electronica is spreading?

[Jafs]

Originally Posted by dubman

self-absorbed boomkat crowd: DUBSTEP. EVERYTHING ESSENTIAL 12.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Caprice

my friends around the area are continuing to get into electronic music that ranges from the prodigy to massive attack, tiesto to aphex twin.
whenever i encounter these folk i tell them all i can about electronica music even though i've left the scene some time ago. does anyone else notice this trend?

I don't understand the discussion. What is the scene and what is the trend?

[IsiliRunite]

According to MC Ren of NWA, a lot of the scene kid's hip-hop sounds like house music these days.

Its not 4 on the floor necessarily, but you get the idea:

That video does quite well on BET.

With respect to traditional electronic music, I think its a matter of where you are and who your friends are. Most electronic heads are kind of discrete, unlike inde kids, but do still associate with each other. Personally, a good percentage of my friends listen to everything.

[matt]

Originally Posted by Leon

I don't understand the discussion. What is the scene and what is the trend?

I'm with Leon. I mean, it's 2009 people not 1994. "Electronica" is firmly established in the mainstream and those acts you mention in your original post are hardly obscure artists. I mean, even my mum knows who The Prodigy and Massive Attack are.

Have your friends been perhaps ensconced in an Amish Community for the last 15 years or something?

[IsiliRunite]

Keep in mind some people don't live in the Europe, though. Electronic music broke onto the scene in America, commercially, as backing music for movies and ads more than a unique genre that people would by LPs of. I think the trend people are talking about is that it is becoming accepted by a wider percentage of music fans in North America? something along those lines. Personally, its bleeding into different genres a lot more than it had before.

[Caprice]

Originally Posted by matt

I'm with Leon. I mean, it's 2009 people not 1994. "Electronica" is firmly established in the mainstream and those acts you mention in your original post are hardly obscure artists. I mean, even my mum knows who The Prodigy and Massive Attack are.

Have your friends been perhaps ensconced in an Amish Community for the last 15 years or something?

Where I live, Massive Attack and The Prodigy are a rarity. But it's not just here, it's all over. You're more likely to find people who have heard of Lady Gaga and Shiny Toy Guns rather than the former two.

What I think is that electronica may be splitting. Just an idea that has occurred at this moment but it seems to make sense.

Electronica will be broken down into classic electronica? sort of like when Rock was split into Classic Rock and Rock.

Because I agree, it isn't so much that electronica is spreading over here, but rather, the genres are growing so much, encapsulating so much, that they are blending together. I can listen to current bands today (couldn't tell you the names) from my friends and notice the different influences. I do not stay up to speed with current artists these days that my peers seem to adhere to (whatever MTV shows). maybe I should, just to see what the fuck everyone is listening to.

(i honestly use wikipedia to find new bands/music, and i rarely, RARELY buy a new cd that recently came out. example: I'm about to buy rythym and stealth by Leftfield, even though I've owned Leftism for years)

[Sean]

I feel like electronic music has gotten so broad as to be very hard to categorize. It seems more like electronic elements have just been absorbed into the library of instruments available for musicians to use, and the music it's in ranges from rock, to dance, to dub, to whatever else. I know that on the latest stuff I'm recording, I'm starting to use more of a blend of electronic and live elements. I just love the sound of it...

[den]

Ah, the halcyon days when electronica was supposed to kill rock and roll. Whatever the scene now is, I'm sure there's something new and exciting going on, you just have to find it. Back in the 90's, it was the Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Prodigy, and all of the usual suspects. But I would not look towards them now to lead the way. Take bands like U2 or Pearl Jam. Are they still good and relevant? Sure. But are they going to blow your mind with something so cutting edge that you've never heard before? Probably not.

Someone around here, it may have been Scott, used to say that electronica desperately needs a Nirvana or a punk rock (this was quite a while ago too). It's got to be out there somewhere.

[froopy seal]

Originally Posted by Caprice

my friends around the area are continuing to get into electronic music that ranges from the prodigy to massive attack, tiesto to aphex twin.

None of the friends I still have from school is remotely interested in electronic music; all pop, rock, singer-songwriter, punk, alternative. Air - Moon Safari, after much convincing, or The Prodigy, or some stupid mid-90's eurodance might get the occasional rotation but that's it.

Of course, they aren't truely open to my arguing that much of nowadays popular music is electronically-made, hence electronic in a wider sense. Which might be just as good, since it would be a shame to put it all in one melting pot with the branch of music we like to regard as the "real" electronic music, would it?