Also see The History of Tape Looping[1], which starts in the 1940s, though you can definitely take the roots of electronic music back much further. While only

Also see The History of Tape Looping[1], which starts in the 1940s, though you can definitely take the roots of electronic music back much further. While only briefly mentioned in the above history, here's Steve Reich, in a piece he made in a 1966 piece called Come Out[2][3], which definitely has the seeds of repetitive electronic music like techno (it's pretty long, I recommend starting about 9'27" in if you don't want to listen to the whole thing). Though it couldn't be mistaken for a full techno track, I would not be at all surprised to hear something like a portion of that in a lot of electronic music today, almost 60 years later. It sounds a lot more modern than Kraftwerk, anyway. And here[4] is Delia Derbyshire's[5] Dr Who rendition from 1963... a fully realized electronic dance track, also long, long before Kraftwerk. [1] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Y8t10LMuk https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Y8t10LMuk [2] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g0WVh1D0N50 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g0WVh1D0N50 [3] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Out_(Reich) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_Out_(Reich) [4] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CM8uBGANASc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CM8uBGANASc [5] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia_Derbyshire