Hmm

[venta]

I bought the new Neuroticfish album at Whitby (having read all about it in Meltdown, which makes it all mrph's fault somehow :). Despite repeated claims on the part of Neuroticfish that "EBM is dead", he appears to have made an EBM album. Do you think we should tell him?

Oh, and I really must change the tape in the car. Fond though I am of The Head on the Door and Trompe le Monde, they've been round too many times. And I'm going to be humming the outro of Alec Eiffel all day again.

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[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah. It's entirely possible that I mean entirely the wrong thing by EBM - I use it to describe the poppier end of things bleepy. Covenant, for example.

I was surprised at how many of the Neuroticfish songs sounded familiar - he must get more play in clubs than I thought.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

...and Covenant were so annoyed by being called synthpop/EBM/industrial etc, that iirc they (together with VNV Nation) came up with a new label, "Futurepop", to describe their sound.

Just call it all "bleepy stuff", and then there'll be no argument. :)

And yep, I think Neuroticfish has been getting quite a lot of play. Especially Velocity...

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

lanfykins once played me something that she called EBM. I think I described it as "bog standard Euro-disco but with a vocalist who took a wrong turn on the way to a Sisters of Mercy gig".

Does that describe the genre in general, or was this example unrepresentative?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'd say that's a well-recognised and clearly-defined subset of EBM, yes.

I didn't say the genre didn't include a bunch of bobbins :)

(Neuroticfish is available on my hard drive/as a CD for listening (yes, yes, I know you haven't got a soundcard) if you're interested. I'm not sure yet to what extent I'd recommend it).