Jazz, Rock, Rap, Hip-Hop, Gospel, Country?

All of these are quite popular here in the United States and THE WORLD. but there is another form of music that you may not know much about that kids our age are dancing too:

The sources I found for this presentation come mainly from online articles found through Lexis Nexis, one book from a former Recording Industry class, a brief interview with a prestigious expert, and my experience as a techno DJ and enthusiast.

As generally accepted the official music form of techno was created in Detroit, Michigan by 3 DJ/Producers. These men, Kevin Saunderson, Derick May, and Juan Atkins were influenced and continued the sounds of 70's Disco into the early 80's. With their use of sequencer and sampler machines, the Techno style they started flourished into Europe. In this presentation I use the Term Techno broadly to describe the major forms of Electronic Music. The three major forms of Electronic Music are House, Trance, and D'n'B.

House Music was created in the early to mid-eighties by a DJ/Producer named Frankie Knuckles in Chicago, Illinois. This was new knowledge for me which I learned

The Rave scene is flourishing in America's urban centers and even finding its way to rural areas like Kansas and Missouri. Raves are held anywhere and everywhere; Warehouses, Sport Arenas, Parks, Farms, Beaches, and yes even Murfreesboro.

from a book called Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan. Frankie Knuckles found he could take common disco/dance beats, samples, and strong female vocals to create pleasing club songs. House music quickly took off in the club scene especially in the dance clubs in Chicago, New York City, and LA. House Music was named after the ware'houses' that Frankie Knuckles and other DJ's often held huge parties at. House is usually 115 -135 BPM. BPM is Beats Per Minute. Just to give you a basis: Hip-Hop and rap are usually around 85-105 BPM.

", every weekend, thousands of kids across the U.S. strap on leg-swallowing JNCO raver gear, pull on fuzzy backpacks, adorn themselves with kiddy candy jewelry and head to sports arena massive -- giant raves featuring dozens of DJs and sometimes as many as 50,000 partiers. In some parts of the country raving has become as much a rite of passage for teens as high school football games and trying to get laid at the prom. Consequently, an entire generation of Americans has grown up dancing all night and hugging strangers."

So why is Techno left on the back burner in America? This is a question that has perplexed me for several years. And I had the esteemed pleasure to ask one of my greatest hero's, Paul Oakenfold. Paul Oakenfold who is the world's most popular DJ. Worldwide he rivals Elvis as the king. Well on this brief chat with this "god" I asked him why techno wasn't popular in America. He basically said to me that the American music industry

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