Re:The Roots of Techno (1994)
by egypturnash on Sunday September 23, 2018 @12:47PM
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This is from 1994. My recollection is that the average American of that time would refer to any electronic music as “techno”, especially if it had a strong beat. Checking a few cultural markers (Wipeout and its soundtrack: 1995. Pi, the first movie I saw with a soundtrack full of the music I was listening to: 1998.) matches my memories.
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I completely missed the "from 1994" part (tag was not there at the time of my comment). Things have changed and I don't have my music history down it seems.
But Kraftwerk was still first, no?
The Wipeout packaging and some in-game graphics were made by The Designers Republic, which also designs the EP/LP covers for Autechre (which is featured in the movie Pi).
If you have got Flash:
http://thedesignersrepublic.com/
Note how awful the design actually is from a 'user experience' point of view.
Most record sleeves of 'Warp Records' were from the 'Designers Republic', with both companies being Sheffield Based. Every one of the creations from Designer's Republic was awesome and cool. Just seeing the Warp logo going round at 33 RPM had some statement value.
I do find it funny that looked at objectively the web version of the Designer Republic legacy is so far off the mark of 'good design'.
By the time their work made it to WipeOut they had already become a pastiche of themselves, all of the best work was probably to be found on Warp Records from the early nineties.