Electronic music: Difference between revisions

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In jazz, amplified [[acoustic instrument]]s and synthesizers were mixed in a series of influential recordings by [[Weather Report]]. [[Joe Zawinul]], the synthesizer player in that group, has continued to field ensembles of the same kind.

Musicians such as [[Brian Eno]], [[Vangelis]], [[Jean Michel Jarre]] and [[Tangerine Dream]] also popularised the sound of electronic music. The film industry also began to make extensive use of electronic music in [[soundtrack]]s; an example of a film whose soundtrack is heavily dependent upon this is [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s film of [[Anthony Burgess]]'s novel ''[[A Clockwork Orange]]''. ''Forbidden Planet'' had used an electronic score in 1956 and, once electronic sounds became a more common part of popular recordings, other [[science fiction]] films such as ''[[Blade Runner]]'' and the [[Alien]] series of movies began to depend heavily for [[mood]] and [[ambience]] upon the use of electronic music and electronically derived effects. Electronic groups were also hired to produce entire soundtracks, in the same way as other popular music stars.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a great deal of innovation around the development of electronic music instruments. Analogue synthesisers largely gave way to digital synthesisers and samplers. Early samplers, like early synthesisers, were large and expensive pieces of gear-- companies like [[Fairlight]] and [[New England Digital]] sold instruments that cost upwards of $100,000. In the mid 1980s, this changed with the development of low cost samplers. From the late 1970s onward, much popular music was developed on these machines. Groups like [[Heaven 17]], [[Severed Heads]], [[The Human League]], [[Yaz]], [[The Art of Noise]], [[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]], and [[New Order]] developed entirely new ways of making popular music by electronic means.

The natural ability for music machines to make stochastic, non-harmonic, staticky noises leadled to a genre of music known as [[industrial music]]. Some artists, like [[Nine Inch Nails]], KMFDM, and Severed Heads, took some of the adventurous innovations of [[Musique Concrete]] and applied them to mechanical dance beats. Others, such as Test Department, [[Einstürzende Neubauten]], took this new sound at face value and created hellish electronic compositions. Meanwhile, anotherother groupgroups (Robert Rich, :zoviet*france:, rapoon) took these harsh sounds and melded them into evocative soundscapes.

The [[Acid House]] movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s went on to further promote the development and acceptance of electronic music into the [[mainstream]]. More recently, electronic instruments have been used to create [[dance music]] with rhythms faster and more precise than previously possible with ordinary [[percussion]], and the sound of this music has often featured electronically altered sounds and samples of traditional instruments. The falling price of suitable equipment has meant that [[popular music]] has increasingly been made electronically. Artists such as [[Bjork]] and [[Moby]] have further popularized variants of this form of music within the mainstream. In the 1990s a Turkish electronic musician [[Murat Ses]] published his electronic works which incorporated original [[Levantine]], Central Asian, [[Anatolian]] musics in a so-called trilogy with the concept: "The Timeless and Boundariless Context of Culture and Civilization".

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:[[Trip hop]] aka [[Bristol Sound]]

Notable artists in some genregenres of electronic music:

:[[Aphex Twin]] (Early ambient, electronica)

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:[[Fatboy Slim]] aka [[Norman Cook]] (Breaks, big beat, Happy Hardcore)

:[[Frankie Bones]] (Happy Hardcore, Funky breaks, Goa. Responsible for essentially starting the rave scene in North America. Came up with the word "[[Rave]]". Came up with [[PLUR]].)

:[[Frankie Knuckles]] (InventedPioneered [[house music]]. Spun at a club called "The Warehouse", for which the genre was named.)

:[[Funk Function]]

:[[Hardfloor]]