Rock History 101 - Electroclash

[Alin82]

Fuck electroclash! And by the way, Ladytron are NOT electroclash. Check Ladytron and electroclash Wikipedia pages.

[Snutih]

PEACHES QUEEN OF THE GENRE!!!

[SregorNadroj]

What the FUCK is Electroclash? And why the FUCK is it on a vlog about rock history?

[retroEddz]

@SregorNadroj electroclash is a term that describes electronic music which borrows heavily from simplistic, minimal synthesizer bands of the late '70s and '80s. The term associates itself with a flamboyant fashion sense that usually accompanies the music, all which is a part of the 'electroclash' scene.

[MagicPill1o1]

mannn, i love electroclash, and idk what yall r talkin about, ya here in the USA its pretty dead 2 the mainstream, the last major electroclash project here when Felix Da Housecat in the late 90's when he was working with Miss Kitten (a French electro clash star) and even sense then Miss Kitten has gone back 2 Europe and Felix has moved on from electroclash.

[shoreline1230]

For everyone whom hates this video, why don't you actually post some of the "real history" versus showing up how amazingly big your penises are.

[KapStuf]

@shoreline1230 I'm glad you appreciate our penises, but do you really think a history will fit in a youtube comment? It's even bigger than...well, yes.

[KapStuf]

Not a single true statement in the whole video. Just another journalist who spent one minute misunderstanding a wikipedia article, then went in front of the camera trying to sound like an expert.

[ichigopeach]

0:42 Hm. Looks like 'Ladytron'.:/ but wow, that's very interesting about the history of electroclash.:D

[rfranquinho]

LOL, these guys have no f*ing clue about what they are talking about..

[1guitarkid]

what australian bands are electroclash?

[fullmooninu]

alive and well in europe: aka sexy sushi

[str8organic38mm]

enn America U dance tu electro

een russia electrovik dances on you

[fitgro]

wooow I LOVE ELECTROCLASH

[ManicMindTrick]

I have the two greatest electroclash tracks ever recorded on my channel:

Komatrohn - Mirrors & Chrome, Scared of Girls.

Check it out!

[ShamRocofficial]

hey , im just starting to listening 2 electroclash , my favorite artist is felix da housecat...what are some other artist like him?

[THELIVINGJOKE]

I don't know how people can label something dead just because the mass audience are not crazy over it anymore.

[macintosser]

@THELIVINGJOKE

Hear. Hear.

[GenoSkill]

@THELIVINGJOKE thats what the fucking tv piece of shit does

[thejobloshow]

it's dead? uh well.

[Faelsun]

I wouldn't call Ladytron Electroclash. Just because someone figured out how to label Synth Jesus Christ. Guess what Enon was in NY a long time before this jackass figured out the word electroclash and a good deal more bands to.

[volunteerz]

I believe french electroclash really sounds fresh and constantly reinventing itself

[LeChatAlice]

@volunteerz ca you recommend some bands pls? I know only kap bambiono, sexy sushi ....

[wizotch]

@LeChatAlice pzycho bitch, angel spit, baal...

[ne0nsurf]

boring song, boring singer. get some talent, loser.

[CryogenicXsean]

"There stage shows take presidence over there actual music" - well, lady GaGa used to work in a performance art group with lady starlight! Not aying she's electroclash, but there is what seems like influence!

[ddmnd]

The industry kills and steals from the underground.then it finds a way to prepackage and market it to the households, then it makes it the new "cool" thing... guess that sums up lady gaga.. I thought she was Fischerspooner meets Goldfrapp when i saw her photo,but when i heard her music i wanted to kick a hole in the radio. yeah she sucks that much!

[elise3sings]

what is the song that is playing in the background (first 2 )

[xr6bat]

one of the songs is by Fischerspooner - Emerge

[ferdianeary92]

why do you guys try be cool n know genres in AND out haha just listen to it! n know some stuff about it

its a bit of a waste of time :/

[voteelectro]

@ferdianeary92

thank you. :D

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

it depends if underground bands keep their sounds, then no, not everything dies.

[TheNinetySecond]

that discussion is very good, cause i think there is too much empty pop around trying to be something it is not. But what i dont understand, is how this categories as rock?

[retrogawd]

I was there man

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

I did, your videos suck

[ne0nsurf]

everyone downrate and flag this video as it's done by some rebarative bozo at mania tv who hasn't nary a fucking clue as to how it started.

[ForwardN2Unknown]

@ne0nsurf What does "rebarative" mean? 

[ne0nsurf]

this video is EPIC FAIL. the first electro-clash was dj hell.

this whole video is suspect in fact because miss kitten and the hacker were probably the first.

[dinesor]

IF's made the first electro-clash track?

hm, would'nt classify this as e-clash.

[nouveauxdecadence]

If you look at Felix Da House Cat, he sampled the whole back beat of "The Sound Of The Crowd" by The Human League from 1982 on his track "Harlot", the opening track from "Kittenz & Thee Glitz"

Also a track like "Warm Leatherette" by The Normal, circa 1980 is another track that Electroclash heavily borrowed from! One more thing, Player 1 had "Space Invaders" in 1980 long before this so called first Electroclash track born in "1998" which funnily enough has "Space Invaders" in the title!

[ne0nsurf]

learn your history. warm leatherette was 78

[nouveauxdecadence]

Yes, Electroclash does have a slightly different feel to Synth Pop. BUT it's not something that came out of the late 90s. Tracings of Electroclash go right back to the late 70s with offerings from the likes of Fad Gadget, Early Human League, Kraftwerk, Telex & many more.

Electroclash is just an extension of what bands like Yazoo, Early Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, Visage and many others were doing long ago! It is just a progression in style which depends on what taste one has in Electronic Music

[callmedmitriy]

electroclash is garbage, a shitty rehashing of synth pop, without any substance to it whatsoever

[MichaelJacksonFan87]

Says you. : P

[voteelectro]

The first song (when the clip starts) is Ooh, I like it - Whatever it Takes. Second is Emerge - Fischerspooner. Third (the video with the three models in the back) is My Friend Dario - Vitalic. Fourth (vid with the subway thing) is Rocket Ride - Felix da Housecat. Fifth is Set it Off - Peaches. Sixth (vid with pink stripe) is Seventeen - Ladytron. Seventh (vid with black mask) is Professional Distortion - Miss Kittin.

Hope that helps!! :) I love all of these groups/artists.

[studio54jojo]

larry tee coined the term electroclash

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

no he didn't, dj hell did.

[mholzem]

I'm glad Fischerspooner is getting more publicity. They're amazing.

[TehShiaT11einself]

Song, 0.37? I NEED 2 KNOW IT :/// plz

[aciiidow]

whats the video at 1:00???

and the final song???

[Davidz72]

Don't know what the final video is, but the final song is the single remix of Set It Off by Peaches

[Olphus]

what's the song at 10:43?

[lesoldatperdu]

What's the clip at 0:58 from?

[lesoldatperdu]

Nevermind, it's Felix Da Housecat - Rocket Ride.

[Cyber64]

whats the song called at :40?!

[alfirealire]

it's emerge of fischerspooner

[RMM92]

cherry bikini?

[Fatizl]

electroclash cames from Berlin..not from the US

[skatons]

you guys like this check SEXY SUSHI, its a new french electroclash band!and feel free to let me know what you think!

[bloodyserdcetea]

They're fucking awesome.

[nigel65deck]

picked up in Berlin? it was here already

[bloodyserdcetea]

Well this was done by the US so they always say that in "the land of the free" everything was here first.

[bloodyserdcetea]

The US made this report so what'd you expect? In the "land of the free", they wanna take credit for everything.

[sproket343]

wrong. the band "The Normal" started Electroclash in 1979 with the hit songs "Warm Leatherette" and "TVOD." Everyone after that was a follower who claims "they started it." As long as we are doing "history" here.

[VernianProcess]

Technically electroclash is a big mesh of different electronic styles of music. Most notably (as stated above) early analog synthpop, electro-funk, ebm, italo-disco, house (and it's many variants). But yeah "The Normal" were one of the first (pre-dated by The Human League, Kraftwerk, and a handful of other 70's artists)

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

actually you're both wrong, electro-clash is punk meets electro. you might be thinking of electro-wave instead, but even that is more electrotechno based.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

btw the normal songs came out in 78' not 79'. anyway it doesn't matter because the whole sheffield futursim sound was in 77-79. they all wanted to be kraftwerk

[djlones]

Too bad its all over... electrohouse & dirtyhouse ruined it all. im soo crying rigth now :(

[liav83]

THE LAST SONG IS FROM PEACHES!

[Hellhathnofury]

What's the video called for the scene with the girl in the black mask at the end?

[omgiwaslike]

miss kittin - professional distortion

[DieGrauzone]

larry tee sucks dick

[bondyman007]

Damn straight it's picked up in Aus! It's a great genre, really flashy and bouncy. Plus with groups like The Presets, Cut Copy, Bang Gang, Tonite Only, Gameboy/Gamegirl, PNAU and Van She, the aussie music scene would be shit right now. The only downside is The Veronicas stole the sound, so it'll be commercial within a year. :(

[nycanthro]

Is Aussie Electroclash as centered around bizarre fashion as it was in the U.S.?

[bondyman007]

yeah it's pretty wacky i suppose, more kinda alternative than anything. Fluoro was really big last year but now it's a old, bizzare patterns n cool tshirts n shit are in now. check out pics of Gameboy/Gamegirl and The Presets for the style. They're on myspace

[luciorobo]

Never trust the tv !!!

[mindbodydave]

Does anybody know the name of the band/song for the music video with all the scantily clad girls in daisy dukes and bikinis using power tools (jack hammers, etc.)?

Thanks

[agracul]

benassi - satisfaction

may i ask, if u were from mars not to know that?

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

wrong

[talktal]

it's still around, the DJs just stripped out the vocals and call it dirty disko now

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

wrong

[talktal]

no, right. ive been into the underground scene a lot longer than you. you have no clue whatsoever.  youre calling pink electroclash for god's sake. what the hell do you know?

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

No you haven't you inane and rebarative loser. you FAIL. you haven't nary a fucking clue as to what you're talking about nor do you know my age, n00b.

I was making the point that even pink. lady gaga, and lilly allen often try to dress in the electroclash style and yes in fact they do have some electro sounding tracks on their cds. So you clearly lack the proper mental acuity to comprehend, plebeian.

[klownkilla609]

theyre not even close to elctroclash

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

they are not electro clash per se but they are using electro in their music and electro clash elements in their fashion styles to some extent. they are wannabes, much like you.

case closed

[klownkilla609]

that makes no sense at all.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

that's because you lack the proper mental acuity to comprehend.

[klownkilla609]

yup because i dont understand why you called me a wannabe for disagreeing with you.

[versuslosangeles83]

electroclash in 2000?! are you kidding me what about felix da house cat doing the second wave of house, that branched off to electroclash back in the early 90's !

[JoeyDee]

I second that! Felix - Miss Kitten, The Hacker.... and others...

but I think this girl in the video was talking about Clash hitting big in the US in the 2000....

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

actually miss kitten and the hacker did it well before felix.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

not quite.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

furthermore house is dead and has been for a while. what's big is e-clash, e-wave, etc. people went way back in time to create electroclash and meshed human league, fag gadget, the normal, kraftwerk etc. i.e. techno.

[smokyandjuliet]

Ok, so from what I know, the clip with the people painting stipes on their faces is from a song called "Emerge" by FischerSpooner, the one with the girl in sunglasses from the song "My Friend Dario" by Vitalic and the girls in black with the red stripe behind them from the band Ladytron.

[agracul]

the song by ladytron is seventeen

[RasputinaMan]

good song too! really funny chorus I must add <3

[smokyandjuliet]

Does anyone know the name of the band where in their music vid, they are painting stripes on their faces and they are singing "Hypermediocrity"? (Yeah, I can't spell that word..lol)

[onio17]

its FischerSpooner

i dunno how did you spell it xD i cant even read this ;)

[CavemanSynthesizer]

It's dying in America cuz we purposefully kill anything original or counter-culture. The rave scene got killed, electro-clash got killed. The only way to become celebrated in America is to sell-out to the teenie-boppers and their slightly older siblings.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

it's not dying. it's thriving and going mainstream

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

lady gaga, lily allen, even pink is trying to be electro

[sysFail81]

Everything dies when reaches US maintream

[ne0nsurf]

In america it didn't get a chance to get started as a scene except in new york and some clubs on the west coast.

I don't know about the east coast but the west coast will always shun the new york gay side of it so it would never build momentum out here because of that.

you'd have to make it more of a party/beach/porn/girls with big tits type thing for it to catch on in the mainstream. I would fully supoport that but you need a few bands like that in each area to get a scene going.

[ne0nsurf]

the rave scene was big, mtv just didn't want any part of it. but i think electroclash is anti-rave and more pro 80s techno and new wave from everything i have scene.

electro-wave is newer, technowave, etc

[ne0nsurf]

and when i say a few bands, I don't mean and lame ass band like daft punk or clones of them.

[wizotch]

@ne0nsurf thats a bunch of bs angelspit is ov the genre and they dont pander to that at all. ur last statement is a cop out.

[ne0nsurf]

angelspit is worthless industrial bullshit. another dead genre.

[wizotch]

@ne0nsurf if it were dead no one would be doing it anymore

[crazycaz1234]

I love electroclash!haha

[verapamil07]

why rock history?

[danalope]

can someone tell me the name of that song right in yhe begining that goes like "tell me that you like it, uh uh, let me see the way you move a woman around". WAY COOL!

[moeboe84]

It's by "W.I.T" and it's called "Ooh, I like it".

[peruanosudamericano]

I really agree.

[paltita555]

what´s the nema of the first band ???

i need to know now !!!!

[melotroniko]

please, someone knows who is the girl with sunglasses in the video?! please, please!! thank you...

[l2p]

Dunno who she is, but the video is Vitalic's "My Friend Dario" video. It's up on Youtube.

[xenovolcano]

what is the name of the first (or maybe second) song on this clip? I need to know.

[mtfbmx]

I don't agree the slightest. Electroclash is basically just rip offs of old wavey stuff like Gina X etc. I cant see any similarity between Space Invaders and any Miss Kittin or the Hacker crap, nor David Caretta and his ilk which I wouldnt call electroclash anyway. Have you heard anything else by I-F like Quest, Holding your breath, Nothing else or I do because .. ? Pretty far from electroclash in any way.

God i'm hung over, cheers

[mtfbmx]

I-F has nothing to do with electroclash

[Kompressor0660]

what are you talking about mtfbmx? Have you actually heard space invaders are smoking grass? Protoelectroclash at its best.

[tetsuolumiere]

grate!