I think what NRG meant to say was that in the 80's, Freestyle and Electro were, in a way, two sides of the same coin, one side you heard on your top 40 radio station every day, and the other you heard in the streets of New York wherever there was a group of Black folk standing in a circle around a breakdancer.

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Originally posted by Aiwendil I think what NRG meant to say was that in the 80's, Freestyle and Electro were, in a way, two sides of the same coin, one side you heard on your top 40 radio station every day, and the other you heard in the streets of New York wherever there was a group of Black folk standing in a circle around a breakdancer.

yeah actually that about sums it up

im not to familiar with the north american side of things.. im guessing thats your specialty radagas

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Originally posted by SteveAngello Electro has been around since the 80's Hardly the latest buzz word

that's where you're wrong. All genres have been around for a long time yes, but when I say it's the latest 'buzz' word I'll explain a bit further.

Each year usually people find something to be 'cool' in the uk, 1999 was trance, 2000 was hardhouse & uk garage & 2004 was funky house. 2005 is minimal techno & electro with all the trend followers supposedly listening to it now. A lot of what comes out now, I don't believe qualifies as true electro, and most of the stuff in Aiwendal's mix suggestion is more like it.

Its crap.

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Originally posted by Aiwendil Not exactly. Electro is the amended form of Electro Funk, which is short for electronic funk, which is what it is, Funk music made with electronic instruments whereas previously it had been made with real instruments. Electro-Funk's heyday was relatively short...I think. At least, most electro funk records by guys like Maurice Starr, Michael Jonzun, Zapp, and all those guys seem to have come out between 1979 and 1982. Anyway, at first electro-funk was pretty much pure funk sounding, and everyone called it funk until a few artists released some genre-creating Electro Funk records in '82. Over time Electro Funk began to depart from its pure funk roots to less of a traditional farty-bass funk music and more of a robotic Kraftwerk-influenced sound which eventually people shortened from "electro funk" to "electro". By 1983 Electro was booming in New York, LA, and Miami, and had a Grammy-Winning MTV hit under its belt. In NY and LA, it was the backdrop to thriving B-Boy cultures. In Miami, the emphasis was on who could make Electro that would best catch your sub's on fire: The Stereo Wars were in full effect. Some of the first Electro artists include Kraftwerk, of course, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Afrika Bambaataa, Egyptian Lover, Mantronix, Maggotron, Twilight 22, Jonzun Crew, World Class Wreckin' Cru, The Unknown DJ, X-Men, Willesden Dodgers, The Furious Five, The Arabian Prince, and Newcleus. A lot of it was Electro-Hop or Electro-Rap, a fusion of Electro and Rap, which was also becoming popular at the time and was closely linked to the Electro/B-Boy scene of the time. Since then Electro has never "died", it has only gone into a regression. Between the late 80's and mid 90's it went under underground and was only being made in a few places like Miami and Detroit. By the mid and late 90's it had begun spreading across the world again and is now made by many producers all over the world. As for what Electro actually is, i'll just take a quote from Wikpedia..."Records in the genre are unabashed about their use of electronic and artificial sounds, taking this technological fetish almost into science fiction with many records about space travel and futuristic dystopias." This is what electro is all about, right here. Kraftwerk-inspired retro-futuristic visions brought about through sounds that...well...would remind one of Robots and Machines. It's vague, true...but what defines Electro is at least 50% vision. The vision of man and machine.

Nice description. Write it to the Wikipedia, please, this is a "chapter" missing there. Maybe this stops the confusion about Electro....

I play stuff that was made in the 80's by a german group called Legowelt, still sounds terrific on the dancefloors, this is pure electro

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Originally posted by SteveAngello I play stuff that was made in the 80's by a german group called Legowelt, still sounds terrific on the dancefloors, this is pure electro

Legowelt is one Dutch guy, and he released his first music under that alias in 1996.

Hmmm, must have him confused with someone then

Cus I have a couple of EP's from the mid 80's that are rockin

This should pretty much sum up today's electro flavor:

Steve Lawler - Out At Night (Nathan Fake Mix)
Sander Kleinenberg - The Fruit (Tom Novy Mix)
Trentemoller - Beta Boy

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Originally posted by DigitalMP This should pretty much sum up today's electro flavor: Steve Lawler - Out At Night (Nathan Fake Mix) Sander Kleinenberg - The Fruit (Tom Novy Mix) Trentemoller - Beta Boy

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Originally posted by DigitalMP This should pretty much sum up today's electro flavor: Steve Lawler - Out At Night (Nathan Fake Mix) Sander Kleinenberg - The Fruit (Tom Novy Mix) Trentemoller - Beta Boy

Robbie Rivera - Float Away