Techno Dictionary of Electronic Music

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A&R
Abbreviations of Artist & Representation. She is the person who discovers new talents and she is in charge to guard by the satisfactory development (at economic and artistic level) of the race of a DJ or producer.

Acid
Evolution of house towards the crisp, repetitive and lysergic sounds created with apparatus TB-303 of Roland. Its symbol was the famous “Smiley�, and its inventors the Phuture group (DJ Pierre and Spanky) with the subject “Acid Trax� (published in 1987). In 1988 acid house gave rise in Great Britain to the denominated Summer of the Love. Damon Wild and Hardfloor were the flagmen of the sound post-acid in the middle of the ninety, and it is already close the day in which there is a revival in all rule.

Acid-jazz
At the time at which acid-house was developed, it took place a recovery of the sound funk of the 70 through esthetic the modern although revisionist. To the phenomenon acid was called to him jazz, and is one of the sorts that the ascent made possible of the denominated culture of club.

After
Also denominated after-hours: celebration that is developed after a session of normal schedule or after one rave. Usually it lasts from the dawn to the dusk.

AIFF
The standard format for documents of audio in the Macintosh surroundings. Their abbreviations correspond to the words Audio Interchange File Format. It allows to store data of audio in an ample variety of resolutions, compressions and formats. Its equivalent in Windows is the Wav.

Isolationism
Dangerous incarnation of ambient in the middle of the ninety. But against the escapism and the expansive character of ambient traditional, the isolationism chose to deepen in the inner abysses, in the painful textures. Kevin Martin, of Techno Animal, invented the label, and Scorn, Jim O´Rourke or the ideologist David Toop some of which more they were in favor decided his.

Akai
Very famous mark in the world of techno thanks to its apparatuses of series S.

Ambient
Climatic music, relaxed, atmospheric and evocative that affects the depth and the open spaces. One is based on the superposition of sounds and synthetic layers and his unquestionable inventor was Brian Eno. Nothing that to see with new age.

Ambient dub
Mixture of sound ambient with the echoes and the effects dub of Jamaican music. Surrounding music. The Orb is teachers of the style.

Artcore
Name that the most experimental tendency receives and ambient of jungle. Intelligent has also been called him jungle. LTJ Bukem and Omni Trio have been the great figures of the sort.

Atari
Mark of apparatuses that allowed everybody, before the popularization of the programs of edition and the portable ones, to be able to do music in house using computers that integrated interface MIDI. Its introduction in the musical world meant a return to the philosophy of the “Do It Yourself� (Hazlo you yourself) praised by the punk. The Atari mark has given even name to several electronic projects, like Atari Teenage Riot.

 

 

  

TO B C D AND F G H I J K L M N OR P Q R S T OR V W X AND Z

 

 

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