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From:
Ashok Divakaran
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Date:
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 17:44:39 +0000 (GMT)
Subject:
Re: Origins of techno (was City for (idm)?)
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quoted 23 lines ftodd@netcomuk.co.uk wrote:> ftodd@netcomuk.co.uk wrote: > > > > >R U kidding me??? Electronica seems to be more popular in Europe > > >these days... But don't forget where techno started. Derrick May > > >and Juan Atkins aren't European. > > > > sorry, never heard of Derrick May and Juan Atkins, when did they start > > making whatever music they made. > > Oooh, I don't know, let's say 1986. Boy, if you don't know who these > guys are, you really know nothing about the history of Techno. Don't > you understand the term "Detroit Techno?" There were two movements > going on at the time techno originated: Detroit and Germany. The two > had different flavors, both were techno. Both have had a big effect on > the music that IDMers are listening to today. > > > Intelligent Techno, Techno and Trance > > comes from Germany originally, House and Hardcore comes from the UK, > > There was _some_ intelligent techno I've heard out of germany, but a > whole lot of the _techno_ that originated from there was nosebleed > hardcore. House.. yeah, that was UK, but Hardcore was both UK and > Germany... ever heard the term "Rotterdam?"
- there wasn't any techno scene in Germany, other than Kraftwerk, at the time that Atkins and May got going, and "Electric Cafe" is arguably more stripped- down EBM than techno anyway - house originated in Chicago - Rotterdam is in the Netherlands