Member Since: 6/1/2005
Band Website: soundclick.com/deefex
Band Members: M.C.
Influences: Eric Sneo, Adam Beyer, Hertz, Jeff Mills, Carl Cox, Sven Vath, Kevin Saunderson, Thomas Krome, Mhonolink, Boriqua Tribez, Carl Falk, Glenn Wilson, Boris S, Richie Hawtin, Soul Preacher, Chris Liberator, Mike Dearborn, T-1000, Mark EG, Frankie Bones, Joey Beltram, Marco Remus, Derrick Carter, Arkus P, DJ Rush, DJ Hell, Function, Dave Clarke, The Advent, Chris Liebing, Speedy J, Mistress Barbara, Woody McBride, Anthony Rother, Kookane, Technasia, Andreas Kremer, Ken Ishii, Mauro Picotto, D.A.V.E. The Drummer, Danny Tenaglia, Bad Boy Bill, Daft Punk, Olav Basoski, Thomas Bangalter, Nine Inch Nails, Rollins Band, The Cure, U2, Janis Joplin, Cazuza, Amy Winehouse, The doors, and many others.
Sounds Like: Children On Speed.
"Techno was primarily developed by "The Belleville Three", a cadre of men who were attending college, at the time, near Detroit, Michigan. The budding musicians – former high school friends and mix tape 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."
"The computer and synthesizers music started in Germany in mid of 1970s, and became popular with a Japanese band YMO "Yellow Magic Orchestra" that was established in 1978. In the late 1980s, different subgenres of techno music began to emerge, including hardcore techno, an intensified style typified by a fast tempo (160 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 music and ambient influenced techno that later had an influence on artists dabbling in the minimal techno and what was originally techno's experimental, non-dance-oriented offshoot, IDM. Acid techno, influenced by the heavy use of the Roland TB-303 for bass and lead sounds in the style of acid house, enjoyed a surge of popularity in the mid-1980s and went on to influence acid trance. Tech house music came to prominence in the late 1990s and 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."
Type of Label: Indie