On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Philip Evans wrote:
quoted 25 lines At 6:28 PM 1/26/98, Peter Becker wrote:> At 6:28 PM 1/26/98, Peter Becker wrote:
> >I've been crusing the digests for a week now and I could'nt hold back on a
> >few things:
> >
> >a.
> >
> >Re: the "kids these days" rant with the Kraftwerk comment ( sorry, I can't
> >remember the context)
> >for the person whose post ended with something like " thus Tour de France"
> >should be restated "thus
> >ComputerWorld" as "Computerworld was released *years* before Tour de
> >France. If electro has roots (and
> >it certainly does) the roots dig the deepest to Computerworld, though Tour
> >de France is indeed another pinnacle of
> >electro inspiration.
> >
>
> Wouldn't it be even more accurate to postulate
>
> Computer World --> chopped up and looped by kids in the US --> Tour De
> France --> electro as we know it?
>
> Yes, the roots of electro go to Computer World, but Tour De France was a
> direct result of Kraftwerk's discovering what was being done with their
> earlier stuff. Or so they claim...
I'd say the geneology of electro passes from "Trance Europe Express" to
"Planet Rock", which was the first melding of synths & hip-hop to get
widespread play, and planted the seeds of Electro in a lot of peoples
minds.
Che