Techno For a Different Musical Beat by Jon Caldwell
Lounge music is a form of music that was popular during the 1950′s and 1960′s and includes genres like easy listening, exotica, and space age pop. Its characteristic ranges from modern electronica with chillout influences to mellow instrumentals while maintaining its emphasis on space-age elements. Lounge music is designed to create the atmosphere of a totally alien place like an island paradise, a jungle, or outer space. The genre was revived during the early 1990′s by artists like Stereolab, Pink Martini, and Love Jones. In the year 2000, other artists took lounge music to whole new heights by mixing rock and pop.
Hed Kandi is a music brand and a record label based in the UK that specializes in house music. It was established in 1999 by A&R man and DJ Mark Doyle and caters to a whole new generation of grown-up clubbers. Hed Kandi’s musical compilations also includes different genres of eclectic club compilations and individual artist albums. The Hed Kandi series of albums includes Back to Love, Beach House, Deeper, Disco Heaven, Disco Kandi, Hed Kandi the Mix, Nu Cool, Serve Chilled, Twisted Disco, Winter Chill, and Kandi Lounge.
Brian Eno is an electronic music artist from the UK who is also known as the father of modern ambient music. With an art school background under his belt, he first rose to prominence during the 1970′s when he became the synth and keyboard player of glam rock band Roxy Music. When he left the band, he made his own rock albums before working on abstract soundscapes and and experimenting with ambient music. Since then he has created a dozen albums and collaborated with similar artists like John Cale and Robert Fripp. Brian Eno has also made musical collaborations with pop artists like David Bowie. He is also credited for introducing chance music to rock and pop.
Aphex Twin is also known as Richard David James, a British electronic music artist who is considered to be the most influential and inventive of the genre. The name “Aphex Twin” is from a brand of audio signal processing equipment called Aphex Systems Limited and is used with permission as noted on the back sleeve of his Drukqs and Richard D. James albums. The word “twin” was placed in memory of his stillborn brother, who was also named Richard James. Aphex Twin began composing ambient techno music when he was 13 and has over a hundred hours of his early creations. His musical influences are avant garde artists like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and John Cage. He lives in Southeast London in a space that used to be the Bank of Cyprus.
House music is disco music in a more evolved form. It retains the regular, heavy beats of disco but has more electronic elements like synthesized basses and drum machine rhythms. House music is based on songs and draws from a wide number of genres, including jazz, Latin, and reggae.
House music emerged in clubs in Chicago and Detroit during the early eighties and appealed to the poor, the young, and the gay community. House music can be both instrumental and vocal, though vocal house music is more of a call to dance than containing actual lyrics. For instance, “Everybody Dance Now” by C+C Music Factory is a popular, catchy house tune that doesn’t do more than get people dancing. House became more popular as mainstream artists like Madonna incorporated it in her album, Ray of Light, and gave it a more pop angle.
About the Author
Jon Caldwell is a professional content manager. Much of his articles can be found at http://technobeat.net
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