Well here we go again....back to one of the most controversial music genres on the dance scene known as...ELECTRO!

Arriving at about the same time as a lot of material in the 80's groove category, Electro had a much more difficult time with the DJ community, due to the experimental nature of the recordings.

When I heard "planet rock" for the first time it just blew me away as it does today.   Taking a lot of influences from kraftwerk and using the Roland 808 drum machine it created something that was unheard of, almost alien and futuristic.

Roland 808  

This music truly has stood the test of time and most of the techno tracks of today still borrow heavily from this style and its true to say that without Electro there would be no Acid house, trance, techno...you get the idea.

"Electro - the beat that wont be beaten" proclaimed the face magazine in big bold letters across its May 84' cover! However,by this point, the scene was two years old and the Electro era was coming to an end and about to mutate, inspiring the two titans of hip hop and house, having already set the blueprint for the coming decade of dance.  Electro was the hybrid and its legacy is vast. It introduced us to hip hop culture, provided the soundtrack for the breakdance generation and proceeded to explode rap and scratch mixing out from the underground and into the mainstream.  It bought remixing to the fore and embraced the Jamaican concept of the dub mix, and its use of sequencers, samplers and beatboxes like the 808 conspired to bring about the forthcoming dance revolution...

Electro ..so much to answer for !!!!!

Enjoy the examples of Electro and take yourself back to a time when music was truly original.

Artists to check out

man parrish   Time zone  Afrika bambaataa  Tyrone brunson  Mantronix

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planet rock

hip hop bebop

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