Favourite Electronic Style?

It's all about the drum and bass.

 

None of the above. This is the subforurm for experimental music.

 

Electronic AND Experimental? No?

 

Experimental music is strongly associated with electronic because it is with electronic devices that musicians use to experiment with.
I think you will get more responses in the Ambient and Trance, or the House and Dance subforums.
If I had to choose, I guess id choose ambient.

 

speedcore, breakcore, gabber

 

i'm not sure what defines house, but too much other then ambient either has too heavy of a drum track with mundane snares, or sounds like "look ma' i can play a sequencer".

i like INTERESTING sequences of sound. rythem CAN be an asset, if odd enough and created with UNUSUAL sounds, but it isn't a defining essential, or even essential at all!

'it' is NOT about drumb and base! i've seen/heard tangarene dream and klaus shultze, et al, refered to as 'the berlin school', so that's one big part of defining what i'm into. and outfits like numina and rogue element still squezing good new stuff out of vintage analog synths.

(drumb and base still = "look ma', i can play a sequencer", and snares are still an annoyingly conventional sound)

so if "berlin school" were one of the options in the poll that's the one i would have picked. or if it were multiple options instead of just one, i'd have picked ambient AND berlin school

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Silly question. All those genres you listed... it's all techno at the end of the day...

It's such a broad and encompassing term that having to choose one over the others is silly. I'm not crazy mad about any of those in particular but take elements from each, fuse it together to make something unique and not so generic and you've got me interested... By people being all 'Oh, I like X but I don't like Y' and putting things in neatly labelled boxes you're limiting your horizons. Pretty much every genre of music has it's high and low points, when there's a certain forumlaic blueprint sound that people are trying to acheive things become stale and boring

I didn't vote but if I did I'd say psytrance, not because I think it's any better than other genres but many of my friends are involved in producing, DJing and promoting the shtuff. If I'm going out then the crowds at psytrance parties are usually the least judgemental and usually have the best drugs

And to the guy who said 'this is the subforurm for experimental music' - you're showing your ignorance if you think techno can't be experimental... It can be very much so. Arguably, in the last 15-20 years the majority of experimental music has come from techno producers

 

then why is there a seperate subforum ambient and a separate subforum electronica? how are you defining the difference there?

i mean you could say at the end of the day its all music too, but that doesn't mean the same people would prefer to listen to or create all of it.

seems like both are being used for what sounds to me like, as i said, "look ma', i can play a sequencer" and almost no mention in either of what i DO like to listen to. musically interesting creative sculpting of sound.

the distinction i'm trying to get at, is between party and dance, which is ok in their place, and something either interesting to listen to, or won't interfere with your own creativity, rob you of thinking your own thoughts, to have going on in the background.

and that it's the latter rather then the (appearantly much more popular, at least more mundanely popular) former, that i VERY strongly prefer. (which appearently makes me the opposite of a lot of people)

i'm certainly NOT saying ANYthing "can't be" anything. the my only point being that some things are a hell of a lot more interesting to me then others.

(and mind numbingly uncreative uberconventional drumb tracks just don't cut it. not at home when i'm wanting to be doing anything.

on the dance floor or in the boozorium, that's someone else's trip as ever they see fit. i just don't see that as a reason it should have to be forced onto mine, or anyone else of similar tastes to mine)

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I like something that just a nice relaxing tune with a good beat you can nod your head too.......Something thats good to get stoned too.

I also like Drum N Base and Break Beats

 

although most of bands who made this kind of music hated the lable of their sound id have to with the eperimental german electronic groups of the 70's also known as krautrock. like the above poster said the berling schoo type of deal the tangerine dreams,ash ra temple,etc

 

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from the available choices I'd have to say my favorites are, in order; Downtempo/IDM, Ambient/Dark Ambient, Industrial then Breakbeat/Breaks