| ▲ | mickeyp 9 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
Yeesh. "Those darn 40+-something millennials and their differing tastes!" Rock 'died' because it's been around for 50 years; were the favourite of boomers who ensured it always had air-time; and now they're out to pasture and other music styles reign. My dad was a pro drummer in the 70s and hated everything that wasn't rock or metal. He was incapable of appreciating anything else. Or so he said. As a kid of the 90s, I could never quite find music that fit me. Sure, I liked some rock and roll, pop, and so on --- but when I was first introduced to techno (Antiloop - Believe, to be specific) at a LAN party I knew I'd found my home: techno and then trance. But good luck finding Antiloop or the nascent trance on MTV or commercial radio in the 90s. The people who ran those things didn't like it, know about it, listen to it, or felt it had commercial value. So I had to learn about it from randos at a LAN party. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | redwall_hp 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Rock was on the way out in the early 80s, when millennials were barely being born...because disco won. The 80s were the rise of synthpop, House music (which started from DJs sampling disco a cappellas and mixing them with TR-909 drums and Korg M1 keyboards), Techno and Italo Disco. From there, we got the next evolution, in the form of Eurodance/Eurobeat/Hi-NRG, and Electronic Dance Music as a genre was born. Notably, they all still largely lean in on the foundational traits of Disco: four on the floor drum beats, off-beat bass, heavy focus on syncopation to create groove, chord stabs, etc.. The 80s were also the rise of hip hop and rap, which also grew out of the same DJ culture. If a song doesn't have a four on the floor beat, it's more likely to have a hip hop beat than a rock "backbeat." (e.g. boom bam boom boom bam, like "Rump Shaker" by Wreckx-N-Effect) | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | AfterHIA 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Canonical rock n' roll in the minds of, "the initiated" might include groups like Kraftwerk and Neu! which laid the foundation for most forms of electronic music. It definitely includes the mother of all electronic music Delia Derbyshire (ask Peter Kember!) You might know her from the original Doctor Who theme music. Dig the link below for the arguably the first EDM song ever made. Keep in mind this is pre-synths-- it's all tape manipulation like The Beatles would end up copying on, "Strawberry Fields Forever." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwQIgGQLOQ8 I like all, "genres" and types of music but there's a certain high level of quality that exists in a continuum of music going back a long time. It's hard to define in a formal way. It's there in John Coltrane. It lives sophomorically in The Velvet Underground, Herman's Hermits, and the other, "Bubblegum" groups as well as the Fuzz-Psych-Garage bands that live in the Nuggets compilations like ? And The Mysterians. It's played on Rickenbacker guitars. It has a fuzz pedal and it knows how to use it. It lived on John Peel's radio program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62XRy-jFCm8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQdo8efJtSs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ToJ2mmlkiE A special one for you the techno fan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndpi8tNZyQ Cheerio. EDIT: Worth noting I'm 34 so don't give me the Grandpa treatment. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | lomase 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
In Europe MTV played Trance and Techno in the late 90s/early 2000, but only at night. They even had a music video for Jeff Mills - The Bells. | |||||||||||||||||
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