ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author looks at popular electronic music in Vienna from a bird's-eye perspective, as a nucleus around which a specific scene emerged. She interested in its history and its main characteristics. The very terms Vienna Electronica or Vienna Sound were treated with scepticism, barely reflecting what they themselves saw as a heterogeneous and fragmented scene. The heterogeneity and fragmentation also concern the sound. Together with Rodney Hunter, Werner Geier also ran the record label Uptight, as previously mentioned. He was also an unofficial archivist of Vienna electronica, collecting records and other artefacts documenting the development of the scene. Scenes can be local, translocal and global, but typically they have to be local first, to get international and global recognition. Globally, the 1990s, which can be described as a 'decade of a CD', was a very good period for what is regarded as a privileged sector of music industry – the recording industry.
