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Electronic rock
Electronic rock (also known as electro rock and synth rock) is a music genre that involves a combination of rock music and electronic music, featuring instruments typically found within both genres. It originates from the late 1960s when rock bands began incorporating electronic instrumentation into their music. Electronic rock acts usually fuse elements from other music styles, including punk rock, industrial rock, hip hop, techno and synth-pop, which has helped spur subgenres such as indietronica, dance-punk and electroclash.
Being a fusion of rock and electronic, electronic rock features instruments found in both genres, such as synthesizers, mellotrons, tape music techniques, electric guitars and drums. Some electronic rock artists, however, often eschew guitar in favor of using technology to emulate a rock sound. Vocals are typically mellow or upbeat, but instrumentals are also common in the genre.
One of the earliest composers to use electronic instruments in a rock context was Joe Meek, with the 1960 concept album I Hear a New World and the 1962 single "Telstar", recorded by The Tornados. These works adapted instrumental patterns to an electronic studio setting, predating the later use of technology in rock music.
The integration of electronic sound into rock music developed further during the mid-1960s. A notable example is the Beatles’ 1966 track "Tomorrow Never Knows", which musicologist Walter Everett describes as "an innovative example of electronic music as much as it advanced the leading edge of the rock world." Scholars and critics frequently cite the recording as a seminal work in the emergence of electronic rock, influencing later genres including new wave.
In the same year, the Beach Boys employed similar innovations on the hit "Good Vibrations", which Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco, authors of the 2004 book Analog Days, credit with having "popularly connected far-out, electronic sounds with rock 'n' roll." Other early acts to blend synthesizers and musique concrète's tape music techniques with rock instrumentation included Silver Apples, Fifty Foot Hose, the United States of America, White Noise, Gong,Syrinx, Lothar and the Hand People, Beaver & Krause and Tonto's Expanding Head Band. Many such 1960s acts blended psychedelic rock with avant-garde academic or underground influences.
In the 1970s, German krautrock bands such as Neu!, Kraftwerk, Can and Amon Düül challenged rock boundaries by incorporating electronic instrumentation. In 2004, Uncut described Kraftwerk's "incalculable" impact on electronic rock as being felt on major records like David Bowie's Low (1977) and Radiohead's Kid A (2000). Since the late 2000s, electronic rock has become increasingly popular.
The term "progressive rock" (or "prog rock") was originally coined in the 1960s for music that would otherwise be described as "electronic rock," but the definition of "prog" later narrowed into a specific set of musical conventions as opposed to a sensibility involving forward-thinking or experimental approaches.
Electronic rock is also associated with industrial rock, synth-pop, dance-punk, indietronica, and new wave, with electroclash, new rave, post-punk revival, post-rock, considered as subgenres. Sometimes, certain other electronic subgenres are fused with rock, such as trance and techno, leading to the use of the terms trance rock and techno rock, respectively.
Electronic rock
Electronic rock (also known as electro rock and synth rock) is a music genre that involves a combination of rock music and electronic music, featuring instruments typically found within both genres. It originates from the late 1960s when rock bands began incorporating electronic instrumentation into their music. Electronic rock acts usually fuse elements from other music styles, including punk rock, industrial rock, hip hop, techno and synth-pop, which has helped spur subgenres such as indietronica, dance-punk and electroclash.
Being a fusion of rock and electronic, electronic rock features instruments found in both genres, such as synthesizers, mellotrons, tape music techniques, electric guitars and drums. Some electronic rock artists, however, often eschew guitar in favor of using technology to emulate a rock sound. Vocals are typically mellow or upbeat, but instrumentals are also common in the genre.
One of the earliest composers to use electronic instruments in a rock context was Joe Meek, with the 1960 concept album I Hear a New World and the 1962 single "Telstar", recorded by The Tornados. These works adapted instrumental patterns to an electronic studio setting, predating the later use of technology in rock music.
The integration of electronic sound into rock music developed further during the mid-1960s. A notable example is the Beatles’ 1966 track "Tomorrow Never Knows", which musicologist Walter Everett describes as "an innovative example of electronic music as much as it advanced the leading edge of the rock world." Scholars and critics frequently cite the recording as a seminal work in the emergence of electronic rock, influencing later genres including new wave.
In the same year, the Beach Boys employed similar innovations on the hit "Good Vibrations", which Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco, authors of the 2004 book Analog Days, credit with having "popularly connected far-out, electronic sounds with rock 'n' roll." Other early acts to blend synthesizers and musique concrète's tape music techniques with rock instrumentation included Silver Apples, Fifty Foot Hose, the United States of America, White Noise, Gong,Syrinx, Lothar and the Hand People, Beaver & Krause and Tonto's Expanding Head Band. Many such 1960s acts blended psychedelic rock with avant-garde academic or underground influences.
In the 1970s, German krautrock bands such as Neu!, Kraftwerk, Can and Amon Düül challenged rock boundaries by incorporating electronic instrumentation. In 2004, Uncut described Kraftwerk's "incalculable" impact on electronic rock as being felt on major records like David Bowie's Low (1977) and Radiohead's Kid A (2000). Since the late 2000s, electronic rock has become increasingly popular.
The term "progressive rock" (or "prog rock") was originally coined in the 1960s for music that would otherwise be described as "electronic rock," but the definition of "prog" later narrowed into a specific set of musical conventions as opposed to a sensibility involving forward-thinking or experimental approaches.
Electronic rock is also associated with industrial rock, synth-pop, dance-punk, indietronica, and new wave, with electroclash, new rave, post-punk revival, post-rock, considered as subgenres. Sometimes, certain other electronic subgenres are fused with rock, such as trance and techno, leading to the use of the terms trance rock and techno rock, respectively.