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My feeling is that without gluing all this music together with emergent gay club culture that the similarities are superficial. House is obviously a take-off of
by AfterHIA 1y ago
My feeling is that without gluing all this music together with emergent gay club culture that the similarities are superficial. House is obviously a take-off of what Disco is trying to achieve on the dance floor but so is Parliament and James Brown ins 70's. We might as well say, "electronic music comes from black music in America" but that can't be right because of Kraftwerk and Delia Derbyshire. It wouldn't be wrong to say that George Harrison is a pioneer because of the Electronic Sound record but it all feels a bit like those blog posts that claim that Ringo Starr invented Breakbeat.
I don't think you're wrong I just think there's a, "more right position." I'm open to a plurality of views. It may be the, "real story" has to be a, "multiple perspectives thing." I'm just taken to the idea my perspective is the best.
- evanelias 1y agoSuperficial? House is literally the same four-on-the-floor beat originally created in Philly by Earl Young of The Trammps. Countless early house and techno legends say they listened to disco, sampled disco, made covers of disco songs, played disco in their DJ sets. Some key producers directly overlapped between the synth-heavy forms of disco (Italo-disco, High-NRG, Mutant Disco) and electronic dance music - for example Shep Pettibone, François K, and Material, to name just a few. I guess believe whatever you want, but everyone else listens to what the people who created electronic dance music actually said and did which puts disco as a direct core ancestor.