Techno Dance Music

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Techno Dance Music today is the result of the evolution of other styles over time. Personally I think the Dance began at the beginning of mankind, when someone came up with the tam-tam and started dancing to that and the new instruments that were appearing. Since then, the music undergoes a process of constant evolution and emerging wealth of musical events: classical music, Jazz, Rock, etc …

The new technologies will be one of the fundamental pillars for the creation of the current Techno Dance Music, born in the late 70s. Speaking of music is more and more aspects of evolution that has potential is the Techno Dance as primarily working with a tool with thousands of possibilities, this tool is called syntetizador. Currently, any musical style is influenced by the sound of synthesizers and sound universe created by them and known as techno, hence we think that no one has done anything wrong in this world cursory review in this section.

We could point as the starting date for this current year 70, following the invention of a keyboard instrument called the Moog sound coming out every imaginable and it would change dramatically the musical interpretation, as was possible in an easy Experiments that the timid and psychedelics in the sixties people had tried the Beach Boys, Beatles or groups known as the Tornado, the creators of the first techno-pop song: an instrumental song entitled “Telstar” (1962!).

The Techno Dance Music was born thanks to the evolution of the sound the black American Rhythm & Blues and Soul. One of the artists who contributed to the development of the “dance” was undoubtedly James Brown. Film Corner “Saturday Night Fever” or “Finally Friday is” first showed us a disco or a disc-jockey booth. In the late’70s psychedelia and funky take over the dance floor.

Artists like Earth, Wind & Fire, The Jacksons, Donna Summer and many others filled the nightclubs around the world with his music. Moreover, from Germany, four university called Kraftwerk created the foundation for what would become the Techno sound, and even made their own instruments. In the early’80s, thanks to the work of people like Sugarhill Gang, and Afrika Bambaataa, rap became the banner of youth.

The phenomenon of Breakdance was undoubtedly leading to the merger of Rap and synthesizers, creating a more commercial sound that could “click” at any meeting. Parallel to this, producers like Bobby O ‘and Patrick Cowley turned the sound on High Energy Disco, accelerating the rhythm of dance music. For its part, the musicians who took the path of Kraftwerk created a sound called Techno Pop This new style combined the romantic lyrics with the synthesizer and the result was very positive.

Formations such as Depeche Mode or Yazz became idols for the youth, through the good offices of one of the best musicians of the 80s, Vince Clarke. From Italy in 1983 created a new style: the Italo-Disco, also known as Spaghetti. The basis of this new creation was the High Energy and Techno Pop Spaghetti During the four years filled the tracks of countries like Germany, Holland or Spain.

Two of the biggest artists in the Italo-Disco are Ryan Paris, with its “Dolce Vita” sold 500,000 copies in Spain and Den Harrow, which was maintained for several years as the greatest exponent of this style. In United States Madonna became “Queen of Pop” to extend its success to the rest of the planet. Their songs were a mixture of Pop and Disco music that was precisely the line followed by many artists at the time, but others, like Michael Jackson, preferring to mix with the Funky Pop.

The dj’s became producers and created their own music. People like Interactive, LA. Style, Quadrophonia, and many others, took the machine to the top of the list of “dance”. In Spain, Valencia became the capital of Bakalao “, initiated by artists such as musical or Megabeat Chimo Bayo, even edit their productions abroad and had great success in countries like Italy or Germany. For its part the UK market continues to evolve with artists such as KLF and the House was reduced to gay clubs, to be renamed as the Underground.