Techno

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Techno

• by Jonas Svatos and Kata Zemankova

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Origin of techno music

• Techno was primarily developed in basement
  studios by "The Belleville Three", a cadre of
  African-American men who were attending college,
  at the time, near Detroit, Michigan. The budding
  musicians former high school friends and
  mixtape traders Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and
  Kevin Saunderson found inspiration in Midnight
  Funk Association, an eclectic, 5-hour, late-night
  radio program hosted on various Detroit radio
  stations including WCHB, WGPR, and WJLB-FM from
  1977 through the mid-1980s by DJ Charles "The
  Electrifying Mojo" Johnson. Mojo's show featured
  heavy doses of electronic sounds from the likes
  of Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine
  Dream, among others.

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Development

• In the late 1980s and early 1990s, different
  subgenres of techno music began to emerge
  including hardcore techno, an intensefied style
  typified by a fast tempo (160-300 bpm and up) and
  the rhythmic use of distorted and atonal
  industrial-like beats and samples, and ambient
  techno, with artists such as The Orb and Aphex
  Twin producing dub and ambient influenced techno
  that later had an influence on IDM and minimal
  techno artists. In the mid 1990s, acid techno
  developed, influenced by the heavy use of the
  Roland TB-303 for bass and lead sounds in the
  acid house sound. This style also went on to
  influence acid trance. Tech house music combines
  the basic structure of house music with elements
  from techno such as shorter, often distorted
  kicks, smaller hi-hats, noisier snares and more
  synthetic or acid sounding synth lines.

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Characterictics of the style

• Techno features an abundance of percussive,
  synthetic sounds, studio effects used as
  principal instrumentation, and, usually, a
  regular, 4/4 beat usually in the 130140 bpm
  rangesometimes faster, but rarely slower. Some
  techno compositions have strong melodies and bass
  lines, but these features are not as essential to
  techno as they are to other dance genres, and it
  is not uncommon for techno compositions to
  deemphasize or omit them. Techno is also very
  DJ-friendly, being mainly instrumental, and
  produced with the intention of being incorporated
  into continuous DJ sets wherein different
  compositions are played with very long,
  synchronized segues. Although several other dance
  music genres can be described in such terms,
  techno has a distinct sound that aficionados can
  pick out very easily.

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Clubs where you can go in Prague

• Cross club
• Roxy
• Boiler
• Abaton

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Cross club
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Roxy
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Abaton
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