Re:The Battle over Techno’s Origins
by strohwueste on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:20AM
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I totally agree with you, but would also add that electro and techno kind of have the same meaning to me now. If someone ask about it I would reply back what their favourite guitar music is, because it's not a genre anymore but style how to make music. Namely electronic or technology focused
There was also an Electro revival in the 2000s that sounds nothing like the original, people called it electroclash but now I see a lot of people calling it just electro.
In the end, the differences are minimal, and the more trivial they are, the more people squabble about it. Add or remove a keyboard pad and you have a new genre which people will hate.
This has been my core insight, any one person you are talking to may well be correct given their location and time that they learned about these things.
To 2023 me, "Electro" doesn't have enough information to know for sure what music you mean, but in early 2000's in the Australian club scene, Electro was a specific sub-genere of modern club house. We would probably call it electro-house now that it's not the current zeitgeist.
The fact that I know for sure people will disagree with that is how I know the former insight is right, it's very dependent on time and place, and there is no authority.