| Indie dance | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | Indie rock/indie pop, electronic dance music, post-punk/new wave/synthpop/electropop, disco |
| Cultural origins | Early 2000s, Great Britain and United States |
| Typical instruments | vocals - Guitar - Bass guitar - drums - synthesizers - drum machines - NES |
| Mainstream popularity | Underground to high mainstream popularity in the mid to late 2000s. |
| Derivative forms | Electro house |
| Subgenres | |
| Disco punk - New rave - Electronic rock | |
| Fusion genres | |
| Nintendocore - Grindie | |
Indie dance (or simply indie) is a term used to describe a music that developed from electronic dance music and post-punk/indie rock music in the 2000s.[1] The term indie dance was applied to describe the styles of contemporary disco punk, 2000s electronic rock, nintendocore and new rave.[2]
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Style
Stylistically, indie dance music can range from acoustic to electroacoustic to pure electronic. It usually has four-to-the-floor or two step beat, a bassline, rich synthetized or guitar-driven melodies. The vocals in indie dance range from monotonic to screaming to punk- to disco-styled vocals.
History
Disco-punk
The music style known as dance-punk appeared at the beginning of the 21st century.[3] The style was championed by rock- and punk-oriented bands such as Liars, The Rapture and Radio 4. Other groups, such as !!! and The Faint fell somewhere in the middle. There has since been a crystallization of musical forms within dance-punk, with bands such as Death from Above 1979, Test Icicles, Fake Shark - Real Zombie!, The Presets, and Q and Not U exploring aspects of dance-punk, along with post-hardcore and other musical styles. DFA Records can be seen as the current center of the dance-punk genre.
New rave
The British music magazine NME is responsible for popularising the term 'new rave' throughout 2006 and 2007 to describe the music of the band Klaxons.
The aesthetics of the New rave scene are largely similar to those of the original rave scene, being mostly centred around psychedelic visual effects. Glowsticks, neon and other lights are common, and followers of the scene often dress in extremely bright and fluorescent colored clothing.
Electronic rock
As computer technology has become more accessible and music software had advanced, interacting with music production technology became possible using means that bear no relationship to traditional musical performance practices:[4] for instance, laptop performance (laptronica)[5] and live coding.[6]
In the last decade a number of software-based virtual studio environments have emerged, with products such as Propellerhead's Reason and Ableton Live finding popular appeal.[7] Such tools provide viable and cost-effective alternatives to typical hardware-based production studios, and thanks to advances in microprocessor technology, it became possible to create high quality music using little more than a single laptop computer. Such advances have led to a massive increase in the amount of home-produced electronic music available to the general public via the internet. [8] Bands such as The Prodigy, Pendulum, Ratatat, and Nine Inch Nails are a few of the most popular electronic rock bands.
The industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails' album "Year Zero" utilized a heavily edited and distorted guitar sound modified via laptop computer. Allmusic's review described the album's laptop-mixed sound: "guitars squall against glitches, beeps, pops, and blotches of blurry sonic attacks. Percussion looms large, distorted, organic, looped, screwed, spindled and broken."[9] The French electronic duo Justice's album † incorporates a strong rock and metal influence into their music and image. Canadian band Crystal Castles incorporates elements of chiptune and punk rock vocals. Icelandic singer Bjork's song "Declare Independence" from her album Volta featured a heavily modified synth bass guitar sound and strong rock feel. Canadian artist Peaches and various aspects of the Electroclash genre often reflect a strong Rock sensibility. New York's Ratatat is often cited as achieving an "electronic rock" sound.
Nintendocore
The term was first coined, as a joke, by Nathan Winneke, lead singer of a band labeled as Nintendocore, Horse the Band.[citation needed] Notable Nintendocore artists include Sky Eats Airplane, Genghis Tron and Horse the Band.[10][11]
It is characterized by sounding similar to 8-bit video game music/chiptunes, often combined with other genres of music, or remixed variations of old NES video game themes. Nintendocore usually includes the techno-ish, oldschool, beepy sound effects in music along with the screamed vocals present in the metalcore genre.
References
- ^ Beatportal.com: "Beatport launches nu disco / indie dance genre page"
- ^ Beatportal.com: "The Guardian: ‘New Rave is just indie-rock in bright outfits"
- ^ Swaminathan, Nikhil (2003-12-25) - Dance-punk ends scenester dormancy
- ^ Emmerson 2007, 111–13.
- ^ Emmerson 2007, 80-81.
- ^ Emmerson 2007, 115; Collins 2003.
- ^ 23rd Annual International Dance Music Awards: Best Audio Editing Software of the Year - 1st Abelton Live , 4th Reason. Best Audio DJ Software of the Year - Abelton Live.
- ^ url=http://www.cababstractsplus.org/abstracts/Abstract.aspx?AcNo=19941801813 | title=Electronically produced music and its economic effects on the performing musician and music industry. | authors | C. M. Colonna, P. M. Kearns, and J. E. Anderson. | journal = Journal of Cultural Economics
- ^ "Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wzfrxz85ldje~T1. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Everything Perfect on the Wrong Day review". Allmusic. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3xfoxzqhld0e. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
- ^ Leahey, Andrew and Loftus, Johnny. "HORSE the Band". Allmusic. http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gjftxqt0ldde~T1. Retrieved 2009-07-08.
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