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Sep 15, 2021 · Last updated: Sep 15, 2021 • 4 min read. In the 1980s, DJs with a background in hip-hop, funk, and disco began producing a new kind of dance music based around the Roland TR-808 drum machine. In doing so, they created a new genre known as electro, or electro-funk.
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Feb 16, 2003 · Electro-Funk was the prototype, and Hip-Hop, Techno, House, Jungle, Trip-Hop, Drum & Bass, UK Garage, plus countless other Dance derivatives, all owe their debts to its undoubted influence. Without it’s inspiration, it’s unlikely that British acts such as Coldcut, 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald, Soul To Soul, Massive Attack, The Prodigy ...
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- From Krautrock to Dub
- Popular Hits and Trip-Hop Beats
- Ever-Evolving Musical Genre
The first experiments with electronic sound generators took place as early as the mid-late 19th century and culminated in the development of electromechanical pianos that predate the electronic keyboard. One of the most famous early electronic instruments was the "etherophone," later called the "Theremin" after its inventor Leon Theremin. Developed...
In the postwar period, US composers such as John Cage and Steve Reichwere pushing the boundaries of electroacoustic music in America. Meanwhile in Europe, Karlheinz Stockhausen was pioneering electronic sound experiments using ring modulators and Hammond organs, among much else, in the Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne. In the 1970s, the torch...
Countless EDM subgenres — including acid house, drum'n'bass, dubstep, trance and two-step — defined a new worldwide rave culture in the 1990s. Meanwhile, downtempo dub beats and experimental soundscapes marked the new trip hop sound coming out of Bristol via bands like Massive Attack and Portishead — and from Austrian duo Kruder & Dorfmeister. Arou...
Back to Düsseldorf, where bands like Kraftwerk and Neu! made the city synonymous with early electronic music worldwide, "Electro. From Kraftwerk to Techno" is now paying tribute to the rise of a groundbreaking musical direction. The more than 500 exhibits at the Düsseldorf Kunstpalast include instruments, homemade sound generators, photographs, aud...
Sep 25, 2023 · James Brown radically changed his sound in 1965 to focus on a more hard driving rthymic beat - he called this sound Funk! If you like my channel and appreci...
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Some call it the early hip hop but for the most of us this playlist reflects the sound of Electro as it was once known - highly influenced and motivated by K...
Feb 17, 2024 · CHROMEO: (Singing) I don't need a new, ooh. Girl, I feel so taken by you. And I know I played myself one time or two, ooh. SIMON: Chromeo's latest album is called "Adult Contemporary." The duo ...
