Anyone here into electronica?

[k_buddy762]

I have been sequencing with samplers and synths since the early 1990s. I have created electronica tracks but I'm afraid the folks in the other music forum will dub them "AI generated." I have been into all types of electronic music since the late 70s.

[bullimiami]

1. I love Tomita Kraftwerk and Carlos. Old days before MIDI.

It’s electronic maybe not so much electronica.

[IbogaProject]

2. Yes

Graduated High School in the mid 1980s. I saw Kraftwerk in 1998 and got into electronic music in the 90s. Got into Caribou in the naughts and saw his group in 2007, he has a electronic DJ alterego, Daphine or something, his name is Dan Snaith. Still follow it some but mostly artists I found back then. Watched a lot of DJ sets during the pandemic. Mixcloud is good for mixtapes, and soundcloud is ok but private equity owned now. Band Camp is another way to release stuff of your own and there is a service that handles putting your stuff on the streaming platforms, but I don't know the name. I follow the Dub Pistols, Coldcut, Jinx In Dub, Stereo MCs, Third Bass just reunited. I loved those few electronic things Neil Young did, Trans, Reactor, Landing on Water. A current favorite is Lentourloop (I suspect they are Daft Punk in costume), they fake being nearly elderly and their skills and stage style match Daft Punk.

[highplainsdem]

3. You'll find electronica/electronic/techno/EDM music in that other forum, Music Appreciation,

which I host.

The AI-generated music I ask people not to post there is that created by generative AI, which is trained on stolen intellectual property - all the copyrighted music the AI companies (Suno, Udio etc.) could grab. Quite different from the electronic music created starting decades ago. I know people who've happily used the best tech they could find over the years to make music and produce records, but not generative AI.

I'll admit I prefer drums to drum machines, blues rock to any other genre, and I hate AutoTune and pitch correction. But I thought Tangerine Dream was amazing...though not as amazing as the musicians I'd hear at my favorite blues club, and the older blues artists they'd recommend.

If you donate any amount to DU, you'll have a Star membership that will let you use Advanced Search, so you could search Music Appreciation back through 2011 for techno, EDM, etc. in thread titles or OPs. You'll see a lot more thread titles with those words in Music Appreciation than in Musicians, but this forum sees more music created by the DUer posting it.

And you can cross-post, of course.

Hope this helps...