What Were The Best Years In Electronic Music History?

"hey, watch where you point that thing!"

Before 1960

this should be done in half decades rather than specific years (e.g. 1970-1975 76-80 ect) as half decades do represent an era or technological advancement more

specific years are far too short for any 'movement' as such

Fuck yeah, 2007!

that had Justice, and Teenage Bad Girl and... uh... Jackson's Justice remix...

...i just wasted a vote didn't I?

1993: SAW and Incunabula

would have pinned year 2000 to have been a bigger year then it was - were relatively few releases that year

i was a touch disagreeable there troon, my apologies.

not a problem my friend - you are very kind to mention it - alls well that ends well

I think 1992-1995 were the best years as this was the time electronic music became truly mainstream on a large scale and innovation spread in all directions that wasn't necessarily limited by current technology of that time but also employed the creative virtues of older gear.

Before then you had a handful of novelty superstars like Kraftwerk or Jarre but electronic music around this time was fuelled by cheaper technology and more importantly the dance/E explosion akin to the rock/acid revolution of the 60's and both are considered the norm today.

Also looking back at the music from this period I personally think a lot of it still has a timeless innovative charm that later got lost in commercial genres and disposable club music. I could easily play something from one of my Trance Europe Express comps next to some modern IDM/Braindance and it would fit right in.

Ok things have gotten more refined since then but nearly all modern electronic music one way or another has sprouted from the rhythmic allure and cool that dance music created in the early 90's, you only have to look at how music technology has come on in leaps and bounds since then to the point of a complete studio sitting on your lap. Before then (if you didn't live in Detroit or graced Chicago's underground) electronic music was for geeks who stayed in all day waiting for a cassette to load the latest issue of Zapp or ageing hippies with worn out Tangerine Dream vinyl's.

///rant over

  On 8/2/2010 at 2:04 AM, enxyme said:

Electronic music surely didn't hit it's peak until virtual studios became available...

WHAT? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

I've honestly never laughed at anything more on WATMM than this. Well, maybe apart from batcock, and, err, burlap.

My vote went to 1981. If I were to pinpoint a time when electronic music became a phenomenon, that would be it.

i don't have a knowledge on electronic music spanning 50 years, so i won't give my opinion.

honestly i don't really care.

  On 8/9/2010 at 9:55 PM, xy_politics said:

  On 8/2/2010 at 2:04 AM, enxyme said:

Electronic music surely didn't hit it's peak until virtual studios became available...

WHAT? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

I've honestly never laughed at anything more on WATMM than this. Well, maybe apart from batcock, and, err, burlap.

 

My vote went to 1981. If I were to pinpoint a time when electronic music became a phenomenon, that would be it.

2001 is the leading vote getter at the moment...

you must be the only one laughing...

Well it depends, i love the 70's with the experimental stuff, or even earlier with kid baltan but whatever the year is i think the 90's or the 20's made the best stuff, single year is hard

1996

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