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In 1993, Johnny Black of Hi-Fi News, in a review for the record Hi-Tech/No Crime, described YMO as "the most adventurous and influential electro-techno-dance technicians the world has produced" and further argued that "without them (and Kraftwerk) today's music would still sound like yesterday's music."
This trio released a number of rock and electro-inspired tunes, [33] the most successful of which were Clear (1983) and its moodier followup, "Techno City" (1984). [34] [35] Atkins used the term techno to describe Cybotron's music, taking inspiration from Futurist author Alvin Toffler, the original source for words such as cybotron and metroplex.
Synth-pop (also known as electropop or technopop) [1] [2] is a music genre that uses the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. With the genre becoming popular in the late 1970s and 1980s, the following article is a list of notable synth-pop acts, listed by the first letter in their name (not including articles such as "a", "an", or "the").
Giorgio Moroder (born 1940), influential Italian record producer, songwriter, performer and DJ who won several Academy Awards, Grammys and other awards, is frequently credited with pioneering synthesizer disco and electronic dance music; Monika Kruse, internationally acclaimed German techno and house DJ since the 1990s and label boss of ...
The most influential turntable was the Technics SL-1200, [21] which was developed in 1971 by a team led by Shuichi Obata at Matsushita, which then released it onto the market in 1972. [17] In the 1980s and 1990s hip-hop DJs used turntables as musical instruments in their own right and virtuosic use developed into a creative practice called ...
According to The Recording Academy, the award "recognizes excellence in recordings from established dance and electronic genres such as house, techno, trance, dubstep, drum and bass, electronica, as well as other emerging dance and electronic genres, with production and sensibilities distinctly different from a pop approach."
Video game soundtracks considered the best Year Game Lead composer(s) Notes Ref. 1985 Super Mario Bros. Koji Kondo: The Super Mario Bros. theme was the first musical piece from a video game to be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.
Ambient techno songs (3 C, 1 P) 0–9. 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor songs (8 P) 2 Unlimited songs (19 P) 808 State songs (4 P) B. Baby D (dance group) songs (3 P) C.