Euroclash, Electrotrash
Electroclash (and related derivatives) should be heard at clubs sometimes but not featured too extensively in a collection. A track here, a track there, maybe the odd CD, but really, Ladytron gets tiresome after a few listens and Chicks on Speed can only be enjoyed live, and even then only in a muted way.
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What irks me the most is the belief that an electroclash reworking can make the lamest music somehow OK. Oooh, Destiny's Child? Let's remix it; that will be so ironic. Like, yaah, totally. Wear the t-shirt too why don't you, but I'm not allowed to talk about that. Shit music is not made cool through irony. It is still shit. 100%. Forever.
Actually I don't especially hate Destiny's Child and might forgive a CD if the person made up for it in other ways, but I can't think of a better example right now.
I really REALLY want to comment on fashion here, but will respect the ban Marc has imposed.
What irks me the most is the belief that an electroclash reworking can make the lamest music somehow OK. Oooh, Destiny's Child? Let's remix it; that will be so ironic. Like, yaah, totally. Wear the t-shirt too why don't you, but I'm not allowed to talk about that. Shit music is not made cool through irony. It is still shit. 100%. Forever.
Actually I don't especially hate Destiny's Child and might forgive a CD if the person made up for it in other ways, but I can't think of a better example right now.
posted by peter at
6:35 PM
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Tis sadly true, and we have talked at length about this. I believe that electroclash is the work of the devil with the exception of Felix Da Housecat (who I must admit I was going to just flat-out ignore till Sachiko turned me on to him), and DJ Hell.
Fischerspooner are fucking tiresome pains in the arses; Chicks On Speed are patchy; Ladytron simply very dull with the exception of "Playgirl" and "Commodore Love". Basically, half the bands covered by Dazed & Confused are shite. Do yourselves a favour: go to the roots of these horrendous bastards and find good stuff in: Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Front 242, Einstürzende Neubaten, Neu, Yellow Magic Orchestra, The Human League, PiL, and Nitzer Ebb.
Sorry about being preachy, you just hit a nerve.
kibo! somebody called my name so here i am!
i make a huge distinction between euroclash and "electroclash" which has assumed a clichee meaning. it was fun in 1997 and 2001, but now it has to move on. hell or tiga are the kind of people who keep on going without giving it names. electronic rock maybe.
when i came up with "euroclash" i intended pretty much everything which sounded fresh and didn't look back
into the 90s. that's why hip hop is clearly not part of it. i'd rather see t.raumschmiere in the picture.
remixing current mainstream r'n'b productions is not electroclash, it's bastard pop (or missy or whatever other names they have for it). sometimes it's good, sometimes it still smells like the awful mainstream music you don't wanna hear.
have a listen into
http://this.is.radio.euroclash.com/
how a euroclash compilation would be a pretty good idea indeed and i'm working on it! ;)
and being a child of the 80s
i obviously like to put statements of the past right there in the middle.
oh by the way, the new fischerspooner album rocks.. literally. it's not their fault if "emerge" is the only song most people ever heard..
Actually lynX, Sachiko was listening to the new Fischerspooner CD in Virgin Megastore. The one track I heard was OK. But I am quite a one for the maxim of "the crimes of the past cannot be atoned for". Even if Terence Trent D'Arby went Belgian techno he'd still be, on aggregate, shite.
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