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Atkins performing as Model 500 at DEMF in 2007.. Prior to recording "No UFO's", Juan Atkins grew up in a musical family with his father being a music promoter. [2] Atkins first began playing music with friends on his street initially playing bass and guitar until he became 14 or 15 years old, and his family moved to Belleville, Michigan near Atkins' grandmother. [2]
Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) [2] [3] is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany [4] in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos and a distorted sawtooth kick (160 to 200 BPM or more [5]), the intensity of the kicks and the synthesized bass (in some subgenres), [6] the rhythm and the atmosphere of the themes (sometimes ...
Downtempo (or downbeat) [4] is a broad label for electronic music that features an atmospheric sound and slower beats than would typically be found in dance music. [5] Closely related to ambient music but with greater emphasis on rhythm, [6] the style may be played in relaxation clubs or as "warm-up or cool-down" music during a DJ set. [5]
Dub techno is a subgenre of electronic music that originated in the early 1990s, blending the repetitive, minimal structures of techno with the echo-laden, spacey production techniques of dub music. It is notable for its deep, atmospheric soundscapes, layers of elaborate basslines , slowly developing musical phrases featuring heavy delay and ...
Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/techno.The term has been used by the British music industry to describe music by artists such as The Prodigy, the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, the Crystal Method, Propellerheads, Basement Jaxx and Groove Armada.
The first song using the TB-303 to enter the top ten of the UK Singles Chart was "Rip It Up" (1983) by Scottish band Orange Juice. [8] The same year, Japanese musician Ryo Kawasaki used the TB-303 with a TR-808 and synth guitar in his electronic jazz album Lucky Lady (1983). [9] [10] The Chicago group Phuture bought a cheap TB-303 and began ...
The heavy use of synth "stabs" (short, one-hit samples of orchestra hits or synth chords), is considered one of the main characteristics of this style, a feature that was pioneered by Belgian producers and set this style apart from previous styles of house and techno, paving the way for the emergence of breakbeat hardcore and gabber. [5]