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Are non-electronic musicians that influence electronic musicians "gods of electronic music"?

By the definition of god to mean creator we must incluce those who make electronic music possible; therefore these must be "gods of electronic music" as well. This would then include non-electronic musicians and makers/designers of electronic instruments and even programmers (guys at ableton possibly)

Just to add some more names

ASh Ra Tempel (manuel gottsching)
Klaus Schulze
Edgar Froeze (tangerine dream)
Tomita
Bruce Haack
Derrick may
Mr fingers

You have to give it up for the germans they made some far out music in the 70's and have a strong influence on electronic dance music

Chris J wrote:

lola wrote:Dont forget old jazz and r&b , without these rythems there would be no Numbers song made by Kraftwerk.

would that be classified as electronic music ?

There was no electronic music without those typical genres.
So were talking about influences right?

dj_wubwub wrote:Just to add some more names

ASh Ra Tempel (manuel gottsching)
Klaus Schulze
Edgar Froeze (tangerine dream)
Tomita
Bruce Haack
Derrick may
Mr fingers

You have to give it up for the germans they made some far out music in the 70's and have a strong influence on electronic dance music

Well i have to point to a band again, wich i named before here on this forum.
U are talking, as most people do, about german influenses, and i noticed u put kraftwerk and derrick may in the same list.

Strange thing is, that even derrick may himself says that he is influenced by kraftwerk.
But i never understood why, cuz the band kirkokos (france)(late 70's).. have a song called Life Is A Jungle, well this song has a break at 6 minutes, wich sounds almost the same as a lot of derrick may trax.

Some info about this "unknown electronic guru's" http://www.discomuseum.com/Kikrokos.html

lola wrote: But i never understood why, cuz the band kirkokos (france)(late 70's).. have a song called Life Is A Jungle, well this song has a break at 6 minutes, wich sounds almost the same as a lot of derrick may trax.

Some info about this "unknown electronic guru's" http://www.discomuseum.com/Kikrokos.html

i found a copy of that 12 in japan and it is pretty pumping techno in the middlle of an almost cheesy disco track. Wicked track though.

Trent Reznor had a lot of influence from 1990 or so forward. Wouldn't call him a "god" by any means, but he did HELP take electronic-synth pop into the darker side of things... Sure he wasn't the first, and he ripped a few off along the way, but I must say The Downward Spiral is worth mentioning on this thread... Very creative recording methods.. the Arp 2600 rocks on it too!
Wish I could take a tour of his house... all those analogs!

Mr.Haruomi Hosono, founder of Yellow Magic Orchestra, he is The One !

Amon Tobin is my current biggest influence.

spiral tribe , they are the people who got me interested in playing live electronic music at the time .

Suicide

"Suicide's albums and performances in the late 1970s and early 1980s are regarded as some of the most influential post punk recordings and helped shape the direction of indie rock, industrial music and dance music. Among others, Henry Rollins, Soft Cell, The Fleshtones, and R.E.M. have listed Suicide as one of their influences, and decades later Bruce Springsteen would unexpectedly cover them in concert (it has also been pointed out that Springsteen's "Mr State Trooper" from the "Nebraska" album is clearly influenced by Suicide)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_(band)
http://www.ink19.com/issues/january2003 ... PartI.html

The Residents

not even gonna finish reading all 4 pages and just guess that noone has mentioned Alvin Lucier.

I told you guys James Brown is the God of Electronic music. Even Kraftwerk said there influences included James Brown. lol

Chuck Norris is a punk. Just yesterday I saw him on Northern Parkway begging change. I put my car in park, got out walked up behind him and said, "Hey Chuck Norris". He turned around and before he could say anything I bitch slapped him. He started crying. I just got back in my car and left.