COMPILATIONS WITH afrika bambaata

Electro Rap ‘83-’85

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

‘looking for the perfect beat’ – part three of the styleguides electro series deals with hiphop after it turned from disco to electro in the early 80s. this styleguides issue merely holds the hits of this genre, as amazon and even the world’s largest music archive, youtube, are missing nearly all the secret goodies.

bonus track not available anywhere but youtube nowadays is warp 9’s electro space boogie ‘light years away’ (prism records 1983):

Electro ‘81-’83

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

electro music in it’s pure form is primarily about tr808 drum machine fetishism. several synthesizers helped start a new music genre (dx7, tb303, tr909, kpr77 etc), but tr808 seems to be the most prominent of them. if time allows there will be further styleguide compilations for early 80s electro r’n'b and electro rap.

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