How did Electroclash change your life?

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no one made fun of me for having wax trax records anymore.

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 5 May 2005 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I love this thread already.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 May 2005 05:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Dancing wasn't lame any longer. It was perfect timing for me since I was just getting into drinking and being a lame ass scenester.

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Thursday, 5 May 2005 05:30 (twenty-one years ago)

it got me back into electronic music

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 5 May 2005 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It bought me a new pair of shoes and put me up for the night.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 5 May 2005 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It helped me establish a cocaine habit that's cost me my job and my relationship.

― flunkie, Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

It meant that all the hipsters stopped driving the prices up on my precious power pop records and started driving the prices up on some crap I don't care about at all.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 5 May 2005 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It validated musically the paranoia and inadequacy I already felt whenever I went to clubs.

― $V£N! (blueski), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

it made you feel superior?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It made me kind of rediscover the great synthpop records of the 80s, and also made me love a lot of current non-guitar-based stuff again. Plus it has given me a more optimistic view on chartpop (which will hopefully be even more optimistic when R&B vanishes from the pop charts)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it made me put the YELLO and SOFT CELL LPs,
the 82/83 era DEPECHE 12"S and the
DURAN "DECADE" COMP nearer the front of my vinyl collection.

if that counts.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It raised the value of my apartment in Williamsburg.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

it got me back into electronic music

same here!

and people didn't make fun of all of my gary numan and depeche mode rekkids anymore!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It ushered in an Italo appreciation for me, although, the crowd when I'm DJ'ing doesn't seem to appreciate it. It also forced me to look at some Post-Punk when Electroclash groups that I didn't like stormed the scene.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It gave me a good excuse to traverse over to indie from the beardy idm reaches I was almost stuck in. Apparently the bridge goes both ways!

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

you know, i didn't realize that this was going to be a semi-serious thread *and* a non-snarky one, too. I'm a bit happy now. see me smile ---> :]

― donut debonair (donut), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

electroclash made me see that Jaques Lu Cont wasn't as crazy as I thought he was, he was actually on to something.

― modernaire, I wanna be, Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Electroclash loved me for the person I was, not the person it wanted me to be.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

An Electroclash thread was the first place I was quoted on ILM (I think it was Tracer).

Electroclash made me realize that many people require an ironic distance from the act of dancing (in order to dance themselves).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Must be why I was recently faetured as a don't in vice magazine when I was cought dancing in earnest.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

It gave me something new to joke about. And its endorsement of recreational crack use gave hipsters hope for vacant apartments.

Honestly, the "dance-punk" boom affected me more than electroclash ever did. I was DJing a lot in Seattle at the time, and my postpunk records seemed quite au courant.

― mike a, Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

She made me wear a gorilla suit!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it made me listen to more acoustic music.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't see the Italo link here. Italo disco was a much bigger influence on 90s Eurodance than it is on Electroclash and other electro. The current stuff is mainly influenced by early 80s synthpop from the UK.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

it paid my rent.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

it pretty much hammered the nails into the coffin of drum and bass for me.

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

what, you've heard that d'n'b cover of "a forest," then?

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it taught us how to live. it taught us how to love. every fad boy has a soft side.

― latebloomer: But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. (latebloomer), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It pre-identified the wankers who were going to pretend nouveau-nouvelle-vague was important or a good idea.

― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

no, i haven't, but i love the nouvelle vague cover of "a forest"!

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 6 May 2005 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It made me realize that a roomful of sallow people with electric tape on their tatas no es sexy .

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 6 May 2005 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

electroclash made it acceptable for me to wear my favorite color: NEON PINK.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 6 May 2005 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

That is my second favorite color, Maria!

Neon Green
Neon Pink
Orange
Yellow

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Friday, 6 May 2005 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My friends in this band called Adult. got kinda famous for a minute, and that in turn got me a few writing gigs with NME, Sleazenation, and Paper long before i deserved them.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 6 May 2005 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Having just moved to NYC when it emerged (har har), it made me feel good to know that I wasn't just imagining all these people were kind of full of shit and listening to bad music.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 6 May 2005 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

made me pissed that people were trying to be ironic or parody the 80's culture when half of them weren't even alive to remember it. on the flip side, inspired me to wear my old ministry t-shirt just for old times sake.

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Friday, 6 May 2005 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

RETRO 80's ELECTROCLASH PUNK

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 6 May 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

A Nintendo belt? How utterly ghey can you get?

Electroclash taught me who my enemies are, musically anyway.

― modernaire, I wanna be, Friday, 6 May 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

electroclash was very informed by italo-disco, especially some of the better stuff that electroclash was built out of, as opposed to the crappy stuff that wanna-be electroclash bands started playing. When it all started, one of the key tracks was the version of I-F's Crocadiles in the Sky that isn't on the Parallax Corporation CD but is on the Cocadisco II 12", this one:

http://www.discogs.com/release/8374

And geir, maybe you're talking about the bulk of mid to late 80s italo-disco, but the early 80s italo that people like me geek out on not only heavily influenced(and continues to influence) current electroclash and electro, but heavily influenced the 80s UK New Wave that you speak of, and vice versa. So I wouldn't say there's no Italo link.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 May 2005 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a lot more $$ for my fugly used '80s Members Only jacket on eBay than I had any right to. Irony was not only in effect clothes-wise -- it met men's hairstyles for serious, which seems to not have gone away, or to have moved to the 'stache area anyway (irony has no place whatsoever on my own head nor in my record collection...) Also, OMD records were way too expensive for about 5 months.

I can't believe Larry Tee is still a "name" DJ. He like tours the country and shit, still, you know? Ack. That song "White Cotton Panties" on his first comp. was awesome, though...

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Friday, 6 May 2005 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Larry Tee played down in Brighton as "The Godfather of Electroclash" and everybody went "Who?"

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 6 May 2005 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Electroclash got me laid.

― Kaiser of Köln (Kaiser of Köln), Friday, 6 May 2005 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Early 80s Italo disco? That would be Giorgio Moroder....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 6 May 2005 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

geir wrong as usual.......

electroclash made me have a club and a regular dj set, and that's been the backbone of everything else falling into place. thank you electroclash!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 6 May 2005 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the scenester and blatantly opportunistic aspects of electroclash made it annoying and there was a lot of crap released under the electroclash moniker, but you can say that about any music scene...i never really got into the larry tee thing either, but i love "emerge" and the rapture. more than anything though, i like electro-house, the catalyst for which was mixed up in the hague (and yes, italo, and new beat and etc).

― prada robot (disco stu), Friday, 6 May 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

it made all my new beat/wonka beat records seem relevant again...

Rock to the Beat anyone???

― benoit, Friday, 6 May 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Geir, I'm talking about:

http://www.discogs.com/label/Il+Discotto+Productions

for starters.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

PappaWheelie to thread.

Yeah, when ElectroClash became a bad word, he and Conrad started billing their next set of events as ElectrDiskoPunk.

Fuckers.

All I can say is Kitbuilders.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

He=Larry Tee.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

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