![]() ![]() In Detroit, techno resulted from the melding of African American music including disco, funk, electro, and jazz with synthesizer and electronic music by artists such as Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Along with the "Technopolis" song by Yellow Magic Orchestra, the term "technopop" was a very common term used both in Europe and Japan to denote the synthesizer pop music from the 70s. ![]() The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1979 through the introduction of the song "Technopolis" by the synthesizer "technopop" group "Yellow Magic Orchestra". The early wave of German and Detroit techno are considered as the foundation on which later techno styles were built on. During the late 80s, Techno became associated strongly with the early work done in Detroit, Michigan in the United States, also known as Detroit techno. ![]() Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM) that emerged in Germany during the early to mid to late 1980s which possesses a purely synthetic sound (with the exception of occasional vocal samples) centered around a four-to-the-floor beat and mechanically precise rhythms. ![]()
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