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The Indie-ification of Ian Bryce
est:
It is pretty much an imperative for me to suggest Ratatat. I'm no musicologist, mind. I don't really know how to explain them other than saying that it's relaxed & electronic. I just know I like Air and Daft Punk and Benny Benassi and also like Ratatat, so suggesting it seems like the right thing.
E. Spaceman:
More electronic: Röyksopp
valley_parade:
Yay Royksopp!
Kid Modernist:
Man, I am so tired of people calling everything indie. IT IS NOT A GENRE. All it means is that a band is on an independant label.
I'm not saying this to be cool or "Yeah, I'm past careing about indie music." It's just selling yourself short because there is so much music out there that to confine yourself to what is popular (And get over it, "indie" is popular now, not obscure, not elitist, not an in crowd, they sell it at Wal Mart) is so retarded. Don't get into Indie, it is just another word for alternative which is now just another word for people with a lot of money making money of people with not a lot of money by selling them prepackaged SHIT.
It really sucks, because I know how useless this argument is, because 1) I probably am not making much sense. 2) Even if I do make sense, there are a hundred million people that will still talk about "INDIE MUSIC OMG" so I guess I should just relax and go with the flow till it passes like every other fad.
/rant I guess.
Melodic:
Interesting point, Modernist. I think "indie" is used in the same sense as the word "pop" is: they split music down the middle, into bands or musical artists WITH major (or any) labels, and those with NO (or minor) labels.
"Indie" IS a classification of music, but it is NOT a genre. Same can be said for "pop", if in a much tighter sense.
If "indie" or "pop" were genres, they would have defined sounds, possibly defined lyrics, possibly defined images. This is certainly not true, as I've said before, because every major/famous band/artist could be labelled "pop", and every underground/unknown band could be labelled "indie". Even though Fall Out Boy and Nickleback sound completely different, they are both pop. Comprende?
Off the top of my head, the only comparison to the "indie/pop" classing is this one: we have video games, and we have board games. They are both kinds of games, but "video game" is not a genre of game, nor is "board game". "Role-Playing Game" is a genre of game.
Modernist, your rant was well-deserved. Thank you sir.
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