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Electronic Music Histroy Project.

my science and culture fair is coming up, and my music teacher wanted me to do a music project for him. i decided on going for electronic music history, and an exhibition, complete with hardware synths and a turntable setup.

for the presentation, i want to start off with Kraftwerk, the creation of the synthesizer, creation of house music, it's evolution, all the way to modern EDM, featuring today's most prominent stars, and tomorrow's up and coming talents.

then, we'll end the presentation with a short set.

so far, i'm gathering pictures of figures and/or equipment that impacted EDM as we know it. i have:

Kraftwerk
Frankie Knuckles
Derrick May
Paul Oakenfold
Sasha
John Digweed
Carl Cox
Sven Vath
Danny Tenaglia

for equipment:

Technics 1200SL's
Roland TB-303

if you guys have any suggestions, ideas for things i can do for this presentation, be sure to shoot. ive got me plenty info, but id really appreciated if you guys could post some links to further extend my knowledge.

what about drugs and the aspect of ibiza and nonbylaw (illegal) raves that emerged in america and the UK.

i think you got the past artists down, but what about today? who are the artists that are popular and/or innovating the scene? tiesto? armin? schulz?

btw what about other genres? such as dnb? would you say that it is still relatively underground compared to trance/house/techno?

how come ive never got to do projects like this in high school?

i dont think a person doing a project about hip hop is going to talk about crack and rape

hmm, im trying to steer as clear from the drug scene as possible, but i am definitely going to mention it. but it is essentially a music project. anyways, im not at all well versed about DnB, but i will be mentioning Afrika Bambaata, who as far as i know is the Pioneer of breakbeats. so ill have to research about DnB. i will do a talents of today section, where ill be including the top dogs nowadays of each style.

i will be mentioning:

dave seaman
deep dish
sasha
digweed
james zabiela
james holden
steve lawler
danny howells
armin van buuren
tiesto
eddie halliwell
judge jules
paul van dyk
sven vath
ritchie hawtin
frank lorber
erick morillo
satoshi tomiie
anthony pappa
adam freeland
hybrid

and many moooore....

1)I edited the sig (well I will shortly)
2)PM me if you wish to know anything about the history of house or techno.
Larry Levan really started it.

Kool Keith Herc is the father of the breaks scene.

bah, gotta screw with my sig now.

anyways, ill PM you tta, but i think it would be a lot more constructive if you just posted it here.

House should really be divided into two sections of importance

New York House and Chicago House

New York House started really with Francois K and others but I will focus on the club culture to keep it simple because I probably go on for weeks about this. Larry Levan played a club in the mid 70's and his 2nd in command was Frankie Knuckles who became known for spiking the punch at a party. Larry Levan was a crazy character who played videos and stopped the music at times and left silence, he used to clean the mirrorballs in the middle of a night. He was a crazy guy, well someone from a Chicago club comes to Levan and says hey do you want to be the deejay for this new club that we are opening. He says No but I know who does and he suggested Frankie Knuckles. So Frankie Knuckles moves to Chicago and plays at a club called the wareHOUSE, which really gave house, the name and direction. He played from 1977-1983 and funny enough, he lived there in a loft in the warehouse. While Knuckles was pushing his sound to a wider audience, you still had Barbara Tucker, Chaka Khan, Giorgio Moroder pushing disco (well it was not really house till the early 80's). It all started out as a place that gay kids could have a good time and hang out.

Chicago House

So Frankie Knuckles is playing the warehouse and really shaping house (dunno why it took off in Chicago) in the late 70's and he had a friend who would also shape the House music scene. Frankie Knuckles had a friend named Ron Hardy and they got along very well. Eventually some club owner comes to Knuckles and says I need a dj for upscale gay Chicago club (more for the rich people in Chicago) and Knuckles said No he would not but said I know who would and suggested. Deja Vu anybody?, anyway Hardy went to play the musicbox, which would influence a ton of people, which I'll get into later. Knuckles eventually left the warehouse because they wanted to double the admission to something like 8 bucks. Knuckles moves on to the powerplant nightclub and Hardy was playing at the musicbox. Now some people think that Knuckles and Hardy really hated each other and went for people like vultures but that was not the case, they were friends and Knuckles played to the non rich gay crowd in one side of Chicago and Hardy played to the upscale gay crowd. Knuckles fades a bit, even tho he was still the one pushing house and really helped it make it's name. Chicago's scene was to grow in the next few years but Hardy's biggest contribution was the person that influenced the big names. At the musicbox, you had marshall jefferson, chez damier and others who basically got the inspiration to become house producers from Hardy. That was still not Hardy's biggest contribution to music, at times he had a black kid who came to the musicbox when he visited his mother in Chicago and his name was Derrick May. May's biggest inspiration was Hardy and Atkins and Saunderson went with him. They later went on the 3 of them with May in the lead to create techno and shape different music. Now about Ron Hardy's character, he was a mean guy who was really nasty to certain people and he was hated as a person but they say, boy could he play great music. About that time, Ron Hardy got into the wrong crowd (well some argue it was before that) but he got into heroin addiction and it led him to destruction. He did not have a stable job after the musicbox closed in 1987 and he even sold his rare house records for money for drugs. Hardy fades into obscurity. Oh I forgot to mention that Levan had a tremendous drug problem and after Studio 54 closed in 1987, levan did not have a stable job, tho he helped set up the original MOS soundsystem. Anyway in 1991, Levan was on a tour in Japan and fell ill and died, complication with the heart, brought on by drugs. 10 months later, Ron Hardy died of health problems because of his addiction problem. So Levan and Hardy died (walter gibbons died that same year)

I'm tired, so I'll go into how Chicago House grew with the Hot Mix 5 and some others and trax records another time. Remember around this time, btw acid house hit big in the UK (1988).

that was very helpful. thanks man, i appreciate it. if someone is willing to contribute, ANYTHING at all, it will be welcomed. anything from the creation of breaks to the formation of the ibiza club scene, go ahead.

That was very informitive Torronto! Well written too, can't wait to read some more

Don't forget The KLF- they influenced the entire 90s ambient/chillout scene, gave the world Stadium House and introduced the term "Trance" to the scene.

Breaks was really started in the mid 70's by Kool DJ Herc who isolated the break then repeated them or the dancable part of funk records from the late 60's, which he played.

by the way Inertia, you should get the book 'Last night a dj saved my life' by Bill Brewster. theres a lot of info on how djing came to what it is now and the evolution of house, trance and hip hop movemeent. cause its all linked somehow.

while yer at it

rough guide to house
rough guide to techno
rough guide to drum n bass

all have artists bios really but when you read it, the book puts the history. Even if you read all the books mentioned, it takes years to realize this crap because no one book has it all.

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Originally posted by Shudder by the way Inertia, you should get the book 'Last night a dj saved my life' by Bill Brewster. theres a lot of info on how djing came to what it is now and the evolution of house, trance and hip hop movemeent. cause its all linked somehow.

I saw this book the other week, and very nearly bought it. Is it worth it?

if you want to learn more about music history then yes.

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Originally posted by torontotrance Breaks was really started in the mid 70's by Kool DJ Herc who isolated the break then repeated them or the dancable part of funk records from the late 60's, which he played.

yeah, found some nice texts on Clive Campbell aka Kool Herc, cool stuff.

by the way dudes.

someone help me pick a soundrack.

when i speak of the first house music, what track should i have playing? the first breaks? frst trance?

for first techno. i was thinking something like rhythm is rhythm - strings of life.

http://www.projecta.net/hisdm02.htm

search this forum for a thread called "a short histery of trance" .... i think

Check Ishkur's guide:
http://www.ishkur.com/features/music/index.htm

All the tunes you'll ever need

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Originally posted by mndeg i dont think a person doing a project about hip hop is going to talk about crack and rape

Uh?!

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Originally posted by Inertia by the way dudes. someone help me pick a soundrack. when i speak of the first house music, what track should i have playing? the first breaks? frst trance? for first techno. i was thinking something like rhythm is rhythm - strings of life.

rhythm is rhthm is nothing like the genre of techno that is played today, but you could categorize that as an early song

i think for techno you should use it as a "shock" song to show that mainstream culture is ignorant to what the genre of techno really is
play something really hard like electric deluxe - electric deluxe

trance definitely needs more than 2 songs and its pretty much up to you to choose

I think torontotrance is missing the forest for the trees. Seriously man, he's just giving a short presentation on the history of electronic music, not a day-long in depth seminar. I doubt he has much more than 10-15 minutes to make his presentation, he can't possibly spend 90% of it talking about what Marshall Jefferson ate for breakfast the morning he decided to hook up a tb-303 to his drum machine.

A light overview works, especially if you want to talk about ALL of it. For names and pioneers (as well as the music they spearheaded), I recommend the following, in chronological order:

Early electronic pioneers (ie everything < 1970): Wendy Carlos, Kraftwerk, Bob Moog, Leon Theremin, John Cage, Steve Reich.
Brian Eno = ambient
Kool Herc = father of DJing
Throbbing Gristle = industrial
Giorgio Moroder = electronic disco (which beget Italo, which beget Hi-NRG, which beget eurodance)
Kurtis Blow = rap (debatable)
Afrikaa Bambaataa/Arthur Baker = electro
Juan Atkins = techno
Larry Levan = garage
Frankie Knuckles/Ron Hardy = house
Marshall Jefferson/DJ Pierre = acid house
KLF/The Orb = Ambient revival (ambient house)
Prodigy = oldskool rave hardcore (later morphing into happy hardcore)
Spiral Tribe = hardcore techno (which beget hardcore)
Sven Vath = trance
DJ Hype = jungle (debatable)
LTJ Bukem = atmospheric jungle
Union Jack = progressive trance (debatable)
Captain Tinrib/Tony de Vit = NRG/UK "hard" house
Aphex Twin = IDM

And then everything just becomes a jumbled mess after 1994, and no one's really sure who invented what at that point. If it's history you want, you really shouldn't dwell on anything after that year anyway. You seem to also want to give a rundown of today's best artists, so I'll give you my thoughts of your suggestions:

dave seaman
no

deep dish
no

sasha
no

digweed
no

james zabiela
no

james holden
no

steve lawler
no

danny howells
no

armin van buuren
no

tiesto
no

eddie halliwell
no

judge jules
no

paul van dyk
hmmm. Maybe, if time permits.

sven vath
yes.

ritchie hawtin
perhaps. Must include Plus-8 if you're going to talk about techno's second wave, after all.

frank lorber
no

erick morillo
no

satoshi tomiie
no

anthony pappa
no

adam freeland
no

hybrid
no


Not even sure what half of these guys are here for. They're decent producers/DJs, sure, and some of them are excessively popular, but they aren't innovators, groundbreakers and rule-changers of their particular fields. Keep that in mind when you're populating your presentation with names that will fly completely over the heads of your audience.

*sits and takes notes*

A discussion on history of EDM between Ishkur and tta should be very intersting, to say the least I'll add my 2 cents later

He wanted my version of the history, so I gave it to him. I never mentioned what Marshall Jefferson ate for breakfast, you are just mad that I slated your pos guide. He wanted a history, so he got it. He can do what he wants with what I wrote, Levan and Hardy should be mentioned because they pushed music. You want to talk acid house, you forget to mention Larry Heard aka Mr.Fingers who really made the landmark track.

you want to do a history, do it this way

-1970's gay kids go to clubs to hang out
-Larry Levan is playing disco and garage
-Frankie Knuckles = number 2 under Levan
-Levan stays in NYC
-Frankie goes to Chicago and plays at the wareHOUSE (which gave house the name)
-His second in command goes to another club and they push the genre
-Ron Hardy influences the chicago house pioneers
-At the same time, Atkins and a vietnam vet are making music under cybotron (earlier techno)
-May, Saunderson and Atkins decide in 1985 to call their music TECHNO and push it (leading people like dave clarke and co. to take up techno music) i.e the growth of techno
-Chicago's house scene grows immensely in the mid 80's

then you can talk about the growth of acid house in the UK

hardcore splitting into all the genres

history is complete (forget the current stuff)....you are doing the history.

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