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wild bill buttock wrote:Actually I am quite partial to a little EBM/techno goth/whatever its called,but after about an hour of, what sounds like the same track, I'm ready to stick the guilty DJ's pseudo-techno wank up his stupid arse.
Most EBM is abject bollocks.If I wanted rave I'd go to a rave and not a goth night.And you can stick your glow-sticks,wooly wigs,goggles and spandex up your arse.Cyber goths are wankers who are too old/fat/frightened to get into proper techno.
And as for all those bands that sound like Depeche mode?FFFS!!!!

EBM IS DEAD,FACT! And good bloody riddance,I say!!!!


Thanks for listening.None of this applies to Covenant,VNV nation,XPQ21 or Front 242 who make exceptionally fine music

A man after my own heart.

I'm not even that keen on Covenant or VNV, and I don't even know who XPQ21 are.

Although I would like a copy of the "Welcome To Paradise / Headhunter" 12-inch to be taken into consideration

ebm = dodgy european goth wannabees trying to sound like erasure

these so-called modern ebm bands should be ashamed of themselves - they've hi-jacked a term once used to describe a collection of electronic bands & musicians who were pioneers in their field, pushing boundaries and conventions of what "pop" and "rock" music should be, how it should sound, and how it should be structured

these modern ebm kiddies have taken an idea and watered it down and turned it into a genre of music thats so derivative and self-referential that the majority of bands are indistinguishable from each other

utter nonsense

they way i see it, if you're going to listen to techno, at least make it good techno, made by people who understand the medium in which they are working, and not this pompous sub-disco s**t made by dodgy euro-goths who have listened to too much erasure

am i a music snob? hell yes

indeed

wild bill buttock wrote:Actually I am quite partial to a little EBM/techno goth/whatever its called,but after about an hour of, what sounds like the same track, I'm ready to stick the guilty DJ's pseudo-techno wank up his stupid arse.
Most EBM is abject bollocks.If I wanted rave I'd go to a rave and not a goth night.And you can stick your glow-sticks,wooly wigs,goggles and spandex up your arse.Cyber goths are wankers who are too old/fat/frightened to get into proper techno.
And as for all those bands that sound like Depeche mode?FFFS!!!!

EBM IS DEAD,FACT! And good bloody riddance,I say!!!!


Thanks for listening.None of this applies to Covenant,VNV nation,XPQ21 or Front 242 who make exceptionally fine music

Harsh but true.

Well, maybe not entirely, but still... And just like goth has its teen velvet-clad pseudo vampires (among others), EBM has its clown too (you could argue that every genre has them, but not to the same degree). The difference being that while goths spend their time looking all romantic and/or intense, electro-heads on the other hand try very hard to look real tough. But they're laughable all the same.

Note : only talking from own experience, with some examples in mind, maybe not representative, blah blah blah...

I think some people mistake Electronic Body Music for this modern, futurepop- hellectro - electro/industrial goth dance bollocks.

EBM did not die, it merely did not renovate after Front 242... the old bands still do it with verve, the new batch are just pish (apart from Suicide Commando, sorry, I have a real weak spot for Johan Van Roy )

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:I think some people mistake Electronic Body Music for this modern, futurepop- hellectro - electro/industrial goth dance bollocks.

Not entirely. I don't know about the new wave of EBM anyway (let's say what happened over the last ten years). I don't really remember using the term EBM anyway. EBM was quite narrow, we prefered the terms "electro" or sometimes "dark techno".
It wasn't just the music I had a problem with (but TBH sometimes it was), it was also the fans. Plastic noise experience was okay for instance, but the fans...

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:I think some people mistake Electronic Body Music for this modern, futurepop- hellectro - electro/industrial goth dance bollocks.

EBM did not die, it merely did not renovate after Front 242... the old bands still do it with verve, the new batch are just pish (apart from Suicide Commando, sorry, I have a real weak spot for Johan Van Roy )

IZ.

true, even about the Suicide Commando bit.
its a shame there are so few EBM bands left, this futurepop stuff is growing bigger and bigger and attracting the wrong kind of people
basicly nothing wrong with that but those people have no ties with the eloctro history. I think EBM isn't dead yet but it won't be long before it will be. ...

I love the ebm

i´ve got a lot of vinils!! one of my hobbies is to be a dj, to mix those records!!!
i´ve got a couple of technics and a mising desk,

i´ve been doing it for 10 years(i worked in clubs when i was younger)

if there´s someone interested in this sound i can download one set mixed by me of that music!!!!

dtsom wrote:
i´ve got a couple of technics and a mising desk,

Do you have to put your Technics on the floor because your desk is missing then?

wild bill buttock wrote:

dtsom wrote:
i´ve got a couple of technics and a mising desk,

Do you have to put your Technics on the floor because your desk is missing then?

That was so cheap!

IZ.

wild bill buttock wrote:

dtsom wrote:
i´ve got a couple of technics and a mising desk,

Do you have to put your Technics on the floor because your desk is missing then?

at wild bill buttock:

What are XPQ 21 like? I'm seeing them at whiby but am not familier with there music.

Planet Dave wrote:

Nic wrote:

Big Si wrote:

This fella caused Mr Blast to have many a sleepless night

Is it the same guy as your avatar?

Looks like the lass in the background is about to lamp someone. Possibly me.

Where's the pic from Si? Mixing Tin at WiJ? I guess these places all look the same.

That's from HL3 2005 at Friday Flock.

Mr Blast was expecting to see lots of dusky buttressed goth maidens, instead he got exhibit A!

Front 242 and Skinny Puppy are the main ones for me, although I wouldn't really classify Skinny Puppy as EBM.

Gotta love 242 though. Official Version, anyone? Beautiful beautiful LP.

mh wrote:Front 242 and Skinny Puppy are the main ones for me, although I wouldn't really classify Skinny Puppy as EBM.

Gotta love 242 though. Official Version, anyone? Beautiful beautiful LP.

It's really really good, Quite Unusual is one of my fav F242 songs!