Music

Music is a conception on its own, creating a mind frame of diversified reasoning, notions and expressions. Music can also be a ‘moral law' as Plato had once quoted. He believed that music gave ‘soul to the universe. wings to the mind, flight to the imagination'. His thoughts were justified in the true sense that music was an unbound spirit, giving us ‘wings' to fly upon and halting onto territories we may call our imagination. Just like Plato, individuals across the world comprehended and interpreted music from their own personal perspective. Nonetheless, music has attained and created a timeless aura of unity; a unity between cultures, an appreciation between societies and recognition amongst different races.

Throughout the centuries, music has evolved, developed and created many different genres. These different genres of music have helped to cater to the various tastes and preferences of music lovers. At the turn of the 20th century, music seemed to be expressed at a different level. There was more liberty and freedom to create music since technology was at its peak. Thus, all sorts of genres were dealt with since recordings and the use of electronic instruments were simple and less complicated. During the mid-20th century, the usage of electronic instruments and the synthesizer defined music on a totally different note. A revolution had taken place before it was even known, and music was accelerating from all possible aspects. There was a movement in the 20th century known as ‘new music'. This can be explained as music dealing with electronic music, religious music and progressive rock and similar beliefs ‘of changing the world in peaceful ways'. There were many 20th century artists who managed to create history by inventing music which was a creativity of unique taste. Genres such as heavy metal, punk rock, disco, soul, salsa, hip-hop jazz, progressive rock and rock and roll were all experimented during this century.

Artists belonging to this century and genre were the Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Moby and Fatboy Slim. The Chemical Brothers were also a UK based band which focused upon genres such as Big beat, house, trip hop, electronic music. The band consisted of a duo with Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons together who won the Grammy for electronic music. Another such band in line with this music was The Crystal Method. They were an American electronic music duo consisting of Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland. Their genre consisted of Electronica, Big Beat, Breakbeat, Dance, Electronic Rock. Their 2005 studio album ‘Legion of Boom' was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Electronic Music/Dance Album". Fatboy Slim another contemporary working in the same line was as popular as the above mentioned artists. He is also known as Norman Cook, who was an English big beat musician. His music was focused upon Electronic, Big beat, Trip-hop, Dance.

Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy, Crystal Method and The Chemical Brothers were known as the pioneers of the big beat electronic dance genre, and are recognized for high-quality live sets. Their music was also known as ‘Big Beat' or ‘Chemical breaks', a term applied by the British music press. Amazing as history sets it, these artists were from different parts of the world, residing in different locations and societies yet grasping the same genre and extending it towards a music adorned world.

Electronic music was a popular domain for these artists. They used electronic music instruments such as synthesizer, electric guitar to express music. At a point in history, electronic music was any music produced through electronic musical instruments or electronic processing. But in modern times, everything is done electronically thus, that concept had slowly faded away. 20th century electronic music simply describes music which uses electronics as its central aspect