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the people you mentioned are mostly ambient type artists.. how did they influence dance genres?? electro, trance, house, DnB???? Kraftwerk is the group that almost everyone will say started electronic dance music... ----- Original Message ----- From: ersatz-noddy To: idm list Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 5:41 AM Subject: Re: [idm] Re: @WL Re: [idm] Derrick May invented IDM? Ok, and let us not forget Eno/Michael Rother/Neu!/Moebius/Roedelius (Cluster), Connie Plank, and other German Prog-gies. I find a lot of their material has aged better and holds up a little more strongly than Kraftwerk as a pre-cursor, who seem to be--to me anyway--rather dreary and overly-pretentious. Anyone who caught their tour/side show last year might agree--they are too easy to parody; in fact, they're doing it themselves. The Tour De France Soundtracks make me think of hampsters running on wheels. Harmonia's "Tracks and Traces" is a truer grandaddy of "Geogaddi" than "Autobahn" (and most certainly "Electric Cafe" ;) just my 2 cents, m* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ www.ersatzdesign.com On Feb 28, 2005, at 7:15 AM, Greg Hill wrote: yes, Kraftwerk the innovators in ALL forms of electronic music..much respect! ----- Original Message ----- From: "theREALmxyzptlk" <theREALmxyzptlk@comcast.net> To: "Greg Hill" <cameron69@comcast.net> Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 3:57 PM Subject: @WL Re: [idm] Derrick May invented IDM? Greg Hill wrote: why doesn't anyone ever mention electro funk as an influence? that's where techno came from...then house, IDM, trance...pretty much all forms of 'dance' music... There's some truth to that, but electro-funk has it's start as well. That whole Arthur Baker/John Robie NYC thing was all mixed up with the Cabs and Brits as well - but where would they have been without Kraftwerk? jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org