๐ŸŽผ Techno๏ƒ

Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) that is predominantly characterized by a repetitive and hard four on the floor beat which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set. The central rhythm is often in common time (4/4), while the tempo typically varies between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). Artists may use electronic instruments such as drum machines, sequencers, and synthesizers, as well as digital audio workstations. Drum machines from the 1980s such as Rolandโ€™s TR-808 and TR- 909 are highly prized, and software emulations of such retro instruments are popular.

Use of the term โ€œtechnoโ€ to refer to a type of electronic music originated in Germany in the early 1980s. In 1988, following the UK release of the compilation Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit, the term came to be associated with a form of electronic dance music produced in Detroit. Detroit techno resulted from the melding of synthpop by artists such as Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Yellow Magic Orchestra with African American styles such as house, electro, and funk. Added to this is the influence of futuristic and science-fiction themes relevant to life in American late capitalist society, with Alvin Tofflerโ€™s book The Third Wave a notable point of reference. The music produced in the mid to late 1980s by Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson (collectively known as the Belleville Three), along with Eddie Fowlkes, Blake Baxter, James Pennington and others is viewed as the first wave of techno from Detroit.

After the success of house music in a number of European countries, techno grew in popularity in the UK, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In Europe regional variants quickly evolved and by the early 1990s techno subgenres such as acid, hardcore, ambient, and dub techno had developed. Music journalists and fans of techno are generally selective in their use of the term; so a clear distinction can be made between sometimes related but often qualitatively different styles, such as tech house and trance.

Techno also responded to the house becoming mainstream: while most clubs played house, techno or acid trance was played at free parties, with the exception of chill-out room ambient, triphop, drum & bass. Of course, this style also yielded its own successors: Carl Cox, who works with three turntables, Laurent Garnier of France, Joey Beltram of New York, the Orbit, or Dave Clarke. The most exciting drive of the style is the minimal, streamlined sounds, the ecstatic stream music of the repetitive rhythms unfolding like a snail. Its main representatives are Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman), Maurizio (from Berlin), Robert Hood (from Detroit). But the rest of Detroit also likes to excel at a minimum, such as Mad Mike (the soul and lifeblood of Underground Resistance), Kenny Larkin, or Season Deason.

Some formations tried to marry the techno with the pop. The experiment proved successful and is still fantastically profitable. For them, the first gates of America were opened: Prodigy, Underworld, Daft Punk โ€ฆ

[Prodigy (Metal.hu)] [Underworld (IMDb)] [Daft Punk (Discogs)]

You can find more details about its formation and development on Ishkurโ€™s Guide to Electronic Music, and you can listen to techno music right away. https://music.ishkur.com/?query=DetroitTechno

The Every Noise at Once platform provides an opportunity for people to get to know better the names of the creators who have ever been in the genre and thus the peculiarities of it. https://everynoise.com/everynoise1d.cgi?root=techno&scope=all

Sources :

  • MENNYEK KAPUI - Az elektroniks zene รฉvtizede (The decade of electronic music)

  • Wikipedia

  • Ishkurโ€™s Guide to Electronic Music

  • Every Noise at Once

About the Author๏ƒ

โ€œGuido F. Matis (a.k.a. widosub), a seasoned producer-composer authority with an unquenchable compassion towards the musical expression, and many years of experience in the fields of event organizing, movie post-production, and recording with professional musicians. His devotion to movie sounds shows in his art - widosubโ€™s music is filled with landscapes of emotions, dramatic twists and melancholic moods. Heโ€™s one of the hosts of Tilos Rรกdiรณโ€™s MustBeat show, in which heโ€™s is focusing on drumโ€™nโ€™bass and chillout music. Heโ€™s also one half of the duo Empty Universe.โ€