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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by throwaway11460 on Friday March 15, 2024 @06:06AM (#39713889)
This is a different branch of music that doesn't have much in common with Chicago style house/techno. It's similar so people lump it together, but it evolved separately from synthpop, eurodance and electronic music that Kraftwerk did in 70s. The modern commercial EDM/techno is pretty different from what you're going to hear at a Berlin/Prague underground techno club, and has almost nothing in common with freetekno as heard in the forests.
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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by helboi4 on Friday March 15, 2024 @07:44AM (#39714437)
I beg to differ. Plenty of Berlin techno is a descendant of Detroit techno. The fact that you only mentioned Chicago already shows a lack of understanding. Kraftwerk and the others you mentioned influenced Detroit techno pioneers, Detroit techno pioneers influenced Berlin techno pioneers. It's a transatlantic sound.
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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by throwaway11460 on Friday March 15, 2024 @11:07AM (#39716601)
I mentioned Chicago because the parent did.

But I agree that there's a lot of cross influence.

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Re:Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural... by pgeorgi on Friday March 15, 2024 @06:25AM (#39713988)
Haven't you heard about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_for_Electronic_Music_(W..., America's finest place of avantgardist music and sound experimentation? (/s)
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