Re:The Battle over Techno’s Origins
by pmoriarty on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:51AM
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Also see The History of Tape Looping[1], which starts in the 1940s, though you can definitely take the roots of electronic music back much further.
While only briefly mentioned in the above history, here's Steve Reich, in a piece he made in a 1966 piece called Come Out[2][3], which definitely has the seeds of repetitive electronic music like techno (it's pretty long, I recommend starting about 9'27" in if you don't want to listen to the whole thing).
Though it couldn't be mistaken for a full techno track, I would not be at all surprised to hear something like a portion of that in a lot of electronic music today, almost 60 years later. It sounds a lot more modern than Kraftwerk, anyway.
And here[4] is Delia Derbyshire's[5] Dr Who rendition from 1963... a fully realized electronic dance track, also long, long before Kraftwerk.
While only briefly mentioned in the above history, here's Steve Reich, in a piece he made in a 1966 piece called Come Out[2][3], which definitely has the seeds of repetitive electronic music like techno (it's pretty long, I recommend starting about 9'27" in if you don't want to listen to the whole thing).
Though it couldn't be mistaken for a full techno track, I would not be at all surprised to hear something like a portion of that in a lot of electronic music today, almost 60 years later. It sounds a lot more modern than Kraftwerk, anyway.
And here[4] is Delia Derbyshire's[5] Dr Who rendition from 1963... a fully realized electronic dance track, also long, long before Kraftwerk.
[1] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Y8t10LMuk
[2] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g0WVh1D0N50
[3] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Out_(Reich)
[4] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CM8uBGANASc
[5] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire