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At the start of the new century, the introduction of advances in technology made it possible for new sounds and new DJ styles to be developed. Pioneer DJ came to be the digital standard. Audio and Video Mixers were developed, bringing the MTV world of the 80s and 90s to the world of DJ personality of the 2000s. New technologies concentrated in ...
Nu-disco is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with the renewed interest in 1970s and early 1980s disco, [133] mid-1980s Italo disco, and the synthesizer-heavy Euro disco aesthetics. [134] The moniker appeared in print as early as 2002, and by mid-2008 was used by record shops such as the online retailers Juno and Beatport. [ 135 ]
In the pantheon of beloved disco labels, the M.F.S.B./PIR catalog is only rivaled by the string of hits released on Salsoul Records between 1978 and 1983.
By the mid-1970s, ARP was the world's largest synthesizer manufacturer, [6] though it closed in 1981. [16] Early synthesizers were monophonic, meaning they could only play one note at a time. Some of the earliest commercial polyphonic synthesizers were created by the American engineer Tom Oberheim, [10] such as the OB-X (1979). [6]
The series documented the impact that disco music had on popular culture in the 1970s. The show featured several disco innovators and people related to the culture including: Marty Angelo - Producer, Disco Step-by-Step; Charlie Anzalone - Club DJ; Maurice Brahms - Club owner, Infinity; Harry Wayne Casey - Lead singer of KC and the Sunshine Band
Hip-hop or hip hop (formerly known as disco rap) [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s in New York City. The genre is characterized by stylized rhythmic sounds—often built around disco grooves , electronic drum beats , and rapping , a percussive vocal delivery of rhymed poetic speech as consciousness-raising ...
Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) [1] is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current underground dance, pop, and electronic music, both domestic and foreign ( hi-NRG , Euro disco ) and developed into a diverse ...
Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor.He is best known for inventing the lateral-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" in British and American English) used with a gramophone.