Its not electro, its chiptune. Chiptune is a genre that consists of anything using 2, 8, 16 bit sound as its primary sound. And its very broad, ranging from classical, deathmetal, and of course the kinds of little tunes you'd hear when playing a NES game. The primary community of artists that produce these works center around the Creative Commons license, and general good will towards their fellow artists. And if you have an ounce of respect for the genre, or for ensuring that artists get their due, you should boycott Crystal Castles. The argument as to why? Read this [http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/05/05/chiptune-music-theft-continues-crystal-castles-abuses-creative-commons-license/] article.
That being said, a lot of my favorite lyric-free works are chiptune. I especially love Fell Plot [http://www.iimusic.net/catalog/2009/11/zan-zan-zawa-veia-fell-plot] and most of the pause library...
And anything Disasterpeace [http://www.disasterpeace.com/].
I like Royksopp, which is more often non vocal, but still is one of the few groups who do use lyrics that don't annoy me.
Its not electro, its chiptune. Chiptune is a genre that consists of anything using 2, 8, 16 bit sound as its primary sound. And its very broad, ranging from classical, deathmetal, and of course the kinds of little tunes you'd hear when playing a NES game. The primary community of artists that produce these works center around the Creative Commons license, and general good will towards their fellow artists. And if you have an ounce of respect for the genre, or for ensuring that artists get their due, you should boycott Crystal Castles. The argument as to why? Read this [http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/05/05/chiptune-music-theft-continues-crystal-castles-abuses-creative-commons-license/] article.
You're right it I should have said chiptune. However this whole "CC rips artists off!" thing pisses me off so much, infact now it's just disapointing whenever I see it. Something people see to be missing that's right infront of their faces is that it was an unreleased track! Theres a reason why it's unreleased, because Ethan couldn't get copyright so didn't put it on the album. If the song happens to be leaked online or posted on myspace then it's not the band's fault, it's the label's surely.
Ethan Kath says in this in an interview: http://sparksvsspace.blogspot.com/2007/06/3-newer-cc-remixes.html
"Actually, there's a lot of tracks that will be left off the album because we can't find the copyright owners of the samples. She Fell Off will be left off because of this. Same with Insecticon. Which is a shame because I love those songs. "
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