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Originally Posted by Gregor XIII
There has been a lot of bad electronic/classical hybrids. I heard someone made Disco-Lps in the seventies, which was a symphony orchestra playing famous themes over a discobeat... And there has been a lot of bad stuff like that.
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Originally Posted by clutnuckle
It's generally (generally of course) one of the laziest, most unoriginal, most self-indulgent and downright disrespectful things to do in music. ESPECIALLY when all you're doing is taking Eine kleine Nachtmusik and putting BASSDRUM-HIHAT-CLAP-HIHAT over top of it, then inserting synths and calling it your own.
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Although a lot less well-informed, I agree with
Gregor XIII and
clutknuckle too: there`s a lot more bad out there than good.
Is this the right place to mention Walter Carlos, who did some quite respectful transpositions of classical music to the moog synthesizer back in the early days of electronica ?