatly with the mainstream dreck that is around right now. (1983)
SYSTEM-J
Very helpful, Mark.
Guest
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Very helpful, Mark.
more helpful than you throwing your hands up in a moment of defeat.
SYSTEM-J
Yeah, giving a clearly wrong answer just to show you know some old classic is much better than stating the facts.
srussell0018
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Originally posted by Zharen
Man I haven't listened to this one in years. Mir Geht's Gut at the end of it is really good too.
Guest
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Yeah, giving a clearly wrong answer just to show you know some old classic is much better than stating the facts.
The OP doesnt exactly know what he's asking for other than some historical context. I was happy to provide it.
What I'm laughing at is that you feel the need to target my reply when someone else posted a Sander K track. If you were going to go into your late night being difficult mode you could have chosen an easier target. Just my .02
Evolve140
Well I did say "electro house" which is distinguishable from "electro", which is from the 80s. I intentionally navigated around using the term "electro" because this thread is about electro HOUSE not electro. But thanks anyway. I thought I was pretty clear about that.
edit: I'm not asking for a historical context of the evolution of the term electro, only the emergence of "electro house" and its conception and evolution.
Sykonee
Felix da Housecat's Kittenz & Thee Glitz probably was where the idea of electro house as a distinctive genre first arose, but it was still considered electroclash back then, only because anything that sounded kitchy, 80s, and cheaper than what the megaclubs were pumping out was branded electroclash. The Biz' Satisfaction gave electro house its first real crossover hit, but when the Swedes got their mitts on the sound, that's when it really exploded and became that distinctive farty style everyone associates with the genre.
