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Demonrail, you're echoing the things I've been saying for far too long. People on here.. not everyone but a good deal of people are are closeminded and want to discuss aesthetics or something instead of discussing compelling sound. A good melody is a good melody -- I don't care if it's from a glitch artist or a country artist. People who place restrictions upon their listening habits, to me, don't really care about music. There's good artists found in EVERY genre.
I've loved electronic music for a good 10 years now, ever since hearing Atari Teenage Riot and Babyland, and my problem at this point is that I've heard so many artists that do the same shit over and over and sound exactly like everyone else... As someone who has made electronic music, I can testify that a lot of what passes off as great in electronic music isn't terribly difficult to do... you can randomly generate beats and melodies all day long if you want to, honestly... It takes something more than that to be interesting to me... I guess that's why I love Autechre so much.. I mean, they use randomly generated sequencing but they.. I dunno, there's just something about their sound.
The truth is, no two electronic groups should sound anything alike (unless they intend to). There are infinite combinations of tools and sounds... I just think people try to emulate everyone else. The same could be said for any genre but it's especially noticeable in electronic music.
But yeah, if you dismiss music just cuz "duh it's made on a craptop not a rokk geetar", then you need to re-evaluate why you even listen to music to begin with.
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