But as you said earlier Chris, each team makes his own inclusion policies, or in other words - demands.

And you know what demands of Prog Electronic are.

She's exceptional and very talented. For me everything prog stands for, but I suppose she doesn't fit prog as defined on this site. I don't mind.  But for me, personally, she stands in a direct line to the old '70's prog heroes, even if her music is more "song" - based, so to say.

Dean wrote: AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: http://www.gepr.net/bandlist.html shes not listed here!     But she is here: http://www.progressiveears.com/asp/artistdir.asp?country=Iceland ... though not assigned to any subgenre.

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Logan wrote: Marty McFly wrote: Chris S wrote: Marty McFly wrote: But as you said earlier Chris, each team makes his own inclusion policies, or in other words - demands. And you know what demands of Prog Electronic are.   I think Marty we need to respect the demands of each Team and comment or discuss such issues within our own team threads if need be. The open forum is not the venue for such a thing.Thanks. I know that, but I'm not saying anything bad against Prog Electronic team, or Philippe, their leader. I'm just saying that from the look on charts, there is not so much Prog Electronic artists. There's really nothing bad about it and I'm not implying anything like that. I don't believe that Bjork would fit in well in the Progressive Electronic category even if she has Kosmische qualities/ influence.  I  think she'd be better for Crossover for her Art Pop music, but that's up to the teams, of course, to determine.

Indeed, that's possibility. I'm not that familiar with her work, so I would have to understand her work better before making any judgements. I just pointed out why not Prog Electronic.

Wiktor Hatif wrote: By the way, she has lately wrote the song promoting new movie based on Moomins book :) I must start a thread to find out if there are some other Moomin books' (not anime) fans around. :)

This is off topic, but I have a few of Tove Jansson's moomin books somewhere around the house, bought for my kids when they were younger.

The most obvious difficulty with her inclusion is that she's famous and selling millions though. Inclusions of artists with mainstream success, for one reason or another, tends to lead to outbreaks of extremely hostile and aggressive knee jerk reactions and prophecies of how this site is leaving prog and how the world now is about to go under and Armageddon to follow.

Cue Steely Dan, Journey, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Blue Oyster Cult - to name but a few such cases.

Marty McFly wrote: Logan wrote: Marty McFly wrote: Chris S wrote: Marty McFly wrote: But as you said earlier Chris, each team makes his own inclusion policies, or in other words - demands. And you know what demands of Prog Electronic are.   I think Marty we need to respect the demands of each Team and comment or discuss such issues within our own team threads if need be. The open forum is not the venue for such a thing.Thanks. I know that, but I'm not saying anything bad against Prog Electronic team, or Philippe, their leader. I'm just saying that from the look on charts, there is not so much Prog Electronic artists. There's really nothing bad about it and I'm not implying anything like that. I don't believe that Bjork would fit in well in the Progressive Electronic category even if she has Kosmische qualities/ influence.  I  think she'd be better for Crossover for her Art Pop music, but that's up to the teams, of course, to determine. Indeed, that's possibility. I'm not that familiar with her work, so I would have to understand her work better before making any judgements. I just pointed out why not Prog Electronic.

So we will add her to crossover for evaluation. Of course there are plenty xover attributes but personally I think she would sit perfectly under P/E. She would be controversial as Olav's last post pointed out, yet I cannot see why commercial success would be a negative influence in terms of perceptions. It is important to recognise that, yes, she could fit xover but only because her music fits the genre, not because she cannot gain acceptance elsewhere. Am I the only one around here thinking progressive electronic is the obvious choice?

harmonium.ro wrote: Robert Fripp is a fan of Kayne West, so I'd say that's not a decisive argument

808's and Heartbreaks is an excellent album

Marty McFly wrote: Windhawk wrote: Taking a brief checkup with the electronic team on this one. If the answer is as I surmise, she'll be on the Crossover charts for eval in a bit :-) We'll see. Most of you probably know her work, but so far, I discussed only theoretically, I don't know even one single song by her. What do people think that's her most Prog, Medulla ? And second ?

Homogenic Live is worth a listen, I think.