ABSTRACT

The author presents a cultural history of popular Viennese electronic music from 1990 to 2015, from the perspectives of production, scene and national and international reception. To illustrate this history in depth, a number of case studies of the most successful and distinguished musicians are explored, such as Kruder and Dorfmeister, Patrick Pulsinger, Tosca, Electric Indigo and Sofa Surfers. The author draws on research about electronic music, the relationship between music and the urban environment, the history of Austria and Vienna, music scenes and fandom, the digital shift , stardom in popular music (especially electronic music), as well as theories of postmodernism.

Chapters 4 and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Putting Viennese electronic music on the map

part I|31 pages

chapter 1|29 pages

Vienna, the city of music

From Mozart to Conchita Wurst

part II|34 pages

chapter 2|32 pages

Vienna Electronica as scene and industry

Between cultivated provincialism and cosmopolitanism

part III|134 pages

chapter 4|18 pages

Kruder and Dorfmeister

The studio(us) remixers

chapter 5|17 pages

The cool ambience of Tosca

chapter 6|17 pages

Sofa Surfers

Surfing and post-rocking

chapter 7|18 pages

Patrick Pulsinger

The happy techno kid

chapter 8|27 pages

Peter Rehberg, Christian Fennesz and the Label Mego

Between Glitch and Bécs

chapter 9|20 pages

Women in a mixed world

Electric Indigo and Sweet Susie

chapter |4 pages

Conclusions