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Electronic Music 101?

Posted by Cliff on from the techno-house-and-drum-n-bass-baby! dept.

Otter asks: "iTunes comes with a sampler of MP3s selected to appeal to the Apple demographic. The one that really caught my attention was a track by Sasha and John Digweed, which has inspired me to learn a bit about electronic music. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who likes that stuff and my local Tower Records only has Moby (didn't like it),Paul Oakenfold (not bad) and 11,000 'Best of Ibiza' sets. What are the must-haves I should start with? What are the best online communities and places to learn about new artists? Feel free to define 'electronic' as broadly as seems appropriate." I used to shop at Homebass, but they just went out of business, which is sad, as they had one of the most comprehensive selection of electronica that I have ever seen, and most of their tracks had MP3 previews. If you were going to try and turn a friend on to Electronica, what artists, songs, or even specific mixed sets would you suggest? What online sources of electronica are still around.

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  1. What music isn't electronic? by Animats · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Most popular music has a keyboard part that was generated on some kind of device with a CPU inside. And then there's all the post-processing. Really, electronic music is music. Once in a while you find an "unplugged" album, but it's probably been postprocessed through a digital mixing console.

  2. Re:Goatsemon by LinuxCumShot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, please mod him up... while the song goatse may be terrible, dance of the sugar plum goatse is pure genius.

    but who listens to me, my name is LinuxCumShot

    PS: this is the best ask slashdot ever

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  3. Re:AudioGalaxy and SoulSeek by Buck2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you fucking serious?

    I have assloads of "electronica" that I would never-in-a-fucking-million-years trade to you because you're talking about "a good replacement hasn't really been decided on".

    The MUSIC is in the FUCKING DANCE! It's not the distribution you FUCK!!!!

    C'Mon! You're SO CLOSE!

    *sigh* All, I'm trying to say ... to the "general /. public" is, search, search, and search ... move to the US. Go to a party in the desert. The new shit is happening RIGHT FUCKING NOW. If you want to do IT, then do it. Otherwise, just chill, listen, and peace.

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  4. Sasha and John Digweed by flacco · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    The one that really caught my attention was a track by Sasha and John Digweed,

    Another couple of fuck-wads who apparently can't write a web page without using Flash.

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