Re:History of Techno
by kristopolous on Thursday April 29, 2021 @04:37AM
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To be honest I think after the rise of gangsta rap and miami bass, the whole era kinda got discarded: whodini, mantronix, man parrish, egyptian lover, grandmaster flash. Actually you could probably say the writing was on the wall after the decline of the party rockers in 1983-84 (epitomized by the Busy Bee Starski/Kool Moe D battle from 1981). Afrika Bambaataa is still occasionally releasing btw. 2017: https://youtu.be/sOx7VeHPIJY - if you were hoping for a more faithful traditional electro, check out this label instead https://dominanceelectricity.bandcamp.com/
The current narrative still discards it as if big hits like Freeez's IOU and Alexander Robotnick's Problèmes d'amour wasn't influential when that style mutated just a tad a year or two later and called itself techno.
Speaking of Cybotron and electro check out Nitro Delux "Journey to Cybotron Transform" off Cutting Records (1986)
Newcleus is fully sick though. I dunno if people overlook them as a gimmick or what, but the first album is just track after absolute track.