Who are the most successful electronic musicians out there?

Nokatus · Post by **Nokatus** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:35 pm

This far in the thread and still no mention of Vangelis? Jarre? Eno? Tangerine Dream? Depeche Mode?

Haha, just noticed Angstrom got ahead of me and said Jarre + Depeche Mode

djsentinel · Post by **djsentinel** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:36 pm

SubFunk wrote: i mean 12 to 16year old teenager where there. i am not surprised considering the music he plays and produces.

1. Why the hell would you go to a tiesto event if you are not hardcore into trance/house/dance music? I don't go to KISS concerts and for good reason.

2. I'm glad that there are young people there, its nice to see young people get into dance music because traditionally young people, atleast in the US, have generalized it all the be techno and just discount it as art, and It's alot better than them going to a death metal concert and getting smashed in a mosh pit, asuming that people at the dance event steer away from the stigma drugs. Yes I am stereotyping punk/metal concerts, but I had a friend that got his leg and a part of his pelvic bone broken in one.

3. The music he plays and produces may not be your cup of tea, but that does not mean it's made for people under 18. My dad sure hates dance music because of the repeditive nature but I mailed him ASOT 2006 w/ Armin van Buuren, and he enjoyed it very much. To each his own I say. I don't like country but do I say its only for rednecks?

4. Tiesto is not very good by my standards. He has about maybe 3 tracks I really like. I tend to like Armin van Buuren "I mean the productions he does, he is a great DJ but I usually only pay attention to the production one does, because anyone can DJ. It takes skill to make your own tracks and fit them seemlessly into a mix.

BTW I am not just big into trance music, but I have this deep fasination with Squarepusher and Aphex Twin. They don't do traditional music and they do it very well. If I was not doing trance/prog music, I would be doing that music. Breakcore all the way.

My 4c :-/

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:50 pm

djsentel asked:

1. Why the hell would you go to a tiesto event if you are not hardcore into trance/house/dance music? I don't go to KISS concerts and for good reason.

because:

subfunk wrote:

those figures are true, as i am involved in / or know of (from first hand) pretty much everything which is going on in this country regarding electronic music.

i get always tickets / guestlist for such events, so i check things out to know what in am talking about! even if it is not my cup of tea, but it's often business for me.

djsentel wrote:

3. The music he plays and produces may not be your cup of tea,

i give my opinion, because i do have an opinion!

djsentinel · Post by **djsentinel** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:14 pm

And I do appreciate your opinion. This IS a forum, isn't that what everything is about?

Lets argue about rap music shall we?

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:17 pm

oi, that sounds like fun! let's go...

i don't like rap, cause there is to much gold involved.

[Galo] · Post by **[Galo]** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:19 pm

Hans zimmer

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:27 pm

ah yeah the actual thread. i drifted away there.

many of the already mentioned:

it's hard to say, very succsessful over the years and / or influential have been definetely depeche mode, kraftwerk, J.M. jarre, chemicals, underworld, bjoerk, moby, aphex twin, coldcut, squerepusher, hawtin, jeff mills, etc, etc. the list could be long. not that i like all of them, but they do have their place in the world of electronic music.

and actually one that caught my attention lately the most and has incredible fresh non recipe a or b formular structures / arrangements, is a yet rather unknown artist.

our very own YILA!

Spikee · Post by **Spikee** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:30 pm

cc wrote:Yea stinky,

That sounds about like it...I'm going to check some of them out now...

Rock On,
c

Although I'd say Underworld is good, Tiesto, Oakenfold, BT (for the most part, some tracks off of ESCM and IMA were brilliant) is IMHO utter shite.

I'd really recommend downloading a program like Rhapsody, it's $10 or so a month but when you find something you like, it recommends 5-10 artists for you to check out and stuff like that. It's a great way to quickly and conveniently expose yourself to new tunes.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:34 pm

Angstrom wrote:Perhaps Timbaland - he has to be worth a few greenbacks eh?

yup. Someone mentioned Richie Hawtin asked 20.000 to play a gig... well I don't think people like Dr.Dre would get out of bed for that kind of money....

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:36 pm

do i missunderstand you, or do you compare hawtin with Dr. Dre?

LJ Martin · Post by **LJ Martin** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:40 pm

Thievery Corporation
The Streets
Crystal Method

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:42 pm

Yes. I am actually comparing the two.

The main jumping point is that since there's been no further definition of "electronic music" other than "not singer/songwriter", then anything goes.

...And since they both produce electronic music - Hawtin in the minimal techno subgenre, Dre in the hip-hop subgenre - then I would go with Dre.

Now, if anyone wants to start a discussion within a field with some better definition I'm all for it as well.

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:46 pm

just wondering, cause i personally think that Dr. Dre is more worth his money, cause he entertains, hawtin doesn't. playing with a filter all night long and charging 20.000 euros compared to the entertaining value of Dr. Dre and the all over stuff / many artists he produced.

plus adonis argument, which is true, that it is about the drawing at the door:

hardly anyone outside the elctronic scene knows hawtin, of cause we do, but we are into electronica. Dr. Dre do know people even if they do not listen to any electronica nor Rap / hip hop. he is by far more global. and therefore is able to accsess more people. just an example, this is a very small country i am living in right now, if you put up posters saying Dr. Dre is in town, everyone would talk about him, cause they do know / have heard his name, if you say hawtin is in town, about 5000 to maybee 15.000 people would talk about him. and i think that ist is pretty much everywhere like that. (in percentage)

but that is shurely just my humble opinion.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:17 pm

Doctor Dre is a way more massive draw than any electronic act - easy

and to be honest I'd go see Dr. Dre and Snoop before I went to any of the above

but Dre may never have to perform ever again in his life because his albums and production sell millions as opposed to Hawtin who I highly doubt has ever sold over 50K plus albums and most likely depends on his high profile touring schedule to exist

and I bet Dre's show would kill Hawtin's show deck, efx and 909 - please Dre. would bring the whole goddamn stadium sound system, some surprise acts and hella probably one hell of a good time

those 2 - apples and oranges as they say round these parts

Dre might be mainstream - but he was one of the founding fathers of West Coast rap - my dad took me to see NWA at the Paramount when I was 12 - however I'm not going ot reutrn the favor and take him tosee hawtin (laughs kinda at the thought)

and yes, they both use electronic instruments, MPC's and samplers to make music but Dre I bet more than Hawtin incorporates real live instrumentation - like real guitar, bass, singers and the whole lot

where's Richie hawtin just kicks a can down the street and hits record - puts it on a album and the uber 80's minimal crowd calls him a genius <--- ok that's mean but it's kind a true

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:23 pm

i am totally with you on this one adonis.