MUSIC

[karl momrik]

Who are the top people making electronic music these days?

[Nevyn Nowhere]

Top meaning album sales?  How much they tour?  How much press they get?  Personal taste?  Etc?  Who do you like and why?

-nn
happyhumans.org

[Daniel Thompson]

I would think Imogen Heap purely based on mainstream exposure right now. But that might be debatable with others. Electronic music as a genre is starting to become more of the current Pop craze as well so I think we'll see a jump in more popular electronic artists.

Daniel Thompson
http://danielquasar.comuf.com

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 3:20 PM, karl momrik <km90...@gmail.com> wrote:

[bubbles]

Imogen Heap is electronic? She's Alternative (which is the Itunes
classification)at best, more so a Singer Songwriter (wikipedia). No
offense but I am amazed what people think is electronic these days.

Try checking out Caspa, Ital Tek, Matthew Dear, Bill Laswell(some of his
recent stuff).

But if you want the latest; the stuff pushing limits of electronic, you
need not look outside of Portland: Prophetnoise, Masmod, bubbles (that's
my stuff www.bubblesmusic.net), bllix, and many more.

and PRA (Portland Radio Authority) has a great ambient/downtempo show
mondays 6-8 called Optic Echo Presents on the internet.

Now to sit back and wait to see the responses...

Peace,
bubbles

[Daniel Thompson]

I dunno what electronic is then. I mean she works with synths, samples, and live instruments. So at least she is partial. I dunno.

Wiki says this about electronic music:

"...music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production."

"Today electronic music includes many varieties and ranges from experimental art music to popular forms such as electronic dance music."


I was merely making an observation because I see her as a electronic musician at least in part. I also find her as inspiration in the electronic music I make myself. Which, without obviously advertising myself, can be found here: http://danielquasar.comuf.com/music


Daniel Thompson
http://danielquasar.comuf.com

[Erica Dunham]

I'm local and I write electronic stuffs:

myspace/stray23
/unternull
/semotusvita
/exesum
/deathpanel

-Erica

Sent from my iPhone

[bubbles]

Glad to check it out. I'll friend you.

-bubbles

[bubbles]

Daniel,

I meant no disrespect. And I'm checking out your tunes as we speak.

For me when thinking of music and where to place it within a genre I think
of the purpose/intent of the artist. for example a person could record a
banjo in a song without the song becoming bluegrass.
Also a person could fully compose a bluegrass song completely without a
real instrument (composed on the computer).

Defining the music simply by instrumentation poses many problems.

I think that to be electronic music it must contain 2 or more of the
following features...

1. electronic instruments/A computer
2. Inability to reproduce the music without a CPU (whether in a computer
or other synth or box)
3. Intent to create sounds that are unreproducible with traditional
acoustic instruments.
4. a direct exploration of established Electronic music genres AKA
Techno/trance, house, Drum n' bass, breaks, ambient all with many sub
genres.
5. All sounds are built from the basic sine, triangle, square, and noise
wavesforms.

I think when things go "pop" then they must be moved from their previous
genre to the genre of Pop. Like the pop hop (Rap/hip-hop) you would hear
on 107.5 (aka Kenye West, t-pain, Ton Loc {da da da da da Wildthing!})

That being said Portland actually has many really good EM artists in many
genres of EM. I would venture a guess that PDX is going to gain national
notoriety on its electronic artist just like the Indy rock scene did.

I know for sure Solipsistic Nation (a EM podcast from SD) is doing a
showcase on PDX EM producers sometime in the next month or so. you can
find the podcast on Itunes and http://solipsisticnation.com/ It's also a
really good show to learn about the variety of EM music!

My 2 cents,
bubbles
www.bubblesmsuic.net
www.reverbnation.com/bubblesmusic

[Daniel Thompson]

No worries. No disrespect felt. Thanks for checking out my tunes. I wish I had more for you to hear. I do but they aren't finished enough for release. ;)

Daniel Thompson
http://danielquasar.comuf.com

[Nevyn Nowhere]

That's really the fun thing about electronic music, and this list.  Some people lean more the DJ route, some lean the more M83, radiohead song types.  Some go further in the pop realm to things more tinged with electronic, some go the experimental route, some the dark gothy route, some the gypsy dance route, etc... electronic music is in so many genres it can mean something different to everyone.  This list was created in hopes that more of these subgenres might find how they have things in common, under the umbrella of electronic music.

-nn
happyhumans.org

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:41 PM, bubbles <bub...@bubblesmusic.net> wrote:

[Nevyn Nowhere]

1. electronic instruments/A computer
2. Inability to reproduce the music without a CPU (whether in a computer
or other synth or box)

I'll say yes these first two seem universally applicable for electronic music; ie the usage of electronics.
 

3. Intent to create sounds that are unreproducible with traditional
acoustic instruments.

This one is usually applicable, but there are instances where that is not the case.
 

4. a direct exploration of established Electronic music genres AKA
Techno/trance, house, Drum n' bass, breaks, ambient all with many sub
genres.

I actually disagree with this one.  If all electronic music is a direct exploration of established electronic music, then nothing electronic could ever explore outside these bounds, and certainly there is electronic music that already does that.  That's kind of the neat thing about electronic music nowadays, folks are coming from places other than a rave/more dj based type of sound to find the love of electronic music.  Or come from there and other places.
 

5. All sounds are built from the basic sine, triangle, square, and noise
wavesforms.

Totally disagree here.  I use a lot of organic sounds to create base tones for synths, or utilize field recordings (sometimes just as samples, sometimes chopped fucked up to a degree where they're a rhythm, sometimes as a synth tone base, sometimes for drum sounds).

 

I know for sure Solipsistic Nation (a EM podcast from SD) is doing a
showcase on PDX EM producers sometime in the next month or so.  you can
find the podcast on Itunes and http://solipsisticnation.com/ It's also a
really good show to learn about the variety of EM music!

That's really great to hear about!

-nn
happyhumans.org