The Electro Wars documentary
March 15th, 2010
Both my brother and I were featured in this documentary on the Electro scene, which I believe I slated to premiere at WMC in a few weeks. It also features Justice, Steve Aoki, MSTRKRFT, DJ Premier, LMFAO, Lil Jon and an actual sidechain compressor. For more info check thelectrowars.com.
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This will be one of the dopest films of this year PERIOD!!!!!!!
Wow this looks good.
Wow, this looks shitty. Actually, it’s a perfect example about how wrong electronic music in the US can get.
Here’s how I see it (for the most part): You import some “new-ish” styles, hype them to death with a crazy social media overload, with more party photographers than actual party people, with corporate sponsorships and what-not, create a whole scene with crappy musical knock-offs and wanna-be’s that contribute nothing to genre evolution but rather wank off to imitation.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a couple of artists featured in the clip. I’m positive A-Trak knows what’s up and he released great stuff (but then, still: that collabo with that Travis dude, come on!?), loved Spank Rock’s album (it’s been a while, though …), Chromeo I adore since the You’re So Gangsta 12″, and so on. …
But then – why would this scene consider a dude like Will.I.Am to be relevant and embrace his presence? Same with Lil Jon. They got nothing to do with it besides making an easy buck and getting some sort of credibility with those attention craving hipsters … (And why would the great Premo even care about that stuff? Why?). All those acts like LMAO and Steve Aoki that just repeat the formula – they just suck so very hard!
Judging from this clip, it proves so many clichés us Europeans have towards the US. It’s like comparing Brigitte Bardot to Pamela Anderson, if you know what I mean.
So many fresh electronic musicians and scenes in the US, but that cheap knock-off gets so much attention? That’s just sad …
HA! “and an actual sidechain compressor” BANGERBANGERBANGER. BLOGBLOGBLOG. NOMNOMNOM.
Ummm to Lousy Vuitton, the collab with Travis Barker originally started wtih DJ AM and A LOT of people fell in love with it, including myself. It wasn’t an evolution, it was a revolution. My heart dropped when A-Trak announced TravisXATrak, it was like a dream, and they definitely killed it. It was one of the best shows ever since… a longgg time. And A-Trak is honored to be carrying on the legacy, but in a different and new taste.
Lousy Vuitton Boy you must be stupid WHAT award or credit or anything makes you rate a video “trailer” Dumb ass people like this will judge shit they know little about. Your talking shit out of opinion nothing is fact man. My music is being featured in this film and it’s going to be amazing. The electro genre is growing and is shaping if you want to judge a young genre go right ahead and shit on yourself all you want you have the right. But i’m apart of this film too so watch what words you type next time BOY!!!!!
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Debate! Debate! Debate!
Hahaha, your gettin a kick outta this uh A?
People can dislike it, love it or feel so-so about it. But I can’t think of any other DVD that’s based on the electro/electro-house that would be better than this one (Are there any even out there!?).
Sure this DVD should of been released around 2007-2008 (due to the birth of the genre online) but better late than never.
Rather than trying to interpret the whole DVD and point out the flaws and errors, I’m going to enjoy what all these guys have to say about the music they love to make and how its been fed to grow into this machine it is today.
I’m so glad this movement has been captured, visualised and (finally) presented to the rest of the world.
Looking forward to it!
Ok what the hell does lil jon, pitbulls song stealing unoriginal ass, and dj camillo have to with electro .. and i don’t hate .. but “lmfao” is a joke as well. Get real people who actually have a lot of stuff to say about the genre and then interview them. i won’t judge the documentary until it’s out .. but i kinda agree with “lousy” at this moment in time .. i’ll wait and see how the dvd is though before i shoot my opinions off.
A documentary is supposed to cover all sides and opinions. i’m not a fan of LMFAO either but their genre does stick with electro whether they seem to be original or not. And Lil Jon is a fan of the electro scene so just because he’s a rapper, it doesn’t mean he has no clue or opinions about electro. If there was a documentary on rap/hip hop, I wouldn’t be surprised to see A-Trak interviewed because after all, he did DJ for Kanye and was involved with that genre of music for a while. And I definitely would consider most of the artists featured in this trailer as “real” artists.
Well said Lily, well said.
I’d like to interject for a moment. First off, no-one’s opinion should be discredited, as Lily pointed out this is a documentary and its purpose is to spawn debate. Secondly, I agree with some of “Lousy’s” points, especially the one about the negative European bias towards American based Electro producers. However, I don’t understand why you’re attacking all the mainstream acts that are adopting electronic elements into their own style. Music is evolving and it just so happens that its leaning towards EDM for inspiration, I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Oversaturation, maybe… But that’s exactly why I meshed the mainstream cats with the lesser known producers and DJs, to illustrate how EDM has infiltrated top 40 radio. You have acts like Ke$ha completely biting off Uffie’s style, and cats like LMFAO making names for themselves by remixing Kanye, this is what happens when indie music is tapped and compromised. None of you have watched the film, but I can tell you right now that you’re going to come out debating further, simply because this is probably the most indefinable genre in music history. The artists themselves have trouble defining it. As for Premo, well he’s a fan of all genres of music and he was put on to this music by DJ AM, a close friend of his, he’s actually well versed in the genre believe it or not.
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totally agree with lousy vuitton. us kids: get a life! electro scene invented in 2007-2008???? are you serious? just because YOU were only into hiphop and lousy plastic r’n'b before 2007 doesn’t mean electro music didn’t exist before! most of the bands featured in this trailer stand for an already dead selfdestructingbynotevolvingbutonlyreproducing big mistake in the long long evolution of electronic music. the emphasis of this “genre” is completely on the wrong elements of electronic music. just take a look to what’s next (but you need to watch over to london, paris or berlin) and you see me proven right! here’s my bet: this kind of music will die as soon as the marketingmusicindustry feeds you the next new shit. and this will be very very soon! remember me then!
it’s true “audiodidact” .. as soon as mainstream picksu p on this .. which will be soon .. the genre will slow down .. and eventually come to a halt. however we can “reject the mainstream” .. idc how naive that sounds, it’s possible, and still make great music. same thing happened to hip hop. there has to be ways to avoid making this happen. any suggestions ppl ?
Bring the TRUTH! its about time, i’ve been saying these things for a long time! I’m a bedroom dj, who would eaisly trump many on the 1′s and 2′s. Hopefully when I get to chicago i’ll get the chance to demonstrate my opion with my sound! here it comes!
personally, i would like to see some interviews with artists like Adult., who kept the connection to synthpop during a time when electro faded off the radar in the US, before the sounds of electro were embraced by pop and rap.
ignorant mafuckers on here complaining about lil jon are obviously the ones new to electro, but caught on before the kids did, or, they were so euro with it the whole time, slept on what was happening to electro in the US, and now show up bitter and confused.
Very interesting doc, will definitely look out for that. Takes me back to the early Dim Mak, Hush hush, & check yo ponytail parties and of course the first fools gold party @ the roxy. I know the scene will never be the same again but i’d like to see what’s next with all the “heavy hitter” type producers, DJs, and musicians jumping into the scene.
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hey what songs are playing in this video?
This is going to be a great documentary, I’m looking forward to it.
I’ve never gotten why people lose respect for stuff once it becomes “mainstream” but i’m starting to realize a common thread. There is always 2 main sides of culture (Mainstream/Popular vs. Counter Culture) Look through out history and you’ll see it’s true
80′s: Yuppies vs. Punk/Neon
90′s: Grunge vs. Prep
2000′s: Douche Bags (Youtube “My New Haircut”) vs. Hipsters.
When you hear this style of electro (I won’t define it exactly) it use to only be popular with the Hipster/indie scene about 2-3 years ago. It was counter culture. Where it was only being played in select clubs, now if you pop into a Top 40 club you’ll likely hear some electro, it’s entered mainstream culture. AudioAddict made a good point a lot of where the US scene is going is usually dependent on Europe (I won’t say all the time though) It’s unfortunate that just because this electro is entering the mainstream that it will begin to slow down and new stuff will enter the counter culture (I’ve been hearing a lot about dubstep lately, who knows). Just because this stuff is becoming mainstream it doesn’t make it bad music. I think people need to stop being so concerned with what “scene” music belongs too or who’s listening to it. It doesn’t matter if a hipster, a meathead, jock, noob, a grandma is listening to it, if your enjoy it, THEN ENJOY IT…..unless it’s nickelback.
This is a load of crap!
How can you call this electro? I call this ‘wanktro’!
Electro (including Techno) doesn’t take its roots from hip-hop but from disco you b%tches, these guys aren’t artists but ‘scratchers’, ‘turntablists’ that are not hip-hop neither electro (talking about the electro wannabes).
Electro starts with Germany, and there is no f%cking hip-hop there – even if I do like hip hop. Detroit guys as Jeff Mills are not ‘hip-hoppers’ either, but rather funk, jazzy ones.
In 10 years all this crap will be DEAD.
Adieu.
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Ok Frenchy…
electro actually started in New york city… Afrika Bambatta took some kraftwerk samples and made ‘electro’ with planet rock.. this was the first time the phrase was used and this was ‘proper electro’…
You might see my man Qbert talk about this in the film…
Now from that there was alot of electro, basically all ‘breakbeats’ not 4/4
the german ‘electro’ sound of dj hell and all that electro clash stuff was usually 4/4 and had more to do with italo and disco than ‘electro’
eventually the die hard ppl stopped complaining that this ‘electroclash’ wasnt proper electro and it got swallowed up by the term…
than the monster of electro found its next target which was the whole indie dance scene of modular records from australia, ed banger, etc… now it sounded even less than the original ‘electro’ and seemed to mean anything indie…
than America followed suit , although i must say Adult from the us has made some incredible electro over the years… and some electro clash acts were big… but some dropped of the radar and found it hard to stay relevant, since they were used to being ‘famous’ just because they were on a label…
were as now, the most important thing is relevance, and as many acts have lept to great fame just through a couple of remixes while the dinasaurs fade…
well enough of my rant, i do have to say i used to only buy super rare glitch from germany when i started to dj and was very elitist, but i now feel there is a place for all types of music… even the MOST commercial stuff might be eventually bridge someone to musical depths of Farben/jan jelinek/loop finding jazz records
Lets fade out the h8 and pitch up the love
Tom from Crystal Love =)
ELECTRO IS GARBAGE! It is the grunge music of our generation. This is not a movement as Hip Hop or Rock and Roll was, this is simply a fad. By the way they dress, dance, and all of their music sounds the same. American electro started with Mantronix, Masta Don, and artist as such. KIDS PLEASE STOP TRYING TO COMPARE YOUR LIFESTYLE TO SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY HAD SUBSTANCE. I respect A Trak as a DJ all day, and respect his hard work. I give this seen another few months, AND YET AGAIN the house and electro DJs will go looking for the Hip Hop DJs, fuck you and what you stand for! What happened to the days when we wouldn’t do this shit just for fun? When the DJ actually stood for something other than jumping up and down on the stage and blending 16 bars….. Pathetic.
[...] “But that’s exactly why I meshed the mainstream cats with the lesser known producers and DJs, to illustrate how EDM has infiltrated top 40 radio. You have acts like Ke$ha completely biting off Uffie’s style, and cats like LMFAO making names for themselves by remixing Kanye, this is what happens when indie music is tapped and compromised. None of you have watched the film, but I can tell you right now that you’re going to come out debating further, simply because this is probably the most indefinable genre in music history. The artists themselves have trouble defining it” (Extraido de aquí). [...]
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I agree with Lousy Vuitton. Shit documentary for sure…complete mess and utterly naive.