KVR Audio

TVD · Post by **TVD** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:57 pm

BTW, I'm black myself!

And this is a serious question.

Is there any black people (KVR members included) that are producing, composing, or programming electro, house, breakbeat, downtempo, techno, D&B, or (my least favorite genre) trance?

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:01 pm

Im white but you ever wonder about this?: In the uk most D&B producers are black and the DJ's are white, when in the US the producers are white and the DJ's tend to be black.

Wierd, aye?

netsound · Post by **netsound** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:06 pm

Chase: Generalizes!

glaucomys · Post by **glaucomys** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:06 pm

Never paid attention...

WillieJenkins · Post by **WillieJenkins** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:08 pm

HOUSE MUSIC HERE! vaguely interested in breakbeat / downtempo

WillieJenkins · Post by **WillieJenkins** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:10 pm

I've often wondered how many kvrians were black tho

I actually am half-germanic (swedish, german, norwegian) and half-african american btw

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:11 pm

house and techno were invented by black people.

one example: Frankie Knuckles, DJ at the warehouse club in chicago(late 70's-early 80's) , started adding sequenced drum machine loops over late disco/early proto-house songs creating a "harder disco" sound which soon became known as house music.

"warehouse club"-"house music" get it?

he then moved to NYC and the rest is history.

There are some really great proto-house songs that have always been pretty underground. heres a couple of my favorites:

Rude movements
http://turntablelab.com/real2/funkinthe ... vement.ram

Love money-perverted disco at its finest
http://turntablelab.com/real2/funkinthe ... emoney.ram

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:15 pm

soulkraka wrote:house and techno were invented by black people.

Ah yes, but it needed whitey to turn them into the artform that is tarnce.

soulkraka · Post by **soulkraka** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:15 pm

Heres another cool track that has recently been re-edited and re-released.

the galaxy

http://turntablelab.com/real2/funkinthe ... ed-rmx.ram

The Chase · Post by **The Chase** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:17 pm

netsound wrote:Chase: Generalizes!

There's bad and then effectless generalizing.

Left Headphone · Post by **Left Headphone** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:20 pm

I'm trying, but I suck. I'll stick to hip-pop and R&B for now.

McLilith · Post by **McLilith** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:35 pm

soulkraka wrote:house and techno were invented by black people.

Inventing house sounds likely, but techno? Can you explain how that happened? I really don't know its early history, to be honest. Please, tell me more.

thanks,
McLilith

Highvoltage · Post by **Highvoltage** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:44 pm

Check out Maxim from the prodigy. he has some wild big-beat shit going on i love. offcourse you can feel Liam's hand in it...

3*s · Post by **3*s** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:44 pm

YUO SHOD LIOSTEN TOO ISHKUR HE NOS TEH HOUSE MUSAC HISTORYS!!!!!!

Garage
aka New York House

Around the same time that gay black people were inventing House in Chicago, gay black people were inventing Garage in New York. It makes you wonder if gay black people in other cities weren't doing similar things, like maybe 'Shack' in Indianapolis, or 'Toolshed' in Des Moines, or the uptempo, swanky, soulful 'Apartment Complex' coming out of Cleveland's urban underground. Where House brings the funk, Garage brings the soul, as it sounds more organic and 'disco-y'. Scientists have still yet been able to figure out what makes its spin-off genres 2-step/UK and that godawful 'speed' stuff actual Garage, since they've both been disowned from conception.

HE NOS HIS STUFF!!!!!!!!

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:46 pm

McLilith wrote:
soulkraka wrote:house and techno were invented by black people.
Inventing house sounds likely, but techno? Can you explain how that happened? I really don't know its early history, to be honest. Please, tell me more.

thanks,
McLilith

Ishkur's yer man. Often factually suspect, usually entertaining.

edit:- Sorry 3*s. You got there first.

Any Black People Making Electronic Music (Beside Hip-Hop)?