History-house techno electro

House, techno , electro and hip-hop musicians owe their existence to the pioneers of analog synthesizers which enabled a wizardry of sounds to exist, available at the touch of a button or key.Although many people believe house music to have originated from Donna Summer's "I Feel Love ", fully formed electronic music tracks actually came before house. Early American Sci-Fi films and the BBC Soundtrack to popular television series Doctor Who stirred a whole generation of techno music lovers like the space rock generation during the 1970s , influenced by the psychedelic music sound of the late 1960s and bands such as Pink Floyd , Soft Machine , Amon Dььl , Crazy World of Arthur Brown , and the so-called Krautrock early electronic scene (Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze ). Shunned by many as a gimmick or children's music, it was a genre similar and parallel to the Kosmische Musik scene in Germany . Space rock is characterized by the use of spatial and floating backgrounds, mantra loops, electronic sequences, and futuristic effects over Rock structures. Some of the most representative artists were Gong and Hawkwind .The late 1970s saw disco utilize the (by then) much-developed electronic sound and a limited genre emerged, appealing mainly to gay and Black audiences. In 1977, disco music crossed over into the mainstream American culture, following the popularity of hit film Saturday Night Fever and its accompanying soundtrack. As disco clubs filled there was a move to larger venues. "Paradise Garage " opened in New York in January 1978 , featuring the DJ talents of Larry Levan (1954 1992 ). Studio 54 , another New York disco club, was extremely popular. The clubs played the tunes of singers such as Diana Ross , CHIC , Gloria Gaynor , Kool & the Gang , Donna Summer , and Larry Levan's own hit, "I Got My Mind Made Up." The disco boom was short-lived. There was a backlash from Middle America , epitomised in Chicago radio DJ Steve Dahl's "Disco Demolition Night " in 1979 . Disco returned to the smaller clubs like the Warehouse in Chicago, Illinois .Opened in 1977, the Warehouse on Jefferson street in Chicago , was a key venue in the development of house music. The main DJ was Frankie Knuckles . The club staples were still the old disco tunes but the limited number of records meant that the DJ had to be a creative force, introducing more deck work to revitalize old tunes. The new mixing skills also had local airplay with the Hot Mix 5 at WBMX . The chief source of this kind of records in Chicago was the record-store imports, etc., where the term "house" was introduced as a shortening of Warehouse (as in these records are played at the Warehouse). Despite the new skills, the music was still essentially disco until the early 1980s when the first stand-alone drum machines were invented. Disco tracks could now be given an edge with the use of a mixer and drum machine. This was an added boost to the prestige of the individual DJs.In Sheffield , England the industrial band Cabaret Voltaire is often considered to have pioneered their own version of the "house sound" as early as 1981 with tracks like "automotivation". Some recordings of The Clash have also been seen in a similar light.