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Electronica Anyone?
amok:
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Fuck YES
*Listens to 'Bomb'*
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Are they nam,ed after that poem by that guy? it's a great poiem
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1. Bomb is one of the greatest EBM anthems ever :)
2. I'm not sure really, they're an awesome band though. Download "The Story Of Our Lives", it's their biggest song (The "Epic Mix" if you can get it, but any version kicks ass)
salada:
maybe i'm wrong here (and maybe i'm a little drunk), but everything anyone's ever called EBM comes off as some really, really weak, depressing, boring 4/4 trance with someone monotonously droning over the top of it about how shite their life is and how black their soul is.
...so someone tell me that EBM and i got off on the wrong foot, and give me a solid recommendation.
please?
KharBevNor:
Well, I'm not primarily an electronic music fan, and as such I can't really be expected to have much in the way of taste. Hell, I'm not even sure of the precise definition of ebm*. I probably have a far too wide definition of it. All I know, from my philistine, uneducated, heathen position, is that it rocks the cock off Aphex Twin. If you really want something 'innovative' or whatnot that I've always considered EBM, try :wumpscut:, specifically the tracks 'Funeral Diner', 'Black Death [French Concept]', 'Default' and 'Fear in Motion'. I think those deviate somewhat from your description anyway.
*Given that I technically make EBM music**, this is a pretty sorry state of affairs.
**or at least I think I do...
amok:
Please note that as I mentioned above, my definitions suck cock. For a more solid definition of EBM and other genres, look up www.allmusic.com, I've been told their genres are pretty much spot on.
However, it tends to be used to describe the "heavier" and usually somewhat older stuff (there's a common notion going around at the moment that EBM is "dead", and indeed that's the URL for Neuroticfish's website so whether they make the stuff or not is debatable)
Anyway, recommendations for stuff which I feel fairly safe in describing as EBM:
Frontline Assembly - Anything from "Civilisation", esp. Maniacal and Psychosomatic
Front 242 - Headhunter v3.0
Advance and Follow/PTF-era VNV Nation - Cold and Joy are good songs to start with
KBN's recommended :Wumpscut: tracks, as well as Capital Punishment
Early Funker Vogt counts too, I think.
The more techno/trancy stuff tends to be called Futurepop (coined by one of the guys in VNV, I believe) or just dark synthpop. To be honest though, to me it's all the same kind of stuff. I never bothered much with genres. Heavy guitar music is "metal", medium is "rock" and light is "indie". Stuff that goes "beep" is "synthpop" and stuff that goes "beep thudda thudda bang" while some angry German guy shouts at me is "industrial". ;)
KharBevNor:
EBM is just down somewhere in my mind as 'industrial wot is dancey'.
I generally just loathe the idea of listening to anything whose genre has the word pop in it, though I know I do. In my mind, 'pop' is anathemic to the whole goth/gothic/cyber/darkwave aesthetic. I don't even care if it's supposed to be ironic or something. I liken calling a song 'poppy' or saying a band has 'pop sensibilities' to calling a painting 'nice' or 'pretty', ie utterly damning criticism.
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