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Electronic music refers to music that emphasizes the use of electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology as a central aspect of the sound of the music. Historically, electronic music was considered to be any music created with the use of electronic musical instruments or electronic processing, but in modern times, that distinction has been lost because almost all recorded music today, and the majority of live music performances, depend on extensive use of electronics. Today, the term electronic music serves to differentiate music that uses electronics as its focal point or inspiration, from music that uses electronics mainly in service of creating an intended production that may have some electronic elements in the sound but does not focus upon them.
Contemporary electronic music expresses both art music forms including computer music, experimental music, musique concrète, and others; and popular music forms including multiple styles of dance music such as techno, house, trance, electro, breakbeat, drum and bass, synth pop, etc.
A distinction can be made between instruments that produce sound through electromechanical means as opposed to instruments that produce sound using electronic components.
Examples of electromechanical instruments are the telharmonium, Hammond organ , and the electric guitar, whereas examples of electronic instruments are a Theremin, synthesizer, and a computer.
Contemporary electronic music expresses both art music forms including computer music, experimental music, musique concrète, and others; and popular music forms including multiple styles of dance music such as techno, house, trance, electro, breakbeat, drum and bass, synth pop, etc.
A distinction can be made between instruments that produce sound through electromechanical means as opposed to instruments that produce sound using electronic components.
Examples of electromechanical instruments are the telharmonium, Hammond organ , and the electric guitar, whereas examples of electronic instruments are a Theremin, synthesizer, and a computer.
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| September 2008 | ||
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| Saturday 20 September 2008 | ||
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Treasure Island Music Festival 2008 at Treasure Island
Goldfrapp, Tegan and Sara, Hot Chip, TV on the Radio, The Raconteurs, Justice, Amon Tobin, Okkervil River |
Treasure Island San Francisco, United States |
328 people attending |
| Saturday 27 September 2008 | ||
| Infected Mushroom |
In the Venue Salt Lake City, United States |
18 people attending |
| October 2008 | ||
| Sunday 12 October 2008 | ||
| Laurie Anderson |
McFarlin Auditorium Dallas, Texas, United States |
4 people attending |
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Fast_Mode wrote:
Electronic music forever! Depeche Mode forever!!
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skinnydrifter wrote:
power metal?
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storvikarn wrote:
New Group: For Those Who Probably Will Die While Listening To Music
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goldfischchen wrote:
I won't stop using this. I'll never use 'electronica'!
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anathemaddicted wrote:
Ahhh stop using this bastid tag!!!
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aysegulayse wrote:
what is this allah aşkına.. they are singers of ilahi müzik.
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
even rock music is tagged 'electronic'. last.fm this is a musical kindergarten ...
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Tipheret wrote:
I'm guilty to use this tag :( maybe I should start using organic as well
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
better hate tags than people :-)
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cosimatropina wrote:
Gosh how I hate this tag... Next people start to tag everything as "music"...
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
the wikipedia editors have a controverse discussion about discriminating 'electroning art music' from 'electronic music' and 'electronic dance music'. and it has been suggested not to merge 'computer music' with 'electronic music'. 'electronica' started as a commercial buzz word and not a genre, it was coined by US media to refer to the second wave of popular electronic music in the 90s (the first wave was called 'techno'), and has become an umbrella term, nobody is quite sure what it really means, who tries to define it will easily be attacked. historically, electronic music relied on electronic sound sources to produce music, which isn't necessarily the case in the 'electronica' realm.
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Dai6kan wrote:
Cool , you can quote wikipedia!
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theSill wrote:
Electronic(a) = "Contemporary electronic music expresses both art music forms including computer music, experimental music, musique concrète, and others; and popular music forms including multiple styles of dance music such as techno, house, trance, electro, breakbeat, drum and bass, synth pop, etc." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronica_music
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binksygangster wrote:
or NOT nor FFS
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SirAlecHendrix wrote:
i never ever use the tags 'electronic' nor 'electronica'. because on last.fm this usage created an extended broad pool of very eclectic unrelating music. i like some of björk's songs, and i don't even think about that this is "electronic". the same goes for 'classical', 'new age', 'world', 'ambient', 'rock', 'alternative', etc. etc. we can help ourselves by thinking twice and avoiding such generic swatting tags.
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Dai6kan wrote:
Beacuse electronic instruments are used in so many genres that tag "electronic" tells me nothing about how the artist sounds like. Just look at the top artists; how is Björk similar to Prodigy? That they both use synths? Well, according to that logic, I should tag folk, shoegaze and power metal artists with "guitar", right???
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espowbattery wrote:
why people should really stop using this tag?
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gozombie wrote:
GOZombie
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deauthorized wrote:
YES, please people stop using the ELECTRONIC tag. It's called ELECTRONICA. E. L. E. C. T. R. O. N. I. C. A.
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Wiktorion wrote:
ain't nothing like this stuff.
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