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Way back when, around the time of dance music’s infancy, electro was a big deal. A really big deal. The moment passed though, with techno and hip-hop – both of which it helped spawn – surpassing
It was a bland, bastardised version of the originators’ robotic future funk vision that got all the attention
Through the following 15 years, electro remained a plucky underdog, bubbling away in the background, with a small but fiercely dedicated fanbase. And then something strange happened. Electro came back overground again. But – predictably – it was a bland, bastardised version of the originators’ robotic future funk vision that got all the attention. Say it with me: electroclash. In the 00s, for real electro, there was nothing to do but head back underground.
(A significant – and tragic – landmark was the death in 2002 of Drexciya's James Stinson, arguably the most important and influential Electro artist of the last 20 years.)
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