This Is Not Electro

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Leader: BeZet
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Created on: 13 Dec 2009
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Electro house, electroclash, breakbeat, nu rave, electrorock, dubstep is NOT electro.

Electro does not mean electronic.

(this group wasn't created to make fun or to criticise anyone's taste or beliefs)
Electro house, electroclash, electropop, breakbeat, nu rave, 8-bit, glitch etc.
is NOT electro.
Electro is a seperate genre. It just happens to share the word 'electro' with other genre names.

E.g. Electropop is not a subgenre of electro, it is not related to electro, it's short for "electronic pop"

Justice is not electro. Nor is Daft Punk. Crystal Castles, Digitalism, Steve Aoki, Uffie? Nope.

It is a common mistake made by a fairly large number of people. You might not even be aware that you're making a mistake.

ELECTRO does not mean ELECTRONIC.
It is not a synonym and it has never been. It may mean electronic when used in conjunction with another word, like electrop - electronic pop.

THIS is electro:
Electro (also called electrofunk) is a music genre born in the 70's which has both hip-hop and electronic influences. Read more or check the Wikipedia article.

Classic electro

Modern electro

Exzakt - End Of The Pain
AUX 88 -

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Connected artists are those that are commonly mistaken as being "electro".

Weekly Top Artists

Overall Unique to this Group

1	Daft Punk	20
2	Radiohead	8
3	Massive Attack	7
4	Crystal Castles	6
5	Joy Division	6
6	Bonobo	6
7	Burial	6
8	Aphex Twin	6
9	Boards of Canada	5
10	Gorillaz	5

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VolvakBalda

Electro, breakbeat, hip-hop are related styles.

17 Dec 2012 Reply
LuisOrv

This group is good, kids these days don't care about the roots anymore... [2] Godspeed BeZet.

23 Dec 2011 Reply
gejm

Depeche Mode listening elitist

26 Jan 2011 Reply
BeZet

alin1, you're wrong. Electropop is short for "electronic pop" and is not a derivative form of the electro genre. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electropop

2 Jan 2011 Reply
-pui

Great electro (etc) radio http://www.globalfunkradio.com/flashcast2.htm

15 Dec 2010 Reply
alin1

@BeZet (leader) said: "Electro house, electroclash, electropop, breakbeat, nu rave, 8-bit, glitch etc.is NOT electro. Electro is a seperate genre". Electro house, electroclash, electropop are derivative forms of electro genre. Nu rave, 8-bit, glitch, breakbeat are not part of electro genre. Unfortunately a lot of people use 'electro' as short for 'electronic'. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_music | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genres

3 Dec 2010 Reply
alin1

Change the group's picture (avatar). The group's name is "This Is Not Electro" and the group's picture is Afrika Bambaataa, electro pioneers. Anyone can understand AB are not electro...

3 Dec 2010 Reply
draqz

lol@charts

30 Nov 2010 Reply
fabiandalesio

Hi there ! I guess you could like this new artist from Barcelona ... http://full-source.com/nosource/netlabel/releases_013.htm Their first EP has just been released via No-Source (US netlabel). Cheers !

5 Sep 2010 Reply
jaTaa

I don't care about the roots

4 Sep 2010 Reply
BeZet

@Sparc: ...so? This group isn't against such music...

5 Aug 2010 Reply
-pui

This group is good, kids these days don't care about the roots anymore...

31 Jul 2010 Reply
Sparc

The top 10 artists of this group are all the ones you mentioned as not electro!

25 Jul 2010 Reply
onmyfeet

what's in a name?

5 Jun 2010 Reply
adidaskiller

GrubenHocker@check your pm

3 Jun 2010 Reply
GrubenHocker

hey guys. ^^ i really have no fuckin clue about this electro/not electro disussion, but i really want to find out somethin about it. first question: (was too lazy to look up the linked artists) are beastie boys 'real' electro? what makes electro real? cuz obviously its not the usage of electronic elements. and also its not about the rhythm, i guess. so whats the thing that makes electro become electro? i know that there cant be exact definition, im used that from rock muic, espacially hardcore.... hardcore lovers are massively trolling of fake hardcore and things. -.-

31 May 2010 Reply
Adyry

Well, nowadays everybody mean "electro house" by sayin "electro". Damn, same with techno.

25 May 2010 Reply
BeZet

Kraftwerk is mainly krautrock, but their more recent albums are electro.

23 May 2010 Reply
Zeldadaft96

@benharris because I'm tired of saying I like Daft Punk and people responding '.....so you like electro [or techno] right?' It's annoying as hell when trying to talk to people, or organizing music. I have 10 genre tags in iTunes for the same damn artist.

22 May 2010 Reply
BeZet

@benharris16: I understand that's a rhetorical question, as you've posted it on a wall of a group devoted to the subject. Anyway, you can ask any electro (I mean real electro) artist, they complain about it a lot.

5 May 2010 Reply