Electroclash: "Intelligent Dance Music"
yuichi
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So I went reluctantly to this outdoor event in downtown LA. It was somewhat of a culture shock to me. But I still had fun overall. To me, it seemed like a rave without the glowsticks and ecstacy. Hipster Central in full effect.And one of the girls was hella into this music. She said it's basically "intelligent dance music". To which I initially thought was a diss to Hip-hop which I so hold dear to my heart. But she said that's what people actually call it.What's the deal.
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Electroclash and "electro house" is just the hipster's trance music. Same cheesy melodies just played on different synths.
Ahh i see. thanks for clarification.
That's pretty much the impression I got. I got this cheesy melody stuck in my head right now! help!!!
electro house is basically just a recent strain of house music that has its hits and misses. i cant say i've known too many hipsteurs into it, in my experience its more of an international thing, a lot of indian students were into that kind of stuff when i was in college and i've enjoyed the few mixes and tracks i've heard. get physical records used to qualify as 'electrohouse' think
anyone who knows better than i do can feel free to correct me
No unfortunately not. It was a tame crowd.
That would be too dumb for such an intelligent musical form.
I get the feeling maybe the pulsating bass could have been louder to that have happened.
i don't know why... but this shit made me laugh.
i really don't know the "genre" well but i gotta say most of what i've heard kinda got on my nerves.
I have long ago dismissed this realm of music during my freshmen year of college. That is all.
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"Intelligent dance music (commonly IDM) is a genre of electronic music derived from dance music of the 1980s and early 1990s which puts an emphasis on novel processing and sequencing.[1] IDM's roots in electronic dance are responsible for the term "Dance" in the genre name, which was originally applied to musicians like Aphex Twin and those on the Warp Records label. Music referred to as IDM is generally abstract, and may range from soft ambient textures to more abrasive noise."
This is basically ambient music when ambient music started to have more beats and rhythm. Intelligent drum and bass is basically squarepusher.
They call it intelligent because (supposedly) you have to put thought into it to enjoy it, like lots of jazz, classical and noise music, it is not very accessible.
they gets no puccini
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last night's party
Do I even like puccini in that way?
I always associated electro-clash with the eighties throwback for some reason. Am I wrong?
i hate the term and the music/fashion thing behind ??t.
Electroclash, a form of music known predominantly to the underground, spawned in the late 1990s in The Hague, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, New York City, and Detroit. The first example of electroclash is often cited as the Dutch artist I-F's 1997 track "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass." The movement emerged in 2000-2002 through Larry Tee's roving, fashion/art/hipster Berliniamsburg, and later at the Mutants club nights, at Club Luxx in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Many deem that Larry Tee coined the term "electroclash", and also began the Electroclash??? Festival which helped him in trademarking the word itself. Tee's early electroclash parties were defined by historically oppressed and/or fringe members of society, including transsexuals, cocaine users. The crowd tended to be dressed in revealing 1980s- sub-culture clothing, while music at such events consisted of obscure New Wave and disco remix records.
I saw ADULT open for Trans Am @ Warsaw in Williamsburg. Shit was hot.
The girls up in the spot had their names Pink Duct taped to their ripped up Black T-shirts.
Shit is dead now.
Im tryin to figure if he called it that or if the girl called it that.