high tech soul - the creation of techno music

[SlavikSvensk]

saying it sounds "just like kraftwerk" is missing the point. it sounds heavily influenced by kraftwerk, but it also sounds like all the other things atkins and davis were listening to: moroder, human league, neu, p-funk, etc. as well as kraftwerk.

all of those were vital to the creation and evolution of techno. but none of those were the first releases OF techno. this is musicology 101: you might say kraftwerk were, and are, techno's godfathers, or that techno is kraftwerk's spiritual descendent...but cybotron was the first techno group, responsible for the first releases of the musical style, from the musical scene, for which the term techno emerged to describe.

[teknorich]

In early Drum & Bass, the "Reese" bassline was a massive part of things, and it comes from Kevin "Reese" Saunderson:

Renegade feat. Ray Keith's Terrorist sample of Reese's Just Want Another Chance | WhoSampled

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The artists who created Drum & Bass were clearly heavily influenced by Kevin Saunderson's House/Techno basslines, and twisted, adapted, developed them into their new sound, but does that mean that Kevin Saunderson invented Drum & Bass? Nope!

Any new genre comes about from artists being influenced by music which already exists, and then changing it, morphing it, adding their own sounds, elements and styles to it until a new creature is born. In the same way that Saunderson clearly influenced the development of Drum & bass and it's signature bassline sounds, but did not invent the genre himself, Kraftwerk clearly influenced Techno artists, but did not invent Techno themselves.

[Honeey]

thanks Teknorich for the information on the reese bassline! Kevin "Reese" Saunderson that's awesome. drum and bass is my second love to techno it's good to know the connections :)