Hi Tech Soul - The Creation Of Techno Music (Part 1 of 9)

http://www.discogs.com/release/749334

Directed By Gary Bredow [2006]

Part 1 of 9

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Detroit
• Techno
• Juan
• Atkins
• Derrick
• May
• Kevin
• Saunderson
• Eddie
• Fowlkes

[atlantichouse]

kraftwerk pioneered dance floor electro - not Detroit. by the time Detroit got hold of the electro genre it had already been formatted by kraftwerk. Detroit didn't add some special africa mixture or inject soul into the sound to come up with 'techno', they simply imitated the sound ready made, off the shelf, boil in a bag style.

It is unfortunate that Detroit now seek to claim credit 4 other people efforts and shamefull that aparently intelligent people should not challenge this fabrication.

[exiledlarky]

@atlantichouse - despite clearly being pioneers they didn't really inject the funk though did they? that claim can firmly lie in chicago & detroit.

[EFKA526]

it is a global thing. without kraftwerk or tangerine dreams in the 70s, german electronic pioneers, black US hip hop culture, disco culture and the combination=Chicago House the techno stuff from detroit would not have been possible. The different scenes influence each other, always have, and always will. Electronic music is one of the few really global styles of art. It does not matter where you come from if you make decent danceable tunes!

[djimpossible]

JUAN ATKINS CREATIED TECHNO PERIOD

[bumpyjason]

May is actually in his 50s now and just does not age!

[bumpyjason]

i speak to derrick online sometimes, i go like a stupid little kid and forget what i want to ask him, he's very cool guy and very down to earth.

[DjDedan]

@atlantichouse 1972 stevie wonder made Music of My Mind which featured TONTO an early synthesizer, Marvin Gaye also experimented with Synths in the late 60's early 70's... Kraftwerk were not the only ones making electronic music nor did they invent it. we can also argue the type of music kraftwerk played would not have exist with out american artist like james brown... but what would be the point. I'm sure these artist give credit to kraftwerk, telex and who ever else deserves it.

[Gaiacarra]

I can't make head nor tail of this documentary. I watched half of it last night and felt like I walked away having learned nothing. What the hell is going on? What is everyone talking about even?

[skynett1000]

if there was no kraftwerk or telex there would be no detroit tecnho

[detroitologist]

Techno is like an occupation or a way of life in Detroit. People work all week and that is what they look forward to when the weekend comes. Elsewhere people go boating or heading to the beach or up to the mountains to ski... In Detroit people go to parties. It is not just a style of music... a 4/4 beat, voice samples, and loops. That is what commercial music is. Techno is one of the ways that people use to "place" themselves on earth... like "I am from Detroit!"

[detroitologist]

Regarding techno and Detroit, if you are from Detroit you associate the city with techno, though it is probably not your thing. If someone asked me what I was into I'd tell them techno and they would think of techno parties in abandoned warehouses, not just of club music from the radio or television. People are aware that something is happening in the inner city late at night. They know that techno is big.

[detroitologist]

Karl Benz is really the inventor of the modern automobile, but without the invention of the wheel he would have been nothing. The debate about electronic music would be the same... it is just a continuation of music. Rather than use a guitar and a drum set people used modern technology like drum computers and synths. People in Detroit and Chicago, specifically, did something to electronic music that was profound, otherwise, we would not be having the never ending debate over the rights to techno

[atlantichouse]

@DuaneDeterville all i can say is youtube; tom dissevelt and kid baltans sycopation.

all this dumb arse afrocentric view of the history of music gives me a fucking migraine..