At 12.29 97-01-21 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 2 lines I'm assuming you mean Kraftwerk started techno. Kraftwerk isn't>I'm assuming you mean Kraftwerk started techno. Kraftwerk isn't
>"techno". They fit into the broad definition electronica.
I guess you've only heard their "The Mix" album then.
Dunno if someone even used the term "Techno" before Kraftwerk when they
in 1982 stated that their next album was to be called "Techno Pop". (This
same album was later released as "Electric Cafe" in 1986).
quoted 4 lines I'm not an expert by any means, but I'll try.>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.
Juan Atkins, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, living in Detroit, were
influenced by Kraftwerk and the cold european electronic music and started
making music in 1978, mixing the black dance-music culture with the
electronic european music.
The (somewhat) famous quote when May is to explain the music he's
playing: "as if George Clinton and Kraftwerk were stuck in an elevator
together with a sequencer as the only company" Something like that...
Try to convince me that May/Atkins were more important than Kraftwerk...:)
Kraftwerk started in 1968, influenced by the german (mad..;) avant-garde
composer Karlheinz Stockhausen during an improvisation course in Dusseldorf,
Germany.
They then starts to make music with radiosounds, electronic flutes,
tapemachines, organs and all kinda shit. First under the name of
Organization and the under Kraftwerk.
There has not been a more influencial group or artist in this genre (IDM,
Techno, whatever) than Kraftwerk.
Just listen to all 80s techno or Autechre (esp keynell rmxs n the sound of
machines) or even global goon. I tell you; Kraftwerk.
...or maybe Eric Satie invented ambient and that kinda music in 1888 in
Paris...
Who knows...? You believe what you want to believe.. I guess there are no
right nor wrongs, If you fancy May instead of Kraftwerk I guess it's kinda
obvious who you'd choose...
Personally I'd choose Kraftwerk, so take the whole thing with a pinch of salt.
quoted 2 lines ftodd, I thought you said you were leaving the list anyway. Our>ftodd, I thought you said you were leaving the list anyway. Our
>knowledge of electronica obviously doesn't reach the level of yours.
And please stop this shit! It's fuckin pathetic!
Everybody in the house if you're ready to rock then let me hear you scream!
And if you really came to party, then let me hear everybody.
Say; We can too party!
*grin*
Cher,
Franco the mad rocka.
NO RICHARD, WE'RE NOT OK!
I SPOKE TO THE FAT ONE TODAY.