Top Five Best ELECTRO Artists
This is probably THE most influential genre. What kinda music we will have without enormous Roland
TR-808 drum kick, vocoderized voice and those synthesizer leads?
The electro started somewhere in the early 1980s when some artists started to shift in their compositions from real instruments to purely electronic ones. Roland TR-808 drum machine sets up everybody on fire.
Whether its electro-influenced dance music, pop, or rock; bursting, animated synthesized sounds are of the utterly importance.
Arguably electro was there before techno and even house. Artists of late 1960s and 70s like Sly Stone, Herbie Hancock (Future Shock
), Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Norman Whitfield, George Clinton and his P Funk brigade are all contributed to the development of the electro genre, and so did the early synthesizers, hip-hop, funk and new wave. Do you remember the early European explorers of electronic music like Jean Michel Jarre, British Human League, Gary Numan and German Kraftwerk (Trans-Europe Express
) of the 1970s? Artists like Dynamix II (Just Give The DJ A Break
), Afrika Bambaataa (Planet Rock
) and Egyptian Lover (Egypt,Egypt / And My Beat Goes Boom
) of the 1980s?
After listening to the first explorers from the 70s and 80s it's really hard not to hear their influence on the artists and specific genres like Daft Punk with synth lines and vocoder treatments, drum and bass and jungle with TR-808 in there. Listen carefully to Chicago booty house, Detroit ghetto tech, Florida breaks, Baltimore club or Miami bass and you'll hear how heavy they're all relying on electro foundation.
I conducted survey through December and January on Facebook, Last.fm, Twitter, SoundCloud, MySpace and my private musician' file to find out the best Electro artists.
and here's the pooled result of that search:
Afrika Bambaataa at the top of the list.
Whodini
Warp 9
Newcleus
Time Zone
Afrika Bambaataa' Planet Rock
Real Old School here and Planet Rock is classic.
Whodini are the true pioneers of rap & hip-hop.
Warp 9 - It's A Beatwave
Newcleus: Jam on Revenge (The Wikkie Wikkie Song)
Only two albums under their belt.
Classic Jam on Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song still makes it way into DJ sets.
Time Zone - World Destruction
Time Zone is essentially Afrika Bambaataa' monicer.
World Destruction appeared at the Sopranos episode.
In total the list includes more than 50 electro (and not so electro) artists. Down the page you'll find the names of the artists who made that list.
I wanna shout huge THANK YOU to all of you who participated in this review.
If you desire to take part in the upcoming surveys, please get in touch with me HERE.
Here is the roll of artists who made it, in alpha-beta order
Afrika Bambaataa, alec empire, ayria,
Bloody Beetroots
C-Bank, combichrist, Cybotron
Danger, Davy DMX, Deadmau5, demonoid 13, Digitalism, Double Dee & Steinski, Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew, D-Train
Egyptian Lover, Evelyn "Champagne" King
Felix Da Housecat, Fever Ray, Freeez, Freestyle
G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Grum (Graeme Shepherd from Scotland)
Hashim, Herbie Hancock
John Cage, Jonzun Crew, Justice
L.L. Cool J.
M. Oizo, Malcolm McLaren & The World Famous Supreme Team, Malcolm X and Keith LeBlanc, Man Parrish, Mantronix, Medeski, martin and wood, MSTRKRFT
Newcleus, northern lite, NYC Peech Boys
Ollie & Jerry
Paul Kalkbrenner, Planet Patrol, Prodigy
Quadrant Six
Rammellzee vs K-Rob, Rocker's Revenge, Roxanne Shante, Run DMC, Russell Brothers
Simian Mobile Disco
Time Zone, Twilight 22, Tyrone Brunson
U.T.F.O.
Warp 9, West Street Mob, Whodini, wolfgang gartner
Yaz (Yazoo)
zombie girl
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