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  2. Eurodance - Wikipedia

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    Eurodance (sometimes referred to as Euro-NRG) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe. It combines many elements of rap, techno and Eurodisco. [2] This genre of music is heavily influenced by the use of rich vocals, sometimes with rapped verses.

  3. Drum machine - Wikipedia

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    Drum machine tracks were also heavily used on the Sly & the Family Stone album There's a Riot Goin' On, released in 1971. Sly & the Family Stone was the first group to have a number #1 pop single that used a drum machine: that single was "Family Affair". [16] The German krautrock band Can also used a drum machine on their songs "Peking O" and ...

  4. Roland CR-78 - Wikipedia

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    The CR-78's built-in rhythm sounds were a further development of those available on the earlier Roland Rhythm 33, 55 and 77 machines. The analog percussion voices consist of bass drum, snare drum, rim shot, hi-hat, cymbal, maracas, claves, cowbell, high bongo, low bongo, low conga, tambourine, guiro, and "metallic beat" (an accent that could be overlaid on the hi-hat voice).

  5. Eurobeat - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1970s, Eurodisco musicians such as Silver Convention and Donna Summer were popular in America. [7]In the 1980s, a highly polished production with "musical simplicity" at its core — from Bubblegum Pop-like lyrics, catchy (in some cases Italian, in other Eurodisco-like) melodies, to "elementary" song structures — an average British Eurobeat song took very little time to complete. [8]

  6. Breakbeat - Wikipedia

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    Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that uses drum breaks, often sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B.Breakbeats have been used in styles such as Florida breaks, hip hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK garage styles (including 2-step, breakstep and dubstep).

  7. Jungle music - Wikipedia

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    Jungle is a genre of electronic music that developed out of the UK rave scene and Jamaican sound system culture in the 1990s. Emerging from breakbeat hardcore, the style is characterised by rapid breakbeats, heavily syncopated percussive loops, samples, and synthesised effects, combined with the deep basslines, melodies, and vocal samples found in dub, reggae and dancehall, as well as hip hop ...

  8. List of electronic drum performers - Wikipedia

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    John Blackwell Jr. used electronic drums when he played with Prince. This is a partial list of notable users of electronic drums.Electronic drums have sensors or sensor-equipped pads, which the drummer strikes with a stick (or with their hand) to trigger synthesized or sampled drum or percussion sounds that are stored in a memory in an electronic drum module or synthesizer.

  9. Boogie (genre) - Wikipedia

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    Patrice Rushen 2010. Boogie (sometimes called post-disco [1] [2] [3] and electro-funk) [3] is a rhythm and blues genre of electronic dance music with close ties to the post-disco style, that first emerged in the United States during the late 1970s to mid-1980s.