The History of Unce, and all it's Unce Sub-genre's

[Chaotic_Warlord]

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

Stumbled across this site yesterday and thought I'd share, it breaks down all the different forms of electronic music from the start to current with several examples of each different genre and sub-genre with a brief history of each in a fun way.

[Otto.]

Wow. Someone put a lot of work into that. I like how you can listen to sample songs.

[Jesda]

It can trace its mainstream acceptance to the disco era. So, you techno fans are implicit Bee Gees fans.



Me, I'm an explicit Bee Gees fan.



/Just finished two music history and appreciation courses

[RCA]

I spent hours looking through this and reading the descriptions.

Very subjective but pretty good if taken with a grain of salt.

[numbnuts240]

bee gees were the s***.

[Bubba1]

IMHO, the history doesn't go back far enough. In the early 60's a gentleman named Robert Moog created an amazing instrument called the "Moog synthesizer". Moog sold #2 (he kept the original) to a brilliant British music composer/musician friend named Eric Siday, invented what was then called Electro-acoustic music.Moog and Eric paved the way for later inventions like the MIDI

My connection to this obscure stuff? Eric was a close friend of my father.

[Jesda]

I remeber pictures of it. Looked like a telephone switchboard

[Otto.]

My connection to this obscure stuff? Eric was a close friend of my father.

Wow... that's impressive.

The Moog is awesome. I love vintage synths.

[Bubba1]

I remeber pictures of it. Looked like a telephone switchboard

Yep, as a child, I used to play in Eric's studio regularly, which located in his NYC apartment, I used to make goofy sounds on that Moog while my folks chatted with Eric and his wife in the living room. He had gigantic speakers on the wall, which rattled the windows in the other rooms when I played with the lower registers. I'm sure his neighbors were not thrilled when I visited. I had no idea of the Moog's historic significance when I used it. I should try to find the link, as Eric's entire studio, including that Moog, is now on display in a museum.

[lino]

Great site

[Encryptshun]

When I was a wee lad, my dad introduced me to two albums which changed my life: "Switched-On Bach" and "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer", both by Walter Carlos, released in 1968 and 1969, respectively. Those, along with the Monkees album "Pices, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones" released in 1967 were the first to really bring the Moog into the view of the mainstream public, and all highlight the Moog's absolutely incredible abilities.

PAC&J is hands-down the best Monkees album, IMHO, and worth ten thousand listens (Pleasant Valley Sunday and Daily Nightly FTMFW).

Analog > Digital.

*runs off to listen to vintage synth-pop*

[Chaotic_Warlord]

IMHO, the history doesn't go back far enough. In the early 60's a gentleman named Robert Moog created an amazing instrument called the "Moog synthesizer". Moog sold #2 (he kept the original) to a brilliant British music composer/musician friend named Eric Siday, invented what was then called Electro-acoustic music.Moog and Eric paved the way for later inventions like the MIDI

My connection to this obscure stuff? Eric was a close friend of my father.

Actually if you read through the Tutorial on the home page it talks about the Moog at length, and if you keep going through the tutorial it goes much further back. Yeah it's all subjective and opinionated, but IMHO he actually put some truth in it all. If you go to the Downtempo section the timeline starts in the 1050's.

I'm just surprised that some of the artists and songs that I know fall into certain sub-genre's particularly in the breakbeat section. I'm a huge fan of the whole goth/industrial scene and some of the artists I like don't fall under Industrial but Futurepop and Electro-Industrial. I'm even more surprised that the whole of the goth/industrial scene falls under the Trance Genre, I would have thought it would have been in the Hardcore Genre.

[Bubba1]

When I was a wee lad, my dad introduced me to two albums which changed my life: "Switched-On Bach" and "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer", both by Walter Carlos, released in 1968 and 1969, respectively. Those, along with the Monkees album "Pices, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones" released in 1967 were the first to really bring the Moog into the view of the mainstream public, and all highlight the Moog's absolutely incredible abilities.

PAC&J is hands-down the best Monkees album, IMHO, and worth ten thousand listens (Pleasant Valley Sunday and Daily Nightly FTMFW).

Analog > Digital.

*runs off to listen to vintage synth-pop*

Hey, fellow baby boomer. I'm pretty sure I have that album too (vinyl). My sister was a big Monkees fan. I inherited her vinyls when she converted to cassette. The Monkee TV show was really dumb but the music was actually very good in its day.