Technomusic Liveset

From 1977 to mid-1980s in Detroit aired a nightly radio show called Midnight Funk Association. Hosted by The Electrifying Mojo, his original approach made it popular, causing a significant impact on how to approach the music of an entire generation of listeners. The Electrifying Mojo had to move from station to station due to a risky program that cost several layoffs, because its proposal was outside the usual commercial fee and the type of radio to the African American community that was used. In your room you could hear a personal selection of styles and artists that could include classic soul, Kraftwerk, New English Romantics, p-funk, The Clash or music clásica.10 This program was the inspiration for many African Americans as local producers Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson (known as The Belleville Three for the Detroit Institute where they studied) and Eddie Fowlkes.11 Influenced by German electronic sound and black musical tradition, synthesizers began to produce a type of music that shared elements with electro artists like Afrika Bambaataa made at that time in other parts of the country. Juan Atkins was the pioneer of all, to form in the early 1980s by the Vietnam veteran Richard Davis electro group Cybotron. Among his productions are mind which is considered as the first item of techno history, "Alleys Of Your Mind" (1981), or songs that would form the basis of gender as "Clear" .12 The group has adopted a futuristic aesthetic and related science fiction that is reflected in his music and in the theme of the song and the name of the genre itself. From the work of futurist Alvin Toffler terms were taken as Cybotron, Metroplex or techno.13 14 The sound of Detroit was deeply influenced by African American music American, especially genres like soul and funk, and in particular the P-Funk from Parliament. The style of his keyboardist Bernie Worrell, one of the first funk musicians who changed the Hammond keyboard for synthesizer, greatly influenced the way you play on the drivers of techno.15 The combination of the black tradition with music coming from Europe, including Krautrock, Italo disco of Giorgio Moroder and widespread experimentation with synthesizers taking place, resulted in the first sound techno.16 17 Derrick May was described with a phrase that has become famous: "Techno is a big mistake, like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are being trapped in an elevator and only had a synthesizer to keep them company" one