Electro

Hi, here's an article I have done on electro
http://bit.ly/17tabQo
Hope you enjoy it..
Regards
Richard

advice: Post the long link.. At the very least, people will know it actually is a link to your article, not spamming to 'intersting' websites..

also, I don't know if the powers that be will allow this anyway.

interesting

Ah right, it actually was my typo, not some code substituting 'interesting' for 'intersting'

As you were..

Oh ok, was unaware of these rules.

Thanks

Richard

put a donk on it

awesome name, juno plus

can i call you jj+

I don't know if I'd say Clear led to Aux 88, UR, Drexciya etc. There was a good 10 years between. Only people on the west coast cared about electro after the early 80s until the revival in the mid 90s with stuff like Drexciya, DMX Krew, Aux 88, Le Car etc no?

Only people on the west coast cared about electro after the early 80s

This isn't really true:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_bass

true

also latin freestyle

yeah yeah, point is there isn't a continuous line from Clear to mid 90s electro. There was house and techno and even IDM that preceded a distinct electro revival in the early/mid 90s.

Yeah, I agree with that. Early Drexciya or UR doesn't really sound like electro to me, it's pretty firmly techno. So even though they're from Detroit and most likely were familiar with Cybotron, it's not like they started out doing that sound. When they did started doing more electroish tunes, that was around the same time as the electro revival in Europe.

So yeah, while Drexciya and UR and other Detroit artists probably were influenced by Cybotron, Clear didn't lead to a "a surge in Detroit electro acts" in the "immediate term". There's 10+ years between its release and the electro revival, and AFAIK, major Detroit artists weren't doing electro in the late 80s and early 90s.

So who did fill the gap in between ~1983 and ~1998? I mean, there's some freestyle tunes, Miami Bass, and pre-"Straight Outta Compton" West Coast productions that can more or less fit the definition of "electro", and Aux 88 picks it up again in about '93. I always think Ghost Town DJs' "My Boo" fits in somewhere as well, as it was released in '95. But I am always interested in more pre-"Space Invaders are Smoking Grass" electro-revival stuff. What else is out there?

I always think Ghost Town DJs' "My Boo" fits in somewhere as well, as it was released in '95

Atlanta had its own bass scene that was getting more national attention than Miami's by that point.

A-Town Players' album True Players from 1995 is practically an Egyptian Lover tribute record (featuring an appearance from EL himself)