electro

electro
   Electro was a musical genre which peaked in polarity around 1982–3. A sub-genre of hip hop, electro differed in using synthesized electronic music rather than samples of old soul or funk records. As well as hip hop, electro drew influences from electronic groups, both ‘serious’, such as Kraftwerk, and ‘commercial’, such as The Human League, fusing their sound with the more basic beeps, thuds and tinny melodies of early computer games. Those same computer games often provided imagery for electro songs (for example, The Jonzun Crew’s ‘PackJam’ was originally called ‘Pac Man’), while another influence was cartoons (for example, ‘Smurf For What It’s Worth’ by The Smurfs), a thematic inheritance from P-Funk. This led to electro being primarily juvenile and escapist (not necessarily a bad thing), although there were powerful political electro records, such as ‘No Sell Out’, which mixed Keith LeBlanc’s digital rhythms with extracts from recordings of Malcom X.
   SIMON BOTTOM

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