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Electro. Musical style. DJ information blog.
Mixing funk 70th, the emerging hip-hop culture and electronic technology (synthesizer) in the early 80th led to the emergence of new alternative styles of music - Electro. But what the audience seemed just coming fad, quirky 2-3 hits, not more, including songs Afrikaa Bambaataa ( "Planet Rock") and Grandmaster Flash ( "The Message"), not one of which is not entered the Top 40 chart actually was a good springboard for musicians pioneers, who later became founders of radically different directions in music, including Dr. Dre (he worked with the World Class Wreckin 'Crew) and godfather techno Juan Atkins (with the participation of Cybotron). Style Electro also brought another interesting direction for one of his first crush: Herbie Hancock, his album in 1973 with the Headhunters fusion hit again revived in 1983 with the single "Rockit", performed in this style. Despite the great success (in this style is made Rhino Electric Funk album on 4 discs), the style was quickly replaced in mid-80th with the emergence of hip-hop movement, which was built more on samples (often rock songs) than on the line synthesizer . Nevertheless, many techno and dance musicians continued to return to a sound, and full-scale revival of electro happened in Detroit and Britain in mid-90 - x d.
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