Electronica

Electronica is an umbrella term that encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, drum and bass, jungle, and industrial dance, among others. It has been used to describe the rise of electronic music styles intended not just for dancing but also concentrated listening.

Regional definitions

In North America, in the late 1990s, the mainstream music industry adopted and to some extent manufactured electronica as an umbrella term encompassing styles such as techno, big beat, drum and bass, trip hop, downtempo, and ambient, regardless of whether it was curated by indie labels catering to the "underground" nightclub and rave scenes, or licensed by major labels and marketed to mainstream audiences as a commercially viable alternative to alternative rock music. By the late 2000s, however, the industry abandoned electronica in favor of electronic dance music (EDM), a term with roots in academia and an increasing association with outdoor music festivals and relatively mainstream, post-rave electro house and dubstep music. Nevertheless, the U.S.-based AllMusic still categorises electronica as a top-level genre, stating that it includes danceable grooves, as well as music for headphones and chillout areas.

Electronica (trade fair)

electronica is a trade fair for the electronics industry. The exhibitors who participate in it present electronic components, systems, applications and services.

About the fair

Organized by Messe München, electronica has been held at the Messe München trade-fair center every other year in November (alternating with productronica) since 1964. In 2014, electronica took place from November 11 – 14.
With 135,000 m² of gross exhibition space, 2,725 exhibitors from 50 countries and 73,000 visitors (figures from 2014), electronica is one of the largest trade fairs in Munich and a leading international trade fair for the electronics industry. The share of trade visitors at electronica is 99 percent. The next electronica takes place in Munich from November 8 – 11, 2016.
The trade fair addresses international manufacturers and service providers, specialized in the development, quality control, repair and maintenance of electronic assemblies, equipment and machines. Accordingly the fair’s visitors are electronic and software developers, designers of electronic circuits and products as well as executives and employees in sales, procurement and research & development.
electronica’s interdisciplinary exhibition themes are reflected in the fair’s breakdown of exhibits according to halls:

Electronika 60

The Electronika 60 (Russian: Электроника 60) was a terminal computer made in the Soviet Union by Electronika in Voronezh. It was a clone of an LSI-11 (made by the Digital Equipment Corporation).

The Electronika 60 CPU was a rack-mount unit that served as a part of computing complex also comprising a 15IE-00-013 terminal and I/O devices. The main logic unit is located on the M2 CPU board.

M2 CPU Technical Characteristics:

Word length: 16 bit

Address space: 32K-words (64KB)

RAM size: 4K-words (8KB)

Number of instructions: 81

Performance speed: 250,000 operations per second

Floating point capacity: 32 bit

Number of VLSI chips: 5

Board dimensions: 240 × 280mm

The original implementation of Tetris was written for the Electronika 60 by Alexey Pajitnov. As the Elektra 60 has no graphics capability, text was used to form the blocks.

References

External links

Article about Electronika-60 in Russian

Images of the Electronika 60M

Archive software and documentation for Soviet computers UK-NC, DVK and BK0010.

Jay Electronica

Voodooman, chickenbone chickenbone
I can make a thunderstorm from a light rain
My ears start ringing
My nose get bloody
I feel a lil' bit of pressure on my right brain
Intermission transmission
Put me in submission
Glistening trapped in a light prison whistling
Then christ told me come closer to the light man
I went blind woke up infront of a mic stand
Voodoo man, tap-dancing in the French Quarter
Walking on water with a scroll in my hand
The bluerprints for disc shape like a vessel
That was chiselled out of metal off the coast of Japan
Fastened on the top of a mountain I went to postland
Saw a shiny object floating out of the ocean
I'm sort of like a postman
You can get the message if you want to understand
From the raps of the man
Voodoman, civilize the savage
Criticize the parish
Spreading false doctrine
terrorise the cleric
for carrying on nonsense
specialised lies to paralyse the conscience
Voodoman
Chit chatter
Abra cadabra
Spitting out matter
While i'm shitting out data
Hmm, chew em up shitting out rappers
Sipping Pelegrino while i'm giving out matches
Set yourself on fire
Let the wisdom of Elijah
Purify yah take your nigga higher
Sold your soul to the highest buyer
Now you're on a wire
You talking about 2-foot tires
Saying you sell crack
Clapping at cats with Macs
But you are liar
Pants on fire
Same old rugged cross

Electronica

Regional definitions

Electronica (trade fair)

About the fair

Electronika 60

References

External links

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