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Electroclash article in Newsweek!
This week's issue of Newsweek magazine features a short article called "Plugging in to Electroclash - There’s a new new wave, and it’s making a splash on the dance floor."
It specifically mentions groups The Faint, Soviet and Fischerspooner. Nice publicity for the genre! Too bad they didn't mention Electrogarden...
Here's the URL for the online version of the article:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/780017.asp
Nice publicity yes... but I am already afraid what the major labels and media may end up doing to this scene.
They will squeeze it as a lemon until it's dry, and after some time when everyone is dead sick of all those artificial "neuelectro" and "electroclash" they create, they move on to the next thing-to-listen-to. The only good thing comming out of it is money for some artists that spent enough time in obscurity.
The bad thing is all the idiots we'll have to deal with, that will listen to it just 'cause "my MTV VJ told me to do it".
"Nu-Metal ? Hip-Hop ?That's so yesterday dear!!!!!! Everyone get aboard the electroclash train!!!"
Maybe I'm just getting paranoid and having a negative view of things.
Yeah, the author certainly did throw around a lot of cool, hip-sounding "names" for this genre - which seem to be essentially meaningless... Ultimately, such labels may confuse readers, I think...
On the other hand, if articles like this attract more listeners to electronic/synth music, that's definitely a good thing!
Where do they get those names ?? Do they make them up ? Do they have people paid to come up with those things ?? What do they do ? Sit in an office debating like "Yeah.... synth-core sounds cool!!! The kids will bite right into it!!! Will sell lotsa records!!"
Well, the genre seems to be germinating once again. Thanks to the people in England....... With the emergence of the band like: Fischerspooner (DJ Hell & the gang) occupying prestige chart positions in U.K charts........ We'll see if the rave is happening here in the USA mainstream charts.
\"The love in the world begins with the love within ourselves.\"
The only thing that continually bothers me about articles such as this is the constant affinity with the 80's. Yeah, synthpop was popular in the 80's, but that doesn't mean that current synthpop bands are trying to relive the fashions and lifestyles of that era. I prefer bands that want to make song-based electronic music NOW, using whatever fashions and styles they want to use, not just the "skinny ties" that were big in 1985. Just because we like synthpop doesn't mean we want to relive another era. I just like the music. Articles like this make the entire synthpop genre look like a revivalist nightmare.
\"I saw weird stuff in that place last night. Weird, strange, sick, twisted, eerie, godless, evil stuff. And I want in.\"
- Homer Simpson
I couldn't agree with you more, interface2x. It's easy to assume that today's groups are just regurgitating the song styles of the '80s, but that does the whole electronic/synth music genre a tremendous injustice. I love the music, and it stands on its own -- not because it's derivative of some 80s sound, but because it's great music of its own merit!
Well said.Originally posted by interface2x
The only thing that continually bothers me about articles such as this is the constant affinity with the 80's. Yeah, synthpop was popular in the 80's, but that doesn't mean that current synthpop bands are trying to relive the fashions and lifestyles of that era. I prefer bands that want to make song-based electronic music NOW, using whatever fashions and styles they want to use, not just the "skinny ties" that were big in 1985. Just because we like synthpop doesn't mean we want to relive another era. I just like the music. Articles like this make the entire synthpop genre look like a revivalist nightmare.
I completely agree with you.
All I ever want is to hear some electronic music with pop elements. I didn't want to become new breed of Greatful
Dead hippie clones who trying to relieve the 80s era....
Soon, kids will travel around with all black clothes
and follow Depeche Mode and smoke cloves...
Wait!!! That's happening now....
www.myspace.com/pswk
www.popstarwhokills.com (ElectroRock)
www.myspace.com/youngjoon (Breaks)
www.myspace.com/grep (IDM)
www.myspace.com/requiemnoise (Industrial)
\"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.\"
- Pablo Picasso
\"The world only goes round by misunderstanding.\"
- Charles Baudelaire
\"It is quality, not quantity.\"
\"why is it feel like a greatful dead show here? like that hippe that constantly talks about one band and how they changed their lives.\"
PLEASE NO MORE \"I am a robot music.\" You are not a robot. Learn to program better like human beings.\"
Electro is House music. If you don\'t like House music, please don\'t put down Electro, because it is trendy to say it. It might suprise you that Electro and House music were invented by Gay Black Americans in the mid 80s. They weren\'t invented by the beatless people who like to coin new trendy phrases.
I am so tired of \"I want to be Depeche Mode or Erasure for the last 25 years.\" I hope I am not the only one. 25 years is a quarter of century and about a 1/3 of human life. If a person spends a 1/3 of his or her life having the same tastes, I don\'t know if that person acquired enough information to have an interesting life or has a problem understanding he or she is no longer a teenager.
So called artists who never change, why do you call yourself an artist again?
"On the other hand, if articles like this attract more listeners to electronic/synth music, that's definitely a good thing!" - ChuckFrey
I agree wholeheatedly with that statement!!!
"The only thing that continually bothers me about articles such as this is the constant affinity with the 80's. Yeah, synthpop was popular in the 80's, but that doesn't mean that current synthpop bands are trying to relive the fashions and lifestyles of that era. I prefer bands that want to make song-based electronic music NOW, using whatever fashions and styles they want to use, not just the "skinny ties" that were big in 1985. Just because we like synthpop doesn't mean we want to relive another era. I just like the music. Articles like this make the entire synthpop genre look like a revivalist nightmare." - interface2x
PERFECT.
I feel that Brand New Idol has retro influences, but we make NEW electronic music. We are not trying to rehash 80s music. We love that music, we grew up with it and it permeates what we do, but it is not our goal to recreate it.
I think Electroclash has got to be nothing but good for the scene. Soviet is really deserving of all the accolades in having been caught up in this wave, and I have a feeling that before long, all the electroclashers will make their way down to the rest of our cosy little scene.
I think the best thing for bands in the scene to do is: Don't try to change your sound in an attempt to "fit in" with the electroclash thing, be yourself ... but at the same time don't be affraid to associate yourself with this movement. I could see a lot of artists in this scene (specifically Freezepop, Ganymede, Empire State Human, Joy Electric, Norway, Gary Flanagan) which could benefit greatly from association with this phenomenon.
In fact it looks like Joy Electric is trying to do that already ... as evidenced by the new track "Dancing to Moroder"
Its cool that bands like Soviet and Fischerspooner are even getting mentioned in a magazine with big distribution. Even if it is spreading some disinformation it can't do anything but help sales and the scene in general.
Someone should write a letter to Newsweek and explain how we really aren't stuck in the 80s.
-steve
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