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Top 10 most influential EDM artists of all time.
I was hoping TA could help with this, perhaps with a giant vote or something if this thread does end up actually taking off. In no particular order I can list:
Names in Italics are ones I have added from other posts...
Prodigy
Kraftwerk
Daft Punk
Sasha & Digweed
Oakenfold
Depeche Mode
Faithless
Brian Eno
BT
Aphex Twin
...off the top of my head. I've only been an EDM listener since the late nineties so I can't list anything before that. I'm sure I'll get a flood of posts listing artists before my time and telling me I'm a jackass, but that's the whole idea.
I would love to hear some old school EDM freaks input on this...
jean michel jarre would certainly be top 3
Depeche Mode
Jean Michel Jarre
Kraftwerk
Raymond Scott even though his stuff was less musical and more experimental.
New Order.
Sasha & Digweed.
Underworld (maybe).
Depeche Mode.
Tony Wilson (not an artist, but without whom we would be without many).
Mike Oldfield.
Brian Eno.
William Orbit.
Movers and shakers, those that had incredible mass appeal (not to mention all time classic tracks to their name) and those consistently listed as inspirations are all qualities equating to 'most influential':
Oakenfold
Larry Levan
Fatboy Slim
Frankie Knuckles
Faithless
PVD
Moby
Kevin Saunderson
Derrick May
I'll get back to this list again later!
Edit and later again as well...
Search, tons of threads like this
oh. I forgot. Madonna.
without a frigin doubt.
disagree all you want.
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| Originally posted by boi85 oh. I forgot. Madonna. without a frigin doubt. disagree all you want. |
Richard D. James
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| Originally posted by JakeC Not madonna herself. The producers she shagged maybe. |
We had one of these- Sasha won. Fucking joke.
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J We had one of these- Sasha won. Fucking joke. |
Frankie Wilde
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| Originally posted by boi85 can someone please pull up this thread. or throw a link my way. would be very interested to have a read. did a search but had no idea what to search for. thanks |
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| Originally posted by boi85 can someone please pull up this thread. or throw a link my way. would be very interested to have a read. did a search but had no idea what to search for. thanks |
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| Originally posted by sandstorm03 what did you search for? You must not have tried very hard http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=254926&highlight=Best+EDM+Artist |
Re: Top 10 most influential EDM artists of all time.
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| Originally posted by kixalot I was hoping TA could help with this, perhaps with a giant vote or something if this thread does end up actually taking off. In no particular order I can list: Prodigy Kraftwerk Daft Punk Sasha & Digweed ...off the top of my head. I've only been an EDM listener since the late nineties so I can't list anything before that. I'm sure I'll get a flood of posts listing artists before my time and telling me I'm a jackass, but that's the whole idea. I would love to hear some old school EDM freaks input on this... |
As a DJ few have done as much for EDM as Pete Tong
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| Originally posted by gizzymcg As a DJ few have done as much for EDM as Pete Tong |
what the hell ?
no ones mentioned moroder yet lol. Without him we wouldnt have that driving bassline, or 4 to the floor kick. all sequenced.
how come sasha is on that list.. and digweed.. they do not belong there. MAaaaaybe oakenfold.
# 1 IS giorgio moroder or Kraftwerk for sure
1) giorgio moroder (this music he produced was more structured electronic disco) 70s!!
2) Kraftwerk (pureley electronic, a bit more on the experimental side) 70s!!
3) Mauro Farina (started the whole european electronic disco trend, and produced almost every artist, sorta like the Dr Dre of 80s euro disco electronica)
4) Arthur baker (inventor of true freestyle dance & hip hop, sampling two kraftwerk tracks to create his phenominal hit planet rock, this guy set the marker for creative dancable freestyle music, inspiring artists such as nice and wild, stevie B, Jellybean and even modern artists who still use that refined structure to create electro)
5) Stock Aitken and waterman (ill put these guys together, they produced tons of artists in the 80s, including dead or alive, bananarama, rick astley, sabrina, mel and kim, kylie minogue and samantha fox)
6) Gianfranco bortolotti (80s disco producer moved on to produce unique dance in the early 90s with that housey euro feel. then on to euro dance as cappella and then attempted trance as sosa. Just his pallet alone gives him this top position, not to mention he was an influence for newer artists like mauro picotto and gigi d'agostino. The european house sound would not be the same without this man's innovations.)
7)Juan atkins (wihtout this guy there probably wouldnt have been a huge expansion into the whole sampling, looping and underground feel of house music as we know it in north america. More influencial for his inovations then the quality of his productions this artist created underground TECHNO and that whole start to looped sampled underground music)
8) patrick cowley (one of the pioneers of north american electronic music production, basically the moroder of north america, had he not died so early he would have probably made it higher on my list as his influence would have been greater)
9) New order (these guys were a great influence, this of synthpop was unique to europe very complex sampling going on here. An advancement of what was going on in the earlier 80s they deserve a position in the top 10)
10) Paul oakenfold (A Dj and producer, he's done alot for the underground progressive electronic music scene, although he didnt do much in the 70s and 80s he made a significant feat into popularizing the underground genre for hundreds and thousands of people [maybe millions] in the 90s.
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| Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit 4) Arthur baker (inventor of true freestyle dance & hip hop, sampling two kraftwerk tracks to create his phenominal hit planet rock, this guy set the marker for creative dancable freestyle music, inspiring artists such as nice and wild, stevie B, Jellybean and even modern artists who still use that refined structure to create electro) |
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| 5) Stock Aitken and waterman (ill put these guys together, they produced tons of artists in the 80s, including dead or alive, bananarama, rick astley, sabrina, mel and kim, kylie minogue and samantha fox) |
Let's make a poll, the one with Sasha is about the best EDM artist, not the most influential.
My top 10, in no particular order:
Vangelis
JMJ
Tangerine Dream
Kraftwerk
Juan Atkins
Sven Vath
Jeff Mills
Paul Van Dyk
Sasha
Laurent Garnier
BT (BRIAN TRANSEAU)
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