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Who uses the word 'electronica'?

Veracohr	Date: January 29, 2006 @ 4:21 AM When you walk into a record store, the electronic music section is almost always labeled 'electronica'. The same goes for most music hosting sites. But no one who is actually involved in the making of electronic music would be caught dead calling it 'electronica'. So why does everyone else? I don't understand this. It's not a big deal, it's just a ponderfluence on my mind at the moment.
tooles	Date: January 29, 2006 @ 4:37 AM I got nothing for you man. It's all 'electronica' to me too.
TameasDust	Date: January 29, 2006 @ 11:03 AM considerin how many varieties od electronic music there are ... electronica covers it like mythology covers roman greek and norse myths
pangtera	Date: January 29, 2006 @ 12:38 PM I call all of it techno...
hantu	Date: January 29, 2006 @ 12:57 PM LOL
Apertome	Date: January 29, 2006 @ 2:18 PM "electronica" makes me cringe. If you want to use a generic term, why not call all of it "electronic?" Pangtera, you just killed me.
aflunky	Date: January 29, 2006 @ 2:26 PM I call it Music to Kill By
pmscpc	Date: January 30, 2006 @ 2:34 AM The same could be said for all genres, but I too wondered about the requirement for an addtional "a" on the end of Electronic. How about petitioning for an extra "o" in "pop" ? Or the old ponderer of R&B. And while I'm on, what's with Hip Hop being "Urban Soul" ? You'd think "they" were just trying to create demands ......
pancreaspuppet	Date: January 30, 2006 @ 10:08 AM I'm with you - I've often thought the same thing but I thought I might be alone... good to see I'm not the only that wants to vomit at that word. Electronica smells of kitsch, over-cute, popping sounds from Germany which accompany men in skivvies and spectacles dancing like robots. Of unprocessed 808s and synths that sound like lasers playing in mandatorily natural-minor keys. I hate the thought that people might consider that to be my music before they've heard it.
EtherEclectic	Date: February 5, 2006 @ 11:55 PM electronica just sounded more snazzy, and i think grabs the attention of people faster. maybe metallica had something to do with it because of the lica in their name someone thought that tossing ica in electronica might make it sell just like a metallica album "pre-load era of course". we have alot of names like that: metallica electronica elastica "female fronted band" republica "female fronted band that sounded just like elastica, being their main ripoff IMO"
GeneHilbert	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 12:05 AM All views here have merit; I have no opinion on the subject other that the label or word itself "Electronica" just sounds very weak and wimpy to me.
TameasDust	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 1:41 AM are you sayin electronica is white supremacist
trancesepted	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 3:11 AM i dont; http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html is an incredible guide to Electronic music. alot of people have seen it, some havent, its still fun to go back though. only recommended for people who have fast connections. imo electronica is a derogative term... electronic or EDM (electronic dance music) is more correct.
trancesepted	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 3:12 AM electronica: a word coined by US media press to describe the new wave of electronic music in the 90s
Fraser	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 3:16 AM I just say trance, or tech, or psytrance, etc etc
desiderata	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 3:19 AM So I'm not a fan of the term "electronica" either. I think it's used for a simple reason -- it's a noun. You can say "I like jazz" or "I listen to jazz music." And while you can say "I listen to electronic music" saying "I like electronic" sounds kinda dumb. So somebody (an idiot, obviously) made up a noun form, so you can say "I like electronica." Just my
tooles	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 3:27 AM I'm with Mr. pangtera. It's all just techno.
hantu	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 4:09 AM And that "somebody" apparently worked for some magazine... http://www.answers.com/electronica oh and that link trancesepted posted is great, i love that thing
draconigena	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 5:38 AM I do.
trancesepted	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 7:47 AM from the words of ishkur himself lol "Electronica does not exist. Not as a genre or a description. It was coined by the North American music press to refer to the second wave of electronic music's explosion in the late 90s, and exists purely as a marketing buzzword, not any actual quantifiable branch of music (the first wave of electronic music, incidentally, they called 'techno', and, having driven the word into the ground beyond all sense of meaning, they couldn't keep using it if they wished to re-market the music). Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy's 'Fat of the Land', Chemical Brothers and other big-time stars of that period were all called "electronica" at one point or another, but the person who really popularized it in the public consciousness was Madonna and her shallow, William Orbit-produced piss-poor attempt at appropriating trance music as something she invented (Ray of Light). She used that word all the damn time in interviews. God I hate her. So yeah: There is no such thing as electronica. I want each and every one of you to stop calling it that, because it makes you sound like a god damn retard. If you want to talk about the music as a whole, simply call it what it is: "electronic music" (or EDM--Electronic Dance Music--for the club/rave stuff). This is a PSA from the Official Electronic Music Genre Standards and Classifications Consortium."
GeneHilbert	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 10:12 AM "because it makes you sound like a god damn retard". LOL
TameasDust	Date: February 6, 2006 @ 12:12 PM
pmscpc	Date: February 14, 2006 @ 5:45 AM :lol What if my target audience is made up entirely of retards ?
Veracohr	Date: February 15, 2006 @ 1:27 PM Ishkur's guide is so great simply becaus of the guy's outspoken opinions. Like Ether mentioned, the word 'electronica' to me meant artists like Republica: a fusion of rock and electronic. Then years down the line I see it used as a blanket term for all electronic music.
KitRumble	Date: May 19, 2006 @ 11:55 PM Gary Numan is refered to as the Godfather of Electronica from his work from 79 to late 80's...He would cringe to think that anyone would put him in the same box as techno.
Ataxia2	Date: May 20, 2006 @ 2:12 AM If you go into wikipedia and search up electronica, it explains a few things, I think. I just use techno, even though techno is a sub-genre of electronica. Everybody still calls the stuff techno. Electronica is just too long and sounds too... nerdy. You ask people, "You listen to electronica?" And they just stare blankly at you.
jcmclinton	Date: May 21, 2006 @ 8:01 PM " id="222079">i dont think it sounds nerdy at all personally i dont want to call my music techno because mines so different from your average techno i call my own experimental/electronica. i personnaly think im a nerd for making mumsic in the "techno" family cus techno is nerdy lol but so is alot of rock. yea my bands name is "tech burial" you can check it out by clicking the banner! ; )
Fraser	Date: May 22, 2006 @ 3:32 AM ...., use some more punctuation man!
psypig	Date: May 22, 2006 @ 6:33 AM i think we've gotten away lightly. It could've been called 'electro-core' shudder
Fraser	Date: May 22, 2006 @ 1:04 PM Ew.
2step-4eva	Date: May 22, 2006 @ 1:42 PM for some reason "electronic" just sounds so much better than "electronica"... still i prefer it to "techno"... i don't even really know what techno means... i suppose it is something similar to house and trance, but i cant think of any tracks that i'd call techno... they are either house or trance or something in between. i would never use "techno" to mean electronic, for me that just screams ignorance. i think ishkur's guide is brilliant, pretty informative as well as pretty entertaining cos of all his outspoken opinions... i should just point out though that the vast majority of his opinions are WRONG... drum and bass=jungle lite? what? and where does this shit about "stupid house" come from? it is hard house whether u like it or not... also i resent the guy saying 2step garage is "so fucking boring" and speedgarage is "the worst music in the world"... lol...still entertained me though
2step-4eva	Date: May 22, 2006 @ 1:45 PM on further inspection ishkur seems to hate any music that does not originate in the US, especially if it is british...the british make some of the best dance music in the world...of course... yeah actually that is the term i would use: "dance music"... although there is certain electronic music thats not dance, and certain dance thats not electronic... i would say in most situations "dance" is better than electronic/electronica or definately techno
jack	Date: May 22, 2006 @ 3:41 PM I would LOVE to see people dance to some of my stuff..
Veracohr	Date: May 22, 2006 @ 7:47 PM Don't take it so personally 2step, Ishkur's guide is all about his opinions, it's not supposed to be objective. It seems to me he hates anything that isn't DnB, though he does give a respectful nod to goa, which I appreciate, even if he insults hippies while doing so. Of course, now that psypig has coined the term "electro-core", we can expect to see it on Ishkur's guide within 6 months, as a hybrid of electro and hardcore, no doubt.
ChillinBuzz	Date: May 23, 2006 @ 12:11 AM what is mumsic, jcmclinton? i had a joke for that but it escaped through my left ear before i had a chance to catch it i make music under many genres of Electronic... i think i worked out why they added an "a" now... if you say "Electronic" and emphasise the c really hard... as you breathe out it sounds like "caaahhhhh"... Electronic-aaahhhh... try it, you know that's why stupid word.
DeadraveN	Date: May 23, 2006 @ 12:29 AM why does it matter?
ChillinBuzz	Date: May 23, 2006 @ 2:26 AM well, Alternativea, Rocka... HipHopa... all sound gay
KitRumble	Date: May 31, 2006 @ 1:45 AM Thats gaya thank you !!!
shadowself	Date: May 31, 2006 @ 1:47 AM Operaa.

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