#ELECTRONICA ARTISTS SOFTWARE#

#ELECTRONICA ARTISTS SOFTWARE#

With the advent of computer sequencers, relatively cheap computer-based recording systems and software synthesis in the late 1990s, it became possible for any home computer user to become a musician, and hence the rise in the number of 'bedroom techno' acts, often consisting of a single person.Īrtists that would later become commercially successfully under the 'electronica' banner such as Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, and Underworld began to record in this early 1990s period. With the explosive growth of sequencing, sampling and synthesis technology in the early 1990s, it became possible for a wider number of musicians to produce electronic music. It is currently used to describe a wide variety of musical acts and styles, linked by a penchant for overtly electronic production a range which includes commercial chart acts such as Goldfrapp and Daniel Bedingfield, glitchy experimental artists such as Autechre and Boards of Canada, to dub-oriented downtempo, downbeat, and trip-hop. In the mid- 1990s electronica began to be used by MTV and major record labels to describe mainstream electronic dance music made by such artists as Chemical Brothers (who had previously been described as big beat) and The Prodigy, although even at this stage it was not a particularly incisive term. Prior to the adoption of 'electronica' as a blanket term for more experimental dance music, terms such as electronic listening music, braindance and intelligent dance music (IDM) were common. The term subsequently gained a life of its own, and became popular in the United States as a means of referring to the then-novel mainstream success of electronic dance music. The origins of the term are murky, although it appears to have been coined by British music paper Melody Maker in the mid- 1990s, originally to describe the electronic rock band Republica. The term has been defined by some to mean modern electronic music that is not necessarily designed for the dance-floor, but rather for home listening. Template:Genrebox Electronica is a rather ambiguous term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music.

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