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1990s Dance Music
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on August 22, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
objective, mechanical, beats, recorded, hippy, sucks, favorite, digitally, objective, rave, Chemical, absorbed, Garage, techno, history, reception
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disco at end of 1970s
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the disco movement
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rock and rollers hated disco
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it threatened many of the aspects of the aesthetic
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radio stations were changing formats
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1980s
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the fad for disco gets in many ways
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the idea of dancing music in a club
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master-minded by a DJ doesn't go away
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it's off the mainstream, not a style
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continues to be a musical practice
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continued as a club seen, went into the underground
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1990s electronic dance music
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sometimes called
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techno didn't quite replace rock and roll as some said
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the job of making electronic music work has to do with the DJ
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keep people on the dance floor dancing
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a DJ is restricted since they have to depend on what is already
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have a danceable part of a turn on two turn tables
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in the 1990s they could do it
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it takes some artistry to make it happen
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Larry Levan
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New York
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Paradise
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garage style
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Frankie Knuckles
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Chicago
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house style
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get a drum machine, add extra
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took the best bits of the records and extended them
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Belleville three
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Detroit
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Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson
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European synthesizer music like Kraftwerk
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futuristic synth style
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the beginning of techno
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1980s/1990s
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all night culture
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New York
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San Francisco
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Los Angeles
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the second summer of love
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gets transplanted to the UK
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1990s the first important records emerge
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Orbital
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Moby
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Prodigy
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United States
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The Brothers
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1997 Did Your Own Head
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The Prodigy
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1997 Fat of the Land
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Breath
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Out of Space
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Moby
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1999 Play
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a resurgence of dance music, but in a way that is less simplistic or pop-minded than say, The Twist or Saturday Night Fever
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sophisticated instead of simply using a beat so everyone can dance
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wrap up of the History of Rock course
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as time passes, our perception of the past changes
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we try to be
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try not to change the history to reflect values that we hold now
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theory
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tracks the ways things change as values change throughout history
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what may seem important at the time turns out to be less important
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and visa versa
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history does it's best work when it can look back at events with an way
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you don't want to read rock history pulling for your band
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so the 1990s are difficult since the dust hasn't settled yet
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getting into the period after 2000 is not really yet
Ideas and Concepts:
The origins of 1990s electronic dance music, via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class:
"The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo composed of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, originating in Manchester in 1989. Along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture.
The video for The Chemical Brothers' "Do It Again" is similar to that of Fatboy Slim's "Ya Mama" video, which includes a cassette tape that causes uncontrollable dancing.
Do It Again takes place in Morocco and is centered around a little boy and his older brother. The younger boy has a toothache and must have his tooth removed but he escapes with his brother, whom he begs not to let anyone take his tooth away.
Whilst walking through the desert, a cassette tape falls from the sky. The brothers get a tape player and once they hit play, the music causes them to dance uncontrollably. As they bring it back home, they see that anyone who hears the music starts dancing too.
By hitching rides on cars, motorcycles and on top of buses, they travel to a larger city into a market where they use the hypnotic music to help them acquire money from a bank. With it they fix the boy's tooth instead of pulling it out, and return home.
YouTube commentary:"When u are In iraq and everybody have autism. This clip is fucking cringe, but the music is good, finally found it now my life is complete."
"The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo composed of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, originating in Manchester in 1989. Along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture.
The video for The Chemical Brothers' "Do It Again" is similar to that of Fatboy Slim's "Ya Mama" video, which includes a cassette tape that causes uncontrollable dancing.
Do It Again takes place in Morocco and is centered around a little boy and his older brother. The younger boy has a toothache and must have his tooth removed but he escapes with his brother, whom he begs not to let anyone take his tooth away.
Whilst walking through the desert, a cassette tape falls from the sky. The brothers get a tape player and once they hit play, the music causes them to dance uncontrollably. As they bring it back home, they see that anyone who hears the music starts dancing too.
By hitching rides on cars, motorcycles and on top of buses, they travel to a larger city into a market where they use the hypnotic music to help them acquire money from a bank. With it they fix the boy's tooth instead of pulling it out, and return home.
YouTube commentary:"When u are In iraq and everybody have autism. This clip is fucking cringe, but the music is good, finally found it now my life is complete."
1990s sophisticated dance music, via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "In the 1990s, we see a resurgence of dance music, but done in a way that is a little less simplistic or pop-minded than, say, in the 1960s The Twist or 1970s Saturday Night Fever. The 1990s bands such as Moby prided themselves on being sophisticated, not in simply using a mechanical beat so everybody could dance, but creating a hipper, more cultivated expression of music that was also danceable. / YouTube comments on Moby's Honey video:This reminds me of that misunderstood sense of existence, when we are born just to die, just to do some complicated things during our long and weird life and then just disappear again, vanish in that weird something from which we were born. Like Moby in the video. He got up from the box, got somewhere weird, did some complicated things and all of these things he did in order to get back to the box. Like there's totally no sense in his existence.""
Discovered during tonight's History of Rock and Roll class, a Letter to America from 1990s electronic musician Richard Melville Hall, known as Moby, written after the 2016 national election: "america, why are you so afraid of evidence? you smoke cigarettes, naively believing they won't kill you. you eat garbage, believing it won't make you sick and obese. and now you've elected donald trump. but here are the facts:junk food makes you fat and kills you. cigarettes give you cancer. and donald trump is a racist and a misogynist who has ruined countless businesses and will be the worst president our country has ever, ever seen."
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