ftodd claimed:
quoted 6 lines sorry, never heard of Derrick May and Juan Atkins, when did they start
> sorry, never heard of Derrick May and Juan Atkins, when did they start
> making whatever music they made. Intelligent Techno, Techno and Trance
> comes from Germany originally, House and Hardcore comes from the UK,
> I'll grant the Americans with Garage ie. House with a disco flavour,
> but that's it.
>
I'm assuming you mean Kraftwerk started techno. Kraftwerk isn't
"techno". They fit into the broad definition electronica.
I'm not an expert by any means, but I'll try.
Juan Atkins and Derrick May are the boys who started piddling around
in their bedrooms in the early in 80's in Detroit. This was the
first techno. House music mutated out of the early techno in Chicago.
Techno became much more popular in Europe then it did in the US in
the late 80's and early 90's and artists their were much more
influencial during this period.
People, please correct any historical inaccuracies. And in no way
should this be taken as a "US v. Europe" argument.
ftodd, I thought you said you were leaving the list anyway. Our
knowledge of electronica obviously doesn't reach the level of yours.
Brian
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