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Historical MusicologyThe History of Popular Rave Music By Emma-louise Foster It is only by looking to the past that will transform the world into the future. Deaf Rave In London 2004 a rave phenomenon started at the Rocket club, run by Troi Lee, who was born deaf. How does this event variate from a customary club night? Volume, Thumping bass, Basically music so loud, that it can be physically felt - the dance floor experience can be picked up through the rumble of a fantastic pumped-up bass line, an amazing experience evolved from sheer brilliance. This will definitely open the floodgates of creativity and push Rave music towards the future of sound. Techno The rave music genre is very non-commercial as raves are where the sounds are appreciated as apposed to pop music which is built for the pop chart, the only chart running in the UK, unrepresentitive of the genres that have evolved throughout the years. Many believe that the charts in America are far superior as they represent all genres in over forty different categories. Techno was developed in basement studios by "The Belleville Three" proudly named by their college, a few African-American students in Detroit, Michigan. The word came from "technology music", it was based at first on basic music machines or electronic rythmic machine, bassline and syntesizers for example Roland CR78, TR808. Inspiration The budding musicians Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson found inspiration in Midnight Funk Association, an eclectic, late-night radio program hosted on various Detroit radio stations including WCHB, WGPR, and WJLB-FM from 1977 through the mid-1980s by DJ Charles "The Electrifying Mojo" Johnson. Mojo's show featured heavy doses of electronic sounds from the likes of George Clinton, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream, among others.* Recognition of the Techno Genre Music producers were using the word "techno" in a general sense as early as 1984 as in Cybotron's classic "Techno City", sporadic references to "techno-pop" can be found in the music press in the mid-1980s. However, it was not until Neil Rushton assembled the compilation Techno The New Dance Sound Of Detroit for Virgin UK in 1988 that the word came to formally describe a genre of music. Techno has since been defined to encompass, works dating back to "Shari Vari" (1981) by A Number Of Names, the earliest compositions by Cybotron (1981), Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder's "I Feel Love" (1977), and Kraftwerk's repertoire between 1978 and 1983. Rave The rave music genre includes many evolved separate branches that stem from the techno tree the tree is a place of worship for many people from many different walks of life and the feeling is unanimous globally because it means as much as religion to many worshipers and even more to those who use it to their advantage. The stems in order of sprouting are as follows: Ambience is relaxation music or just chill out. The mixture consists of most other music genres including: - Rock, Folk, Techno, Classical and New age. The first example of its kind was released in 1978. For example: KLF "Chill Out," Often listeners will forget they are listening to ambient music, which is one of the biggest attractions of the genre. Acid House first emerged from the Chicago clubs including the warehouse, in the mid-eighties before really taking hold in Scotland. Artists such as Primal Scream, Leftfield and the entire Techno Rave scene was deeply influenced by the sound, beginning a new revolution in music. For example Josh Wink's Higher State of Consciousness. Happy Hardcore was invented by young Scottish musicians in the early nineties, the drum beats are stomping, bouncy and at high speed beats per minute between 160 and 180, vocals mostly are sampled from old 50s or 60s ballads. German musicians were also at the forefront of hardcore and carnival inspired group named Scooter are still releasing chart topping commercial dance /pop singles, after their first UK no 1 in 1993. Gabber formed by extremely talented Djs with a resentment for commercialisation of techno, has a super-high energy beat and based on the complexity minimisation theory and usually has loads of scratching thrown in for good measure this genre was developed in Holland in the nineties. All music nowadays is tweaked using technology therefore since techno arrived it has changed all other genres in a way that allows the artist or visionary involved in composing to produce a sound that is perfected, therefore all music produced these days is actually techno in retrospect. Rave Culture Strobe lights, fog, and party atmosphere included the rave culture has always been a well publicised Drug use, danger, sweat, and light sticks affair, but on the other hand when illegal raves were in full swing and relatively new around the late eighties and early nineties the figures from the police reports concerning football hooliganism feel to an all time low. Anyone could attend wearing anything they wanted for example many building trade workers would wear their high viability vests to dress up and appreciate the occasion. All ravers were out to dance and bounced around in time with thumping bass lines, observing each sound as though they were under a spell from an evil record. The appreciations of these sounds were abundant, for up to as long as twelve hours or more as per normal. Scotlands own contribution to Techno Scotland is an under-populated country - containing over one third of the UK landmass, but less than 9% of its population. Situated, remotely, on the fringes of north Western Europe, the Scottish music industry is generally associated across the world with its more traditional forms. However, despite such a perception, this small nation of 5.1 million inhabitants has actually made a substantial and fantastic contribution to popular music over recent decades. The Scottish groups dominated the Scottish rave music scene during the late 80s and 1990s. Scottish Groups include Ultra Sonic (Public Domain, Rodger Hughes, Mallorca Lee, worked with producer Marc Smith), The Rhythmic State, QFX, Q-Tex, Night crawlers, The Time Frequency, Bass Reaction, Bass-X, Kinetic Pleasure (Stephen Green), Dance Overdose, Ultimate Buzz, Casio Brothers (fronted by Stephen Clarke), Suburban Delay (DJ Bass Generator), Dymension, Hyperact, Human Resource, The Shamen, Chill FM, Sub source and Djs: Billy Reid, Scott Brown, Tom Wilson, DJ Seduction, Lenny Dee, Marc Smith, Grooverider, Dj technotrance, Trevor Reilly, Joe Deacon, Obsession, and many others. *appendix www.techno-rebels.com
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