Effectively a hybrid of Tangerine Dream-style cosmic synth-rock and Giorgio Moroder Euro-disco, trance began to crystallize out of turn-of-the-decade trippy techno at the end of the 1980s (although disco records such as Grace’s ‘Not Over Yet’ or Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’, produced by Moroder and Pete Bellotte, could lay claim to being earlier trance cuts). It was Hardfloor’s ...
be found and enjoyed. ‘If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution.’ Emma Goldman, American feminist writer Styles Disco House Acid House Tribal/Progressive House Hardcore Happy Hardcore Trance Jungle Drum’n’Bass Techno Gabba Breakbeat Big Beat UK Garage US Garage Tech-House Dance Style As it is made for dancing to, dance music is characterized by a strong, ...
this new instrumental electronic music. House, hip hop, techno and electro all provided the basis for electronic music as it splintered into myriad categories and genres – with trance, progressive house, drum’n’bass, breaks, tech-house and UK garage all evolving from these electronic styles throughout the 1990s. Electronic music also became intertwined in the fabric of ...
music, Madonna worked with British musician/producer William Orbit on the ambitious Ray Of Light (1998), which restored her commercial pre-eminence. The album expertly blended pop with electronica, ambient trance and quasi-psychedelia whilst the lyrics were largely personal, with Madonna reflecting on her recent motherhood. Further collaborations with Orbit followed on Music (2000), which developed its predecessor’s shift towards ...
(DJ, remixer, b. 1963) Training as a chef, Oakenfold found his calling as a DJ and scenemaker during the acid house, Ibiza club and the later trance boom. As an in-demand club DJ he also opened for a number of rock bands including The Stone Roses and U2. He began remixing and producing under the Perfecto banner ...
(Electronica group, 1995–present) Like fellow Bristolians Massive Attack, Portishead were pioneers of the trip hop sound. Although the band – Geoff Barrow (keyboards), Beth Gibbons (vocals), Adrian Utley (guitar) and Dave MacDonald (drums) – kept a low media profile, their debut album Dummy (1996) with its laid-back, almost trance-like beats over which Gibbons sang was voted record ...
concerto Metamorphosis Of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, a twenty-first-century incarnation of the spirit of Vivaldi’s music. Roth’s Under A Dark Sky was released in 2008. Essential Recordings 1975 Scorpions: In Trance 1978 Scorpions: Taken By Force 1984 Electric Sun: Beyond The Astral Skies 2000 Solo: Transcendental Sky Guitar Personalities | Todd Rundgren | From Eclectic to Iconic | Guitar Heroes ...
catalyst, sang. Several evocative, ground-breaking hits followed, including ‘Fade To Grey’ (1980), ‘Damned Don’t Cry’ and ‘Night Train’ (both 1982). The band were important to the Ibiza trance movement of the late 1980s. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | Tom Waits | Eighties | Rock ...
Ambient music has existed since the late-nineteenth century. Although Brian Eno was the first artist to use the term ‘ambient’ to describe his music on his 1978 album, Music For Airports, composers like Claude Debussy and Erik Satie, with their notion of composing pieces to complement listening surroundings, broke with musical conventions and expectations. Frenchmen Erik Satie ...
wants to be dark,’ Sharkey exclaimed. ‘It’s about giving people the choice.’ Sharkey’s outlook on twenty-first-century hardcore underlines the pick’n’mix element evident in the latter-day scene. Mixing hard trance, gabba, acid techno and hardcore old and new, the juvenile rush of hardcore is still evident in outposts in Germany, France, Holland and Scotland, ...
such as Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley’s ‘Jack Your Body’, the freaky sounds of impersonal machine music were emphasized, their repetition attempting to offer a kind of spiritual enlightenment by encouraging trance dancing. Jacking in clubs – a kind of object-humping, jerky dance, performed as if you were plugged into the national grid – developed to these stripped-down acid tracks. ...
The phrase ‘Indian music’ is most often equated to an image of Ravi Shankar and the sitar, but there is much more to it than that. The south is the heartland of Karnatic classical music, whose history stretches back for 6,000 years. Shankar may be emblematic of Hindustani classical music, but that is a much younger style ...
In the later years of the nineteenth century, the world of black religion was in ferment. Breakaway sects began to found their own churches and followed the drift of black people from the country to the cities, resulting in the mass migrations from Southern oppression to a newer, but not always easier life in the industrialized cities of ...
and critically acclaimed Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (1997). Psychedelic rock’s most notable revival, however, occurred with the rise in popularity in the 1990s of trance, a style of dance music of which it is considered to be a forerunner. ‘The psychedelic ethic … runs through the musical mainstream in a still current. Musical ideas ...
Southeast Asian music owes much to its neighbours. Travellers, moving south from China, mixed with traders from India and Arabia. Later arrivals added to the mix; the Philippines are Spanish-American, Vietnam is French-Chinese, and Malaysia is Arabic-Chinese-Indian-Portuguese-British. Add the latest economic invasion and it’s a wonder that any unadulterated music survives. But it does. In Indonesia, Javanese ...
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