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by euro up north » 20 Jul 2004, 17:08
This is an intresting discussion. Everything develops, and in the dancing genre you can see a red line, and of course a lot substyles.
Here is what i think:
What we have today, already started in the middel of the 70´s (before my time though). You hade the pure disco with Donna Summer. The genre was big until the beginning of the eitghtes. After that you hade Krafwerk, Synth (Depeche mode and stuff like that), two genres that are related to much of what we hearing today, but i feel it is more like a cousin.
The "afterdisco" in the 80`s were called pop. In the early years the first hi-nrg music came. It was called Hi-nrg, but was slow, soulish, and a little bit disco at the same time.
In the middle of the 80´s there was a real italo-disco explosion. Music that definatly has a lot to do what we here today. But what really changed the world happend 1987. That was the year whan Stock aitken Waterman became famous to the world - and was the first ever musicproducers that made the music industrial. Rick Astley topped both England and USA chart of the year. Very few has done that. It made not only Rick huge, it made his writers and producers, SAW, introduced to the world. The sound were called Eurodisco. SAW are probably one of the biggest inspiraton to the music we here today. Their technic were a decade before everyone else. And they promoted themselfs as "todays sound and tomorrows tehonology."
The sound is equal to what we call the early years of eurobeat.
SAW is behind Kylie, Big Fun, Jason Donovan, Bananarama and like 40 famous artist.
They were huge in Japan.
The peak was 1989, when almost everything SAW made, hit the top, all over the world, espercially europe and asia.
Early 90´s SAW was split up, and the euromusic, was disapperad. Everyone was tired of the music.
In 93-94 a new wave of euromusic started to turn up. The so called "eurodance" It was like eurodisco, but more aggresive, and was built on a few riffs, and a nice girls voice. The middlepart were often rap and the music were huge. At almost the same time the thing we call eurobeat started to be produced in Italy, as an own style. Probably inspired of both eurodisc, eurodance, and of cours italo-disco too.
And then in late 90`s it found its speed and sound. And that is what we still here today.
Well, this is what i belive and feel. I might have wrong.
But in the euro-category you can split the music in many styles. For me there are the styles disco (70´s), eurodisco, eurodance, eurobeat and Hi-nrg.
Brother music: Italo-disco
Cousin-music: Electro, Synth
The things that is significant for the eurostyle, is the happines. That is what brings the music-styles together.