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Originally Posted by djchameleon
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Electronic Reaching back to grab the grooves of '70s disco/funk and the gadgets of electronic composition..... |
About 10-12 years ago I began reading (must have been a thing at the time) that electronica had (has!) something like 270 different subgenres. It's crazy, or it must have driven a few people crazy trying to break it down into those hundreds of itty bitty teensy weensy lumps.
I started listening to 'EDM' in the summer before I started college, about 2001 or so. Friends started dragging me to underground clubs in the Philly/DC area.... sometimes I didn't even know where I was lol, but NOT from drugs or drink, I just didn't worry about where, as long as I was with my besties. I also didn't worry about what to call the music that I really loved.
Funny story, just a few weeks ago I got mega-slammed by a European guy (who claimed to be a DJ) for using the term 'EDM'. He told me that Europeans laugh at Americans who call it that. I wanted to tell him that I ****ing didn't care what he or anyone else wanted to call it, I was just trying to be brief in my messaging.
Terminology is important to some extent and I thank you djchameleon for taking the time and trouble. I also love to read and talk about and explore music history in all of its wonderful and sometimes marvellously majestic forms.
I myself love some old-and-mid-school House music (plus or minus Oakenfold, Benassi etc) and various Trance, probably going back at least 10 years. And I may be wrong but the label that I use for any Trance type music that leans toward monotone and >124 bpm is 'Techno', and in that regard I usually think of myself (in part) as a 'Techno' freak. It's easy for me to see why I categorize like that but not easy to describe to anyone else.
I Love House/Trance 'love songs' like Kristine W's 'Save My Soul' (Gabriel & Dresden Bootleg!!) and some minimal house and ambient trance and I LUST for (more or less) minimal techno artists like Harvey McKay and Trentemoller, and just overall The Beats 'n Bass of so much other stuff in this genre. But the #1 thing with me is mostly about the
DANCE aspect of......
EDM. Electronic DANCE Music.
OF COURSE not all electronica is dance music. EDM. But
****** that's what I like and sometimes that's exactly what I want to call it. ******.
