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  • gokada
    Getting Somewhere
    • Jun 2004
    • 216

    So what's with all the <insert concept i can't understand here>?

    I personally can't stand this form of EDM...what a lack of feeling...I feel like I time warped back to the 80's...so in an effort to understand it, what is it about electro that has everyone jumping on the bandwagon? Why has it blown up so much? I'd like someone to explain to me why so many people like it. Please help me understand...I just don't get it, or feel it, or like it, or agree with it...I know music progresses, but this is actually a regression back to simplicity, non-complexity, and out and out bad music...Not to be sarcastic or anything, but I would rather listen to AM talk radio than this...please help me see the light so I can understand it better...

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    Last edited by skahound; October 24, 2005, 01:44:06 PM.
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  • feather
    Shanghai ooompa loompa
    • Jul 2004
    • 20901

    #2
    Re: So what's with all the electro?

    I blame it on Felix Da Housecat

    i_want_to_have_sex_with_electronic_music

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    a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
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    Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.

    I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.

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    • picklemonkey
      Double hoodie beer monster
      • Jun 2004
      • 15373

      #3
      Re: So what's with all the electro?

      I personally think it's skahound's fault. it all started getting electro-ish when he got enganged to his wife... before that we never had to deal with this electro bullshit.

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      • Turbonetic
        Getting Somewhere
        • Jan 2005
        • 149

        #4
        Re: So what's with all the electro?

        electro is a lot different than it was in the 80's. the purists wouldn't even call what you're talking about electro. and i'm not that big of a fan of the old style electro, some of the new stuff has progressed far beyond what electro used to be.

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        • AntonyM
          DUDERZ get a life!!!
          • Oct 2004
          • 6415

          #5
          Re: So what's with all the electro?

          I think simplicity may be part of the appeal, but also the tripped out sounds
          that remind me a lot of the old acid house synths. After all it is all audio
          frequencies and certain ones have certain reactions on people. Furthermore,
          what could be called collectively tech electro house music is not all
          Alter Ego and Tiefschwarz(sp?) it has turned a lot of my friends on the
          more Zabiela like minimal tech as heard on some his 4 part comp.
          Dancefloor freaks love cracked out sound when they are on their meds...
          so to speak. Just wait, minimal tech stuff like Martinez and Joel Mull
          will only get more popular as top shelf DJ's work them into their sets.
          The distance seperating Autechre(sp?) and Mandy vs Booka Shade
          is getting smaller everyday but that why there is also Alican/Sonar
          Cattaneo and VSag to balance things out.
          Originally posted by Shpira
          So came back last night...
          Sven Vath was amazing...he played a god damn killer set...ended up going to that and came to at like 10 am in some whore house in south Amsterdam...no idea how I ended up there...friday was a bit of a blur got really drunk and visited several parties can't remember a whole lot to be honest hehe...saturday was probably the best day that I recall...started up in the nearest coffee shop and going from party to party...beautiful woman, beer and weed...finished the night by taking some shrooms and listening to an amazing elke kleijn set...sunday...i met a nice girl who worked at one of the coffee shops and ended up talking to her for like 6 hours...was supposed to meet her at some DnB party...but instead went for a steak and walked around red light district bars drinking and smoking...monday took it easy went to a coffee shop and took a taxi to airport....

          All in all...I think I will be going back there some time soon
          Originally posted by Illuminate
          Let me get this straight.

          So white-middle class Americans have been told by their Television sets to be fearful of:

          1. Mexicans/Latinos from the South bringing drugs and killings n' shit.
          2. African Americans cause mos def they are raging a race war and want to occupy America like how the plebs occupied Wall St.
          3. Iranians/Afghans/Any one of middle eastern origin to be quite frank, cause you know Islam...
          4. North Koreans/Chinese cause you know everything...

          Am I close here?

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          • hypoluxxa
            Are you Kidding me??
            • Jun 2004
            • 3371

            #6
            Re: So what's with all the electro?

            Electro is the reason why I never post in most boards. I have nothing nice to say, so I don't want to sound like a bitter old man.

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            • MJ
              Here since 2002
              • Jun 2004
              • 6560

              #7
              Re: So what's with all the electro?

              I blame it on the boogy.
              mjwebhosting you know it makes sense



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              • Kamal
                Administrator
                • May 2002
                • 28835

                #8
                Re: So what's with all the electro?

                so go pick your nose
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                • MJ
                  Here since 2002
                  • Jun 2004
                  • 6560

                  #9
                  Re: So what's with all the electro?

                  Done.. want a chew?
                  mjwebhosting you know it makes sense



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                  • Kamal
                    Administrator
                    • May 2002
                    • 28835

                    #10
                    Re: So what's with all the electro?

                    not after its been through that mouth
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                    Jib says:
                    he isnt worth the water that splashes up into your asshole while you're shitting
                    Originally posted by ace_dl
                    Guys and Gals, I have to hurry/leaving for short-term vacations.
                    I won't be back until next Tuesday, so if Get Carter is the correct answer, I would appreciate of someone else posts a new cap for me

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                    • skahound
                      Someone MARRY ME!! LOL
                      • Jun 2004
                      • 11411

                      #11
                      Re: So what's with all the electro?

                      8 billion other topics on the same subject. Before you go throwing the term 'electro' around, why don't you do your research to find out what 'electro' really is. Then come back and we'll have a discussion. Although, I don't think there will be anything to discuss anymore.
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                      • Kinetic
                        Platinum Poster
                        • Jun 2004
                        • 2227

                        #12
                        Re: So what's with all the electro?

                        Oh please not this again...

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                        • chuckc
                          DUDERZ get a life!!!
                          • Jun 2004
                          • 5459

                          #13
                          Re: So what's with all the electro?

                          Personally it is getting harder and harder to find a dj that plays a complete set of quality track after quality track...of any genre. A set will sound good then it ususally will taper off....Or there will be a good track and then a bad track.

                          Seems like the production has taken a step back the last year year and a half.....there still good tracks but many more poor tracks than quality tracks.

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                          • Steve Graham
                            DJ Jelly
                            • Jun 2004
                            • 12887

                            #14
                            Re: So what's with all the electro?

                            i agree ska.. sometimes i feel people hear a certain electro type sound in a bassline and think, oh no this is electro... wrong.
                            one of my mates plays "electro" and believe me it isnt what a lot people think is electro. Digweed does NOT play electro

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                            • chuckc
                              DUDERZ get a life!!!
                              • Jun 2004
                              • 5459

                              #15
                              Re: So what's with all the electro?

                              Originally posted by unome
                              Digweed does NOT play electro
                              what does digweed play now? It sure isnt the same style as what i remember him playing for most of his career.

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