(April 12, 2009 at 1:59 am)athoughtfulman Wrote: I'm not a fan of all the electro around today either
(my bolding obviously)
--Yeah I'm pretty much with you there...I personally think that electronica, techno, electro dance-trance etc has been best between 1989-99
I liked the interesting change of style around the millennium - but it seemed to go down hill after that for me.
My favourite bands seemed to form about around the time I was born funnily enough--when Acid House was around, etc - coming out of Detroit Techno.
I think 1989-1999 is my favourite period.
Orbital, Underworld, Leftfield, Moby, etc - they all started around late-very late 80s.
I personally think in comparison that elecronic music tends to suck a lot today - it's all kind of the same and very cheesy and doesn't seem to have much thought into it. Seems to be very shallow and at times - pretty mindless.
I quite like Royksopp that started at 2001 - but they still can't hold ground with Orbital and Underworld, etc - for me.
My favourite band around at the moment is definitely Long Range - the experimental electronica band with Phil Harnoll from Orbital and Nick Smith - who does quite clubby music I think I heard.
Nick also did the music to the opening credits to the movie Hannibal.
Anyway I think Long Range are absolutely superb - it's newer but Phil Hartnoll is from Orbital and he started in 1989 - and it's not exactly commercial - I hate that commercial dance shit! - No, it's very experimental - and electronica covers very wide areas in music.
EvF
