THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Did Pink Floyd accidentally invent techno?

Listening to On the Run from The Dark Side of the Moon this morning. Heard it many times before, but today it reached me as being - heck, I dunno. What do you think?

but it isn't Pink Floyd.

Is credited as the first techno/rave song because it incorporated all the elements for the first time, drum machine at 180 BPM, sampled vocals, repetitive keyboard/sequencer loops.

You can reasonably argue, though, that techno/rave influences go as far back as Can, Throbbing Gristle, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, and a lot of the Chicago Wax Trax! dance artists.

Is this a band of musicians from Papua New Guinea, or was there a band with that name? Right now, the only thing that comes to my mind is the album Papua New Guinea by Future Sound of London.

I'd put artists like Kraftwerk and Gary Numan on a different track, however - they were among the seminal electronic "new wave" acts that preceeded the more recent techno, industrial, and gothic/darkwave genres. Wax Trax! artists had their heyday around the same time that the first house DJs from Detroit started teaching NYC, London, Berlin, and Amsterdam the new doctrine, and I think a stronger argument can be made for their influence on modern techno.

Bill Laswell of the now-defunct Subharmonic label was also really into West African rhythms and tried to infuse them into his own forays in techno. I think he was especially interested in this one discipline whose name escapes me, but it was supposedly a darker musical style from Nigeria or Senegal or somewhere in that area that was strongly influenced by Yoruba and animist beliefs in the area.

That's who it was, the track was Papua New Guinea. Thanks.

was the first Future Sound of London single IIRC. It's an amazing track. For a real head trip find a copy of FSOL's "The Papua New Guinea Translations" CD. An entire album of reimaginings of the basic track. One of my desert island discs.

http://www.ishkur.com/music/#


this guy really put a lot of effort into this.

Served up with a little vitriolic wit, too.

I like how the site tries to cover all electronic music, from Throbbing Gristle to Delta 9, from Musique Concrete to Negativland.

"There's no other possibility..."

"One of These Days" was sort of techno in places as well, for example. :thumbsup: