A sample of genre labels within electronic dance music (one musician’s interpretation)
Donna Summer, “I Feel Love” produced by Giorgio Moroder (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8n6o-MH4Y
Giorgio Moroder, From Here to Eternity (1979)—listen for song transitions at 5:40, 7:30, 10:20, and 13:45; note the tempo of each B-side song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32SvQB6idNc
Interviews recalling drug abuse, promiscuity, and oppressed groups in disco clubs
Historian Keith Hughes on the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The first part of the video also explains the history of oppression and private clubs in the twentieth century,
On disco clubs and Bronx block parties
Kool Herc’s dance parties in the Bronx, New York City, and his unique turntable technique
Grandmaster Flash’s turntable technique
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (1981), an example of early virtuosic turntablism, recorded live without editing
Coke La Rock on the origin of rapping at Kool Herc’s parties
The origin of The Sugarhill Gang and “Rapper’s Delight” (1979)
The Sugar Hill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight” (1979)
Chic, “Good Times” (1979)
But is it all sampling/turntablism? Listen closely:
https://www.whosampled.com/sample/100/Sugarhill-Gang-Rapper%27s-Delight-Chic-Good-Times/
Composing a beat with an Akai MPC sampler/drum machine
Chemical Brothers, “Leave Home” (1995) sampling The Pharcyde, “Ya Mama” (1992)
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/16406/The-Chemical-Brothers-Leave-Home-The-Pharcyde-Ya-Mama/
Missy Elliott, “Lose Control” (2005) sampling Cybotron, “Clear” (1983)
http://www.whosampled.com/sample/218/Missy-Elliott-Ciara-Fatman-Scoop-Lose-Control-Cybotron-Clear/
On the origin of house music in Chicago
Classic beats from the Roland TR 808
The Roland TB 303—play for a minute, then skip to 11:00 to see Phuture’s Acid Tracks (1985)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQwwtjtiY4#t=5m53s
On the origin of techno music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gElNoedRj5Q#t=11m3s
Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit Techno Music (1988)—listen to the opening, then Juan Atkins’s “Techno Music” at 43:34
A 1990s style German techno rave (held in 2004)
Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk, France) performing in 1999
Not on the test but also of possible interest and relevance to upcoming assignments:
FACT Magazine’s account of the origins of several electronic dance music genre names, with examples: http://www.factmag.com/2013/07/10/the-fact-dictionary-how-dubstep-juke-cloud-rap-and-many-more-got-their-names/7/
A different side of the backlash against disco, from the perspective of musicians seeing disco as corporatizing culture and threatening musicians’ jobs
On hip hop: Remember Afrika Bambaataa?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lDCYjb8RHk
Here he is explaining how his organization was formed to steer people away from gangs and provide education in music production, dancing, graffiti and other arts, etc. as well as socio-political awareness.