Universal Techno Pt.2 - Kevin Saunderson & Derrick May

Excerpts from 1996 French documentary Universal Techno featuring Kevin Saunderson and Derrick May

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Music

Tags:

• juan
• atkins
• kevin
• saunderson
• derrick
• may
• jeff
• mills
• cybotron
• detroit
• techno
• mojo
• kraftwerk
• electro
• dj

[luroh]

like it dark .. deep

[donotseemecricket]

@atlantichouse man, that is your opnion, and it isn't one shared by most of the people in the electronic music world. if you believe that, well so be it. but whining about it on youtube isn't going to change the fact that just about anyone who listens to it will consider techno a genre that was formed in Detroit. you should stop hating, shut the fuck up and DANCE!

[Disquoo]

i think derrick may is talking a bit a shite in this

[kennyconga]

juan atkins coined the term techno to describe a style of music. that's why people say techno was invented in detroit. just like house music. similar things were going on in both new york and chicago at the same time, but the word house was coined in chicago.

europeans heavily influenced techno and house in its early stages. that is a fact. kraftwerk being a perfect example. we can also talk about italo disco records like capricorn and i'm hungry. what about e2 e4?

[tecnoladave]

"techno" the first time is as the name to a certain type of music was used for a sound that was created in detroit was a melding of electronic kraftwerk inspired sounds and funky soul parliament inspired sounds. what came out of those two was something totally new.

[tecnoladave]

you couldnt be more wrong. all of those european artists were influential to many people including these guys and they have been very vocal about it. techno now has become a broad term for edm and i think you may be blurring the lines a bit. when a group of guys influenced by parliment and kraftwerk set out to make something new...music melding those things together. and the did it. that was the music that was first called techno.

[atlantichouse]

@COMISQUI123 or try out: Tom dissevelt & kid baltan - syncopation

another pioneer creating electro/techno years before detroit got anywhere near it.

[atlantichouse]

@COMISQUI123 or perhaps you tube raymond scott - base line generator.

It is these artist's who are the true creators of 'Techno' and not Detroit - as you all have been lead to believe.

[atlantichouse]

@COMISQUI123 i'm taking about the source of the genre - how and where it began (which predates Detroit) I'm not talking about the sub-generalizations that came later. This new electronic genre was in existance before detroit began to imitate the sound. Detroit are kidding themselves if they believe that it was they who found this new beat. Detroit copied the sound of Kraftwerk - which was being played all over the radio at the time.

Imitation not innovation!

youtube: raymond scott IBM probe

[wayneulmer]

I just wanted to point out that I think it's VERY MISLEADING to play Kraftwerk's 1991 mix of "The Robots" in the film and display it as released in 1978.

[COMISQUI123]

@atlantichouse echno is electro by another name. what that fuck are u talking about , u don't even know how electronic music is sub generalized