The use of new synthesizers – notably the Roland 303, 808 and 909 models – enabled a new dance music genre. House was a hybrid where disco music, electro and electronic pop took new directions. It was born in Chicago, developed in New York and travelled to UK, where it exploded.
The enduring influence of Kraftwerk, the band that invented electronic pop with albums like The Man Machine and Computer World. The emergence of post punk, synth-pop and the influence of dance music in Madchester’s pop.
Electro is hip-hop’s bastard brother, son of<strong> Kraftwerk</strong>’s fantasies, <strong>George Clinton and Sun Ra</strong>. Drum machines and synthesizers to cook a clearly afrofuturist music. From <strong>New York to Detroit</strong> and then the whole world
Sound recycling from the past to the future. The block parties and the birth of the sampler. Jamaica‘s outdoor party moved to the Bronx and held by African-American and Latino communities. The DJ who converts pieces of forgotten albums into key pieces for the creation of new music while the MC rhymes you will rhyme!