Pal Secam Kids - "Kirschberg" on this great and free compilation:
Electro.
Kraftwerk invented it in the seventies. Hip hop jacked it in eighties.
Techno took it underground in the nineties. And then strange things
happened in the noughties. House and dubstep co-opted the word
"electro", shifting its meaning and confusing people. Good people.
People like YOU.
You've forgotten what real electro sounds like. But that's ok, because
we're here to remind you. Electro is the sound of robots dreaming of a
science fiction future, making machine music in their bedrooms with
pulsing drum machines, while their keytars gently bleep. OK, maybe not
so much the keytars, but probably some squelching synths, and sci fi
samples and even the occasional vocoder, all washed down with lashings
and lashings of funk.
Today, electro continues to evolve, embracing modern production
techniques and digital sound design, mutating into something so alien it
barely resembles most of today's dance music. And yet it does. It SO
does, and we have over 100 tracks that prove it, from relentless
hardcore dancefloor tracks to intricately tweaked bedroom
chin-scratchers; from melodic retro tributes to the escapist soundtrack
of science fiction futures.
So why not consider parting with the princely sum of exactly zero money
and opening your ears to the amazingly free Electro Compendium? Who
knows, you might even learn something.
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