Does anyone hate electronic music like I do?

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Generally, I like it. Some of it is very soothing and lovely. It mostly depends if there's any heart behind it (like all music), otherwise it's just repetitive noise.

I love it, electronic music is my whole life! (and I'm not kidding either)
I understand some people hate it though.

All electronic music?
That covers a pretty broad spectrum.

It's like saying that you hate all music that uses vocals.

So, essentially you only give music made with acoustic instruments a chance.
Or do electric guitars not count?

I can sort of identify.
I don't really like anything that uses a violin.
I pretty much hate all love songs.
Opera makes me want to vomit.
Big Band/Swing music is repulsive to me.
Show tunes also suck.

But electronic, some is great, like industrial.
But I don't care for the more "dancey" kind of electronic.
And I do have to admit that a lot of electronic music can get quite repetitive.
But I don't blame the electronics, I blame the artist for not being creative.
A computer is just another instrument, it can be played poorly like any other instrument.
The skill that produces good electronic music is more like that of a composer than someone who plays a more physical instrument like a guitar or drums.

I don't really like the whole Lady Gaga type of electronic music that populates the charts, but I love synthpop from the 80s. i tend to prefer electronic music that's more minimalistic, like The Knife, or Lights, or The Postal Service, over the ravey, 90s-influenced stuff.

I actually love electronic music. Nowadays most music is electronic or electronicaly enhanced.
Electronic music opens up possibilities that would be impossible in a mere acoustic enviroment, new sounds, programmed rhytms that no drummer would be able to play.

On the other hand, we do see that electronic/digital audioworkstations are being used as a trick, like for instance autotune. Henry rollins has some very outspoken ideas about it and i cant completely disagree with him. Another problem is the so called loudness war. By overusing compression, a track will sound louder and that's what people tune in to but it really destroyes the dynamics of an auduiosignal and the subtleties in music. In the same vein as cgi doesn't make a movie good, (overusing) electronic production tricks don't make the music good.

I think that some people don't like electronic music is becouse the relationship the musician has with his/her gear is substantially different. I think you can hear that. Traditional musicians like pianists and guitar players develop a physical relationship with their instrument, we call that technique. In a band people react to each other and a synergy as a result may occur. A producer can basically do everything by himself from programming, playing arrangeing engeneering and mastering. Therefore he might be a jack of all trades. He may not be able to play a song but he can try endlessly untill it sounds right. His technique is developing a relation with technology, which I think is more indirect than actually playing a guitar. This is no value judgement, I like Jeff Mills, John Gaiser, Autechre (hmm cool name as well as the Smiths or Bach.

In conclusion, I really appreciate the diversity in musical tastes here. I share a love for late nineties techno with an Aspie friend of mine. i once joked to him that it's autistic music for being so monotone and repetitive. I did't know he was an aspie at the time, he thought I read his mind and became uncomfortable. I didn't know I was an autie at the time.

That's an extremely broad brush you're painting with since electronic music is as diverse as music made using physical instruments.

Cat Stevens from 1977, pioneer of electronic music!


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEFYRnQKHdc[/youtube]

I was hooked on electronic music from the moment I first heard "Telstar" by the Tornados (Joe Meek) back in 1962.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE[/youtube]

Raymond Scott, cartoon jazz guy, went electronic in 1959:


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SHJ6CcML80[/youtube]

One of my favorites right now:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd-qCJPVDUw[/youtube]
And another good one by Modulate:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p2GQHbPiSg&feature=related[/youtube]

I don't mind that.

I'm getting into Dutch hardcore lately:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6TSiWLDWo&feature=related[/youtube]

I love electronic music. Probably 60% of the music I listen to is electronic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow18a-CkLN4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FZ1GKaf7_0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZXcn-RgbF4

Yeah, all that stuff

By the way, how on earth do I embed the videos into my reply???

Whoa, I love that Christoph de Babalon one.

I suppose if we're trying to post or come up with things that the OP might find exemption to I may be post something here.

Admittedly on my own tastes I've always liked more dark, dirty, cooked-down electronics that are sort of impossible mock-accoustic type atmospheres. To this day I find a lot of stuff like j-pop, happy hardcore, or clownsteppy dnb like Pendulum et al unlistenable (mainly for the mood as well), some exception in that dubstep or synthpop will occasionally have a synthetic sound but a very innovative/sophistocated use.

As far as a great soft or mellow tune that's electronic but doesn't have bitey-electronic edges:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzOiF9ASyPk[/youtube]

A lot of people rated Kuedo's "Severant" as album of the year.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i59x7D_hpSc&feature=related[/youtube]

To me electronic music sounds like if it was meant to sound annoying. Though the possibilities of today offer ways to also create sounds that don't just sound like ear-cancer.
Generally I at least prefer sinus-wave sounds to square or sawtooth wave sounds since it sounds smoother.
I feel also comfortable with atmospherical sounds created by computers. they are not that bad. So- I would say that I don't detest computer generated sounds, at least not the modern ones of high quality.
There are also some Drumnbass songs I quite enjoy. But techno is just f****d up trash. House and RnB can be at least a little nicer.
Sometimes it's such a pity that somebody uses electronical instruments instead of accoustic or electric ones... for example stevie wonder. he wrote such beautiful songs but then those awful synth backgrounds... yuck!!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwOU3bnuU0k[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVvkjuEAwgU[/youtube]
I just can't listen to such bad quality computer instruments... such a pity, such beautiful songs!

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