Electronic Music Genres?

[Vicky]

Ok, so I am bored.
So what are these called these days?

I remember titles like electroclash, synthpop, dnb, industrial but I am not sure how many of these have survived.

Anybody keen on what stuff is called these days? Lets say here are some, so what genre would they be called?

Mesh
Dave Gahan
Nine Inch Nails
And One

[MiscGenius]

what? ahahahahaaa

all that stuff is just one type electro

??? you think ???

[Vicky]

what? ahahahahaaa

all that stuff is just one type electro

??? you think ???

Ya' think? Maybe we need some electronic music "experts" to tell us the real story :).

[Vertigo]

sorry but what do you want to know? :D

[duhb]

i also want to know what is the current suff called
who knows just say it out loud lol

like is moby electronica or what

[Vicky]

sorry but what do you want to know? :D

I just wanted to know what are the latest genre names for all this stuff. Is there a hot new style that is making waves? :)

[Vertigo]

it's synthpop!

[Synthpopalooza]

It's all about the synthpop, baby!

[Vicky]

Really, synthpop?
We had lots of discussions on here about that :) and seems that always at some point things would roll back around to the synthpop catch-all!

[Vertigo]

there are many influences in all musical genres

[unreadpages]

This site seems to be pretty synthpoppy. NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT!...it's just that I don't do it. Then there's IDM (intelligent dance music - as opposed to "the other kind"? - ooh, not very complimentary). And DnB e.g. the great Squarepusher, who seems to play instruments pretty well too; then there's "experimental electronica" - what is that? (I think that's what the stuff I do is called - sometimes). Aaaargh, it gets rather arbitrary. Someone help!

[Dusty Chalk]

Here are a couple I'm familiar with:

Synthpop -- pop music with a synthetic flair;
Industrial -- hard music that sounds like it's made by machines;
EBM -- somewhere between the two -- beaty;
Techno -- not sure any more, it used to be that stuff that we heard in the clubs, now that's "Disco", I think...mebbe it's "House"...I forget, all I know is, I don't go clubbin' in those kinds of clubs no mo';
Glitch -- music that sounds like your computer regurgitating;
Electronica -- umbrella genre for all this stuff -- music that is made by synthesizers and/or computers;
Electro -- not sure, this might be what I just called Electronica, or maybe I got it right;
Electroclash -- Sprockets music;
Industrial/Metal Crossover -- Hard music with both Synthesizers/Computers and guitars;
Electro-Goth -- Darker synthpop -- synthpop is usually lighter fare.

...not sure what to call stuff like Gary Numan, Garbage, Stabbing Westward (synthesizers and guitars, but not metal nor industrial) -- hard pop? And where the L would Halou go? Not so much synth-pop as electro-pop...and what about Haujobb, who started out as industrial, dabbled in glitch, and are now some sort of glitch/industrial hybrid (Vertical Theory, Polarity).

But I agree with everyone that says that labels are not important -- these descriptions are only there for starting points, describing an act's music is much more useful than trying to find a pigeonhole for them. And don't tell me "just get it, it's good" -- that has a terrible tendency to turn me off, for no fault of yours -- I've listened to this advice and been burned by getting something I really didn't like too many times. So, please, try harder than "this roxors my soxors".

[Nautilus]

I most definitely say that the name(s) do(es) not matter other than perhaps to guide someone who has never heard of a band to discover them by association to a general style. When it gets too specific, things get corwded and confusing under the same umbrella and it gets more and more difficult to put the bead on something when in the end the band typically just says that "we are diverse beyond the label given" anyhow.

[cosmicity]

I would say every last one of those 4 bands listed at the start of this thread is just an Electronic band. It's all Electronic music. Everything else confuses regular people, you know? But if you say, oh it's Electronic music and they say what kind, then I just equate the sound with a few known bands. Sounds like Depeche Mode meets Kraftwerk... that sort of thing. You know?

[A04]

Genres and where to start with them...

Noise, rhythmic noise, abstract, experimental...

EBM, industrial, dark elektro, hellektro...

synthpop, electropop, synthiepop, futurepop

new wave, no wave, neoretro, retro, wave

disco punk, dub disco, electroclash, electro, dirty electro, electro house...

17 kinds of trance (at least)

and more...

[MiscGenius]

I would say every last one of those 4 bands listed at the start of this thread is just an Electronic band. It's all Electronic music. Everything else confuses regular people, you know? But if you say, oh it's Electronic music and they say what kind, then I just equate the sound with a few known bands. Sounds like Depeche Mode meets Kraftwerk... that sort of thing. You know?

that is what makes sense to me
seems alot easier to just let people know some bands that something may sound like and not provide some dictionary explanation :nixweiss:

[Red and Shiny]

Ok, so I am bored.
So what are these called these days?

I remember titles like electroclash, synthpop, dnb, industrial but I am not sure how many of these have survived.

And One

So what is electroclash anyway?
Also what does dnb stand for. I am assuming that is an achronym.

[Dusty Chalk]

drum'n'bass -- loosely related to "jungle"

Electroclash -- sounds like music written in the 80's. Not sure how it's different than synthpop other than I can tell when I hear it.

[A04]

Electroclash was a term that only a few artists really clamped onto...but essentially it tried to put the 80s club glitz back into a raw electro sound. It's influenced by the early 80s electro sound (Human League, Soft Cell, Gary Numan...) but there's also elements of Italodisco in there as well.

Being a child of the 80s, I don't remember the sexual overtones that they try to associate with the sound, but whatever...

I also didn't listen to anything that sounded like "Chicks on Speed", but whatever.

Once people started calling it electroclash, however, the sound had already reverted back into basic electro...now everything seems to be going discopunk which is still essentially the same thing.

It's like watching "Happy Days" to understand the 50s or "That 70s Show" to understand the 70s.