History
Following the decline of disco music in the late 1970s, various funk artists such as Zapp & Roger began experimenting with talk boxes and the use of heavier, more distinctive beats. Electro eventually emerged as a fusion of different styles, including funk and disco combined with German and Japanese electropop, in addition to influences from the futurism of Alvin Toffler, martial arts films, and video game music. The genre's immediate forebearers included Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO), and Gary Numan. An important precursor to the genre was Cat Stevens' "Was Dog a Doughnut" in 1977.
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Cat Stevens - "Was Dog a Doughnut?" (1977)
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Short sample of "Was Dog a Doughnut?" from Cat Stevens' 1977 album Izitso. It was a precursor to the electro genre. Read more about this topic: Electro (music) Famous quotes containing the word history:“Spain is an overflow of sombreness ... a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.” “The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.” “The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.” |