Techno wiki page

[davethedrummer]

I see these threads and it's like stating hip hop did not start in the Bronx.

which of course it didn't
it started in leeds

[The_Laughing_Man]

I see these threads and it's like stating hip hop did not start in the Bronx.

People had been talking like children in rhyming sentences for years, the bronx can`t claim anything.
Credit should go to wordsworth

[josephjobling]

thanks guys there's alot for me to reaserch and get my teath into - i'll be spending time on google and youtube looking at all the above. Thanx

[Technologic]

probably the bets article i've read about techno...

http://www.electronicdancemusic.org/...by-jon-savage/

[Loop]

theres always so much left out when it comes to defining a term, techno as a defined genre most defiantly came from Detroit, but only as a redefinition of other styles. Nothing they did was overwhelming unique, check out cybotron and tell me it don't sound like Kraftwerk, then theres e2 e4, the french disco underground, house, blah blah blah. It goes on. what the detroit guys did was be exactly in the right place at the right time, ie the M25 orbital circa 1988.

[SlavikSvensk]

cybotron sounds heavily influenced by kraftwerk, but not like kraftwerk. and besides, cybotron is also just the first techno record, much like sugar hill gang was the first hip-hop...not exactly the sound at its most complex (even though it's still great).

of course all music is evolutionary. nothing is completely original, and there are always antecedents for everything. the detroit guys were always quite aware of this...derrick may called techno "kraftwerk and george clinton stuck in an elevator," after all. and you can take either of these artists and say that they were so and so and so and so stuck in an elevator. kraftwerk--who were enormously innovative--are kind of like neu and early jean-michel jarre stuck in an elevator.

what the detroit guys did--and what kraftwerk did before them--was mold these influences into a coherent and different new form.

[DannyBlack]

Leeds? I thought it was started in Oldham? In "The pie an ferret breaders Arms".

maybe i'm thinking of trip hop.