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Dec 28, 2023 · Who are some of the most influential electronic music pioneers? There are plenty to choose from, and a bunch got their start in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Groups like Kraftwerk, New Order, Daft Punk, and Depeche Mode are considered some of the greatest electronic music bands of all time.
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Aug 22, 2023 · Electronic music pioneers like Robert Moog and Brian Eno revolutionized the way music was created, introducing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of sound. The emergence of Detroit techno in the 1980s laid the foundation for the development of other electronic music genres.
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- Hip Hop
- Disco
- The 1980s
- There Was No Turning Back
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- The Truth About “EDM”
To locate the origins of electronic dance music, we’d need to go as far back as the 1960s, considered one of the great decades of rock music. The sixties gave birth to iconic bands such as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, but it was The Beatles who occupied the musical throne and would have such a huge influence on the way music was produced. The Beatl...
Hip Hop has to be credited as having a heavy influence on electronic music from the 1970s. The genre rose up from an economic crisis in New York, at a time when the manufacturing industry was in freefall and opportunities in the music industry were in short supply. The discotheques and clubs began to close as the funds for entertainment evaporated,...
Disco was a huge genre emerging in the early seventies on the US East Coast, where artists took advantage of the new electronic music technology being brought to the market. American group Sly and the Family Stone perhaps predicted the disco sound in 1971 with their hit ‘Family Affair’, which incorporated one of the early drum machines on the marke...
The 1980s are considered by some as the decade which saw the most significant rise of electronic dance music – and the evolution of its sound. Genres that are still thriving today such as house and techno are a product of the eighties club scene. Thanks to manufacturers like Roland, new electronic instruments helped mould the direction of electroni...
As we jump into the early 1990s, the rave scene in the UK and Germany shaped the emergence of Trance music. Originating in Germany, trance quickly flooded dancefloors throughout the rest of Europe in places like Belgium and the Netherlands, and even collected a serious following on the West Indian coastline of Goa. Numerous subgenres like Progressi...
The US started to take a greater interest in electronic music culture again in the late 2000s, as French electronic music duo Justicereleased their album ‘Cross’in 2007. With the help of synthesizers, the band produced music influenced by rock and indie, which began to resonate with the US crowd due to its familiar format of a rock performance. ‘El...
Between 2010 and the present day, the term EDM has monopolized the dance music market, although it shouldn’t be used as a term to describe ALLelectronic dance music genres — as it often is! EDM is technically a genre of its own under the broader electronic music umbrella, rather than being an umbrella term itself. In a Q&A with musicweek.comin 2019...
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A brief history of early electronic music pioneers - from Luigi Russolo and his noise generating machines in the early 20th century to Karlheinz Stockhausen's 1950s electronic compositions and...
Jul 6, 2017 · Pioneers of Power: the birth of electronic music Philip Clark Thursday, July 6, 2017 For composers from Stockhausen to Skelton, electronic music has provided an opportunity to explore the emotional interior of exterior sounds, argues Philip Clark. Pierre Henry (STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/GETTY IMAGES)
Dec 13, 2021 · From early sound experiments to dub, Krautrock and techno, electronic music has a long musical lineage that is now being celebrated in one of the genre's birthplaces, Düsseldorf.
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Jul 17, 2021 · By pre-empting the rise of 80s club culture and 90s rave music, the combined talents of Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider, Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flür birthed many sonic forebears, their radical prescience influencing pretty much every stripe of electronic dance music under the sun. Here’s how Kraftwerk forever changed the course of music as ...
