Electronica vs. Hip Hop
What makes your soul move? Well for me its Electronica and Hip Hop. These two genres are the main choice of disk jockeys around the world because it gets people to dance. No other genre can give the energy or lifestyle that Electronica and Hip Hop creates. Although these music styles are so different, they also share many similarities.
Electronica all started with the death of disco. All over the globe people started experimenting with different sounds created by electronic tools. This experimentation gave Electronica a sense of intelligence over all of the other genres of music expressed after the disco era. Underground clubs in New York, London, and Detroit began playing new types of Electronic music that soon went global and has quickly fragmented into an infinite number of styles and subgenres.
Sub-genres of Electronica can be defined mainly by their speed or measured in beats per minute. Songs with a lower bpm tend to be less repetitive than songs with a higher bpm. Usually a disk jockey will choose a song with a high bpm to keep his audiences attention. These songs would classify under a House, Trance, Techno, and Breakbeat sub-genres. Slow bpm Electronica is
more of a listening experience. This is much like the Ambient, Intelligent, Trip Hop, and Downbeat sub-genres. One element used by Electronica’s sub-genres is sampling.
Sampling is the process of recording digital sound into memory. In other words, songs of the Electronica genre sample parts other songs from different genres. This is the creation of the Remix. Remixes are great ways for an Electronica disk jockey to gain attention and recognition from his or hers audience by making their mix better than the original. This is all made possible by certain tools used by Electronica disk jockeys.
The sampler, which is obviously used to record pieces of songs to be played back in a song, is a common tool. Turntables are a great tool for mixing songs together or just to play music by means of a long-playing phonograph record or an LP. They are highly used by disk jockeys when they are playing live. The most powerful and widely used Electronic tool is the computer. By using the computer, a disk jockey can recreate any sound, instrument, or song all in a real time environment. The computer has brought Electronica music to a whole new level.
Hip Hop, or rap music began as a largely black, inner-city phenomenon of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. It was originally a strictly live idiom, performed at clubs and parties. This way of playing music was a great way to bring great energy to its audience on a personal level.
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