Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:03 am Post subject:
what about Subject description: electro ROCK
most of electro music makers are making: house, trance, techno, ambient minimal and so on...
so, I am asking: what do u think about some kind of rock? in fact I like rock but can not play guitar and so on... and making mix of all stiles even rock..
Well, there are many posts here and you should let people discover this topic on their own. _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
i'm signed to a label who liked my mix of rock and electro. i think it's a mix that can work well and so far has seemed to have a good crossover appeal, although i'm playing more to "dance audiences" than i am to "rock audiences"... at least in terms of venues and times.
i was directly inpired by Two Lone Swordsmen's "from the chapel gone double", at least in terms of production. i personally think it's a difficult blend of genres to get right and i think it succeeds if you adopt the best qualities from each genre.
i try to get the swagger of rock'n'roll (try to bottle "it's only rock'n'roll but i like it" by the stones, or marc bolan's camp rocky prance, or Link Wray or Gun Club etc etc) with the more bouncy elements of electro/house/disco production. i've been listening to a lot of Abba recently, who also succeed in the crossover stakes a lot of the time.
i personally think that "the downward spiral" is a brilliant piece of production and a monumental labour of love. probably best summed up by Marilyn Manson in his [of the moment] autobiography...
[paraphrased from poor memory]
Quote:
kurt cobain - you have some beautiful songs here, why'd you have to go and f*ck them up with computers
trent reznor - that's kinda the point
the Canadian electro-industrialists Download (ne Skinny Puppy) quoted Charles Baudelaire on the inlay sleeve "the eyes of Stanley Pain". the quote summed up many aspects of music production i like (Abba included) in the simple phrase, "beauty without distortion lacks sensible appeal." _________________ there's no I in TEAM, so let's all act as individuals instead
In electronics I don't feel restricted by any genre, so I also make things like this : Fear Facts 5
Done with the tracker concept. _________________ 0.618033988
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:23 am Post subject:
BTW I just plunged into the latest albums (okay, not so recent of a small Swedish Pop/Rock group named ABBA. In a way very interested concerning the use of synth sounds...
There's plenty of electro-rock on Numan's first two albums (Tubeway Army & Replicas)
Regurgitator did alot of electro-rock-punk on Unit and Tu Plang
Alot of Rob Zombie's solo stuff is in the same vein, a bit more guitar based, but there's heaps of programming and sequencers as well.
It's definitely a genre I love, when it's done well. _________________ What makes a space ours, is what we put there, and what we do there.
My band is just getting some things together. Our website just went up. I'll post more here, especially once we have the CD's run, and I talk to Howard about selling a few through e-m.com. This first album was really a brain download for us, and every song has it's own thing separate from the other songs, hence the Lifestyles album name. I suppose that it should be considered electro-rock...
I came out of the world of playing in punk bands from '78 to '81. In about '81 I got strongly into the 'Baroque' period of 'Classical' and that opened my mind way up.
Composing wise - most of my influences in writing come from the earlier days of Skinny Puppy; Genesis; Ministry; Saga and the Sex Pistols with very strong hints of Killing Joke thrown in ...... unless I'm in a quieter mood then it's usually earlier Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre influencing. Across all of this as well are minor Baroque influences.
Whilst I'm primarily a keyboardist / sound designer now, if my tunes aren't ambient based, they're highly rhythmically influenced, including composition for multiple drummers often occurring.
Now - that I've been building a modular synth again since July 2005, I'll be applying those past years of experiences and influences in my modular and not much more than string machines; sampled choirs and vocoders outside of the modular itself, which will also be handling all of the percussion sounds.
Almost there. Just have to get a couple more sequencers finished and I'll finally be able to start composing on this beast.
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject:
Dang, Papuna, are you still around? I really like that red planet song. Where can I get more of your music? _________________ "Let's make noise for peace." - Kijjaz
I didn't realise country and western could be blended to form any type of music. _________________ What makes a space ours, is what we put there, and what we do there.
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