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- From: elana@agora.rain.com (Elana Beach)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.newage
- Subject: Re: New Age: NOT! Contemporary Instrumental: YES! + E-music
- Message-ID: <C030q4.1yJ@agora.rain.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:03:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: agora.C030q4.1yJ
- References: <Bzvr33.5MJ@agora.rain.com> <1992Dec27.094124.14493@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1992Dec27.223807.19853@cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
- Organization: Open Communications Forum
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- In article <1992Dec27.223807.19853@cs.kuleuven.ac.be> vwulpen@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Henk Van Wulpen) writes:
- >
- >Some years ago, I heard someone on the radio use the term 'Esotronic
- >Music'. Although it is definitely not a good replacement for 'New
- >Age', it certainly fits for a lot of music that is usually labelled
- >under New Age (e.g. the early Tangerine Dream albums, Klaus Schulze,
- >Robert Schroeder,... ) simply because it is such weird music that it
- >doesn't seem to fit anywhere.e
- >
- >-Henk.
-
- Say WHAT?
- WHERE did you here this term being used? What radio station?
-
- "Esotronic" was a short-lived term that had it's beginnings in the early
- pages of DREAMS WORD. There was a name discussion in DW, and "Esotronic"
- originated there. It eventually got nixed when the term "E-music" got
- a more favorable response from the E. Dreams membership.
-
- > Of course, the word 'esotronic" already suggests that the music is
- > electronic only
-
- That was part of the whole point. Still is.
-
- E.
-