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20 unusual facts about electronic music


Ace Combat

Ace Combat 3 uses an electronic soundtrack similar to that of Namco's Ridge Racer series, but with more focus on atmosphere and dissonant synth instruments than electronic beats.

Acoustic music

Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means.

Bent Lorentzen

In the 1960s Electronic music inspired his creativity to take new paths, and since then innumerable other composition techniques have exerted an influence.

Brian Landrus

The quartet focuses on traditional jazz and the Kaleidoscope incorporates jazz with elements of R & B, Reggae, Soul, & Electronic music while still having emphasis on Improvisation.

Chrisma

Krisma, an Italian electronic duo mostly active in the 1970s - 1980s, formed by Christina and Maurizio Arcieri

Down with the Scene

Down With the Scene is the second album by the Electronic music artist Kid 606 and the first full-length album for Ipecac Recordings.

Festivals in Atlanta

Corndogorama is a yearly music festival, founded in 1996 by Dave Railey, which features performances from local bands including Indie rock, Hip hop, Metal, and Electronic groups.

Lucien Goethals

He later studied orchestration with Norbert Rosseau, and serial technique and electronic composition with Gottfried Michael Koenig and De Meester.

Map of What Is Effortless

Map of What is Effortless is the second full-length album by American electronic group Telefon Tel Aviv, released on Hefty! Records.

Math the Band

Math the Band is an American electronic band formed in 2001 in Westford, Massachusetts by Kevin Steinhauser, with Justine Mainville joining in 2007.

Paul Lansky

Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day.

Peter Reveen

Samples from his self-hypnosis LPs, including Relax with Reveen, Study and Concentrate with Reveen, and Stop Smoking...Stop Overeating with Reveen, feature on some modern Electronic music, such as the Lemon Jelly track Nervous Tension, and Bonobo track Shadowtricks.

Rio en Medio

Working independently and in secret, she first created "The Bride of Dynamite", a collection of collage-like songs incorporating found sounds and electronic programming, lifting texts from disparate sources, and evoking traditional/folk song structure, themes and melodies.

Selfmindead

In 2003, Ilkka and Marco formed a new band in Norway known as Benea Reach and Timo started an Electronic project known as Tiikeri.

Shoplifting 4 Jesus

The band embarked on a slightly different course while recording: the majority of the songs featured on the album have a more electronic sound, as well as more hip-hop and reggae influences.

Songs About Fucking Steve Albini

Songs About Fucking Steve Albini is an album by Electronic music artist Kid606.

Soule Hall

Techno, House and Electronic music are constantly being blasted on speakers throughout the dormitory.

The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams

The Action Packed Mentallist Brings You the Fucking Jams is an album of songs by Electronic music artist Kid 606.

We Voyagers

The band experimented with many different sounds with a mixture of folk and electronic sounds using many instruments which included synth, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, glockenspiel, accordion, giving them the unique “We Voyagers” sound.

WIDR

The library comprises mainly CDs from a number of non-mainstream or alternative record labels and represents styles ranging from alternative, jazz and hip-hop to electronic, world and experimental music.


Al Gromer Khan

Concurrently, Khan engaged in a number of experimental projects, pioneering the proto-electronic music genre called Space music, together with Popol Vuh, Deuter and Amon Düül.

Al-P

Alex Puodziukas known by his stage name Al-P, is a Canadian musician, record producer and recording engineer, best known for being part of the electronic music duo MSTRKRFT along with Jesse F. Keeler.

Ayo Technology

Because of this, it is remarkably similar-sounding to the electronic music duo Crystal Castles' "Courtship Dating" from their self-titled album, released the following year although performed live since December 2006.

Bad Vilbel

English electronic music duo Autechre released a song entitled Second Bad Vilbel on their EP Anvil Vapre.

Bit-Phalanx

Bit-Phalanx is a Netlabel based in London, which started as an artists and events management for unsigned performing and recording artists within the Electronic music genre in 2006.

Black Necrotic Obfuscation

Black Necrotic Obfuscation is the debut EP by the Norwegian electronic/noise/avant-garde metal artist Zweizz.

Curves Music

The distributor focusses on a mixture of (Dutch) hip hop, electronic and dance artists, but also draws artists associating closely with folk and experimental music.

Dat'r

Dat'r is an Electronic music band consisting of Matt Dabrowiak and Paul Alcott, from Portland, Oregon.

Emileigh Rohn

Emileigh Rohn is a solo artist who produces the electronic music project Chiasm sold by COP International records.

Enjoi

The video was directed and edited by Enjoi's long-time brand manager, Matt Eversole, and features music from professional skateboarder, Tony Manfre, and American electronic music duo, Glass Candy.

Flow My Tears

In 2006, the British electronic music group Banco de Gaia produced a vocoded version called "Flow my Dreams, the Android Wept".

Grand Popo Football Club

Grand Popo Football Club are a French electronic music group of a DJ/book-loving television presenter/chat show host and producer/classically-trained pianist who studied at the National Conservatory in Paris, respectively.

James Fei

James Cheng Ting Fei (Chinese name: ; pinyin: Fèi Zhèngtíng; b. Taipei, Taiwan, 1974) is a composer and performer working in the fields of contemporary classical music and electronic music.

Luke Abbott

Luke Abbott is an English electronic music producer from Norwich, Norfolk, with releases on Output Recordings, Trash Aesthetics and James Holden's Border Community label.

M. A. Numminen

Additionally, M.A. Numminen has been one of the unsung pioneers of Finnish electronic music, known for his collaborations with the composer and inventor Erkki Kurenniemi who built for Numminen a "singing machine" with which Numminen participated in a singing contest in 1964, and in the late 1960s the electronic instrument Sähkökvartetti ("Electric Quartet"), the performance of which wreaked havoc in a youth festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Mad Rad

Mad Rad is a Seattle-based hip hop/electronic music group that consists of five members; three vocalists, a DJ, and a drummer.

Madd Circus

Madd Circus is the fifth studio album by American electronic band Detroit Grand Pubahs.

Massaccesi

He is a multimedia artist, utilizing performance, installation, physical art pieces, experimental sound compositions electronic music, video & more, generally using the themes of recycling/re-usage and unique concepts (the sound of trash in refugee camps, building a city out of a city's recycling, performances based on the southern Asian sport of Buzkashi, sleeping, worshiping trash).

Midi:Nette

Since then, Midi:Nette has released the records of Mana's follow-up project Moi dix Mois, and in 2002, Mana signed on the electronic duo Schwarz Stein, which disbanded in 2004, due to creative differences.

New York / N.Y.

Canadian electronic musician and performance artist Peaches references and sings a snippet of the song in the music video for her song "Show Stopper", which features Danish film actress Charlotte Munck.

Patrice Warrener

Trained as a printer, Patrice made his mark in the world of light shows: first, with the French co-operative Open Light, and then with his collaboration with the English musician, and electronic music pioneer, Tim Blake, with whom he introduced Laser Lighting effects in their Crystal Machine shows in the early 1970s.

Pop the Glock/Ready to Uff

Uffie recorded "Pop the Glock" in 2005 when she was only 17 years old and after showing it to Busy P, owner of French electronic label Ed Banger Records she was offered a record deal.

Romborama

Romborama is the title of the debut studio album by Italian electronic duo The Bloody Beetroots.

Shaa'ir and Func

Shaa'ir and Func (sometimes stylised as "S+F") are an alternative, electronic music duo from Mumbai, composed of Monica Dogra and Randolph Correia, formed in 2007.

Spirit Zone Records

Spirit Zone Recordings was an electronic music record label from Germany which started in 1994.

Sun Electric

Sun Electric is the name of an electronic music group from Berlin.

The Buck Shot Show

Theme music for the series was "The Elephant Never Forgets", a playful version of Beethoven's "Turkish March" in 1967 by electronic music pioneers Perrey and Kingsley.

The Music of the Primes

Music of the Primes is also the title of a 2006 electronic music track by Cube::Hard.

Titán

Titán is a Mexican electronic band formed in 1992 from the industrial band Melamina Ponderosa, where Emilio Acevedo and Julián Lede first met each other, later Jay de la Cueva (Microchips, Fobia, Moderatto) joined the band.

Tom Ellard

Thomas (Tom) Ellard (born 1962), is an Australian electronic musician best known as the founding member of the electronic and industrial music group Severed Heads.

Tom Frederikse

Tom Frederikse is an electronic music producer who has performed remix work for Sasha in the early-1990s on Sasha's single "Appolonia" as well as working with him as "QAT" on records including The Qat Collection.

TV Shit

The album cover's spine and back cover (with the exception of the photo) is from the Karlheinz Stockhausen album Gesang der Jünglinge, which is often credited as being the first electronic album.

Twacky Cats

Twacky Cats, released by Comfort Stand Records in 2004, is an EP by American electronic musician Dan Deacon.

Volksempfänger

The album Radio-Activity, released in 1975, by German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk prominently features a Volksempfänger, of the DKE brand (model 38), on its cover.

Wagram Music

It has a catalog in various music genres such as French Pop, Rock and Hard rock, Pop, World, electronic music, Reggae, Soul, Jazz and Blues.

Waiting for a Star to Fall

The track "In My Arms" sampled the song and was featured on the album Destroy Rock & Roll, by electronic musician Mylo.

Waveshaper

In electronic music waveshaping is a type of distortion synthesis in which complex spectra are produced from simple tones by altering the shape of the waveforms.

Werner Meyer-Eppler

In 1949, Meyer-Eppler published a book promoting the idea of producing music by purely electronic means (Meyer-Eppler 1949), and in 1951 joined the sound engineer/composer Robert Beyer and the composer/musicologist/journalist Herbert Eimert in a successful proposal to the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) for the establishment of an electronic-music studio in Cologne.

WOBC-FM

WOBC airs an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming including new and old pop music, punk, folk, classical, blues, R&B, metal, hip-hop, jazz, electronic, radio dramas, talk shows, and news including the independently syndicated news program Democracy Now!.