Re:The Roots of Techno (1994)
by jlg23 on Sunday September 23, 2018 @02:11PM
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I too am from Europe and I organized my first commercial techno party in Berlin in 1997 and every single artist named Atkins as a pioneer wrt electronic club music.
Wrt your music categories, your ontology is screwed just by its existence: Dutch techno would pass as hard-tek in the US or UK and as gabber in Germany. Lots of Central and South African DnB would pass as triphop in Western Europe.
When I moved from organizing local to international events, I had to learn the hard way that the categorizations of electronic music are a very national thing (probably influenced by the few magazines per country that wrote about it at all).
Wrt your music categories, your ontology is screwed just by its existence: Dutch techno would pass as hard-tek in the US or UK and as gabber in Germany. Lots of Central and South African DnB would pass as triphop in Western Europe.
When I moved from organizing local to international events, I had to learn the hard way that the categorizations of electronic music are a very national thing (probably influenced by the few magazines per country that wrote about it at all).