Song elettronica
E2-E4: the hour by Manuel Göttsching that seeded house
One afternoon in 1981, an hour cut in a single take, and thirty years of dancefloors. The story of a piece made for a Walkman.
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Every week we pick tracks we love and try to tell their story. No favourite genre: you will find a bit of everything.
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Genre library
Italian Library Music in the 1970s: Soundtracks for Films Never Made
The sonorizzazioni of Piero Umiliani and Alessandro Alessandroni, made for a catalog rather than a film, became a mine for collectors and producers worldwide.
Monograph dub
King Tubby
King Tubby, the father of dub
How a Kingston sound engineer turned the mixing desk into an instrument, and invented a genre.
Genre idm
Artificial Intelligence
Warp
Artificial Intelligence: how Warp invented listening from the armchair (1992)
Genre elettronica
Japanese electronic
The machines before the music: how Japan built its electronic sound in the 1970s
Song funk
Bob James
Nautilus
Bob James's Nautilus: how an end-of-session leftover became one of hip hop's most used samples
Artist pick french-touch
Étienne de Crécy
Super Discount
Super Discount: Étienne de Crécy and the French touch seen from the control room
Monograph world
Tom Zé
Tom Ze, the engineer of Tropicalia rediscovered twenty years later