Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] New Linux soundapp site progress
From: Paul Winkler (pw_lists_AT_slinkp.com)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 21:31:32 EEST
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:26:17AM -0600, Will Benton wrote:
> "Electronica" seems to be the accepted catch-all term for music made
> with those sorts of tools or similar (i.e. techno, ambient, d&b,
> etc.), and I don't think anyone would hear "electronica" and think
> "Stockhausen", "Schaeffer", or "IRCAM". But I could be wrong.
I think you're right. I have two quibbles:
1) As I understand it, certain holdout underground dance music
zealots insist that "electronica" is a fabrication of the media
and has no bearing on "real" underground dance music. I'm not
a member of that camp, I think it's a useful term, but I'm
inclined to be sympathetic.
2) A more serious objection IMO:
I don't think anyone considers hip-hop to be part of electronica, but
the tools used are more or less identical, and for a software site
the tools clearly belong together. Hip-hop is such a major branch of
music today that I don't think it's right to not take this into account.
So I favor "Digital DJ" or something similar. Focusing on tools and
methods, not genres.
--PW
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