Tonight’s IHeartComix screening of The Electro Wars at LA’s retro-fabulous Vista Theater brought back a whole lot of memories from the salad days of 2007-2008, when it seemed the fierce and fuzzy club music known as electro was taking over the world. But it wasn’t all reflection and nostalgia. Here’s a few things we learned (or remembered) from watching the film.
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Learned :: Young People Call 4/4 Electro Beats “Hip-Hop”
At least according to legendary turntablist Q-Bert who tells the story of asking his 19-year-old niece about some music he hears on the radio, only for her to reply with this surprising miscatergorization. Electro Wars addressed such genre-name confusion, including the recycling of the word “electro” itself.
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