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- Electronic Music Culture -


Contents: 
  1. History
    1. Worldwide
    2. California 
  2. Art
  3. Communities
  4. Electronic Music Genres
  5. Viral Sightings and Comedy
  6. Associations, Research, & Journals
  7. Spirituality
  8. Learn More


The History: 

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From early mathematics, computing, audio recording, and voltage controlled analog synthesis to the avant-garde, club, and rave culture into the 21st Century:


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Prominent dates: 
  • late 1960's Disco begins
  • early 1980's 
    • Chicago house is born 
  • 1986 Run-D.M.C. covers "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith and the concept of the disc jockey as a band member and artist is known worldwide  
  • late 1980's Detroit Techno is born  


California History
(in development)

  • 1930 Henry Cowell commissions Léon Theremin to invent the Rhythmicon (also known as the Polyrhythmophone, the world's first electronic rhythm machine)
  • 1939 - John Cage manipulates records in Imaginary Landscape no. 1 and Imaginary Landscape no. 2. directly influenced by Schönberg’s serialism 
  • 1945 KCRW 89.9FM is born to train servicemen returning from World War II in a new technology they called "FM broadcasting." 
  • 1952 John Cage creates "Williams Mix" using magnetic tape recordings for source material 
  • 1962 Don Buchla creates Buchla and Associates in Berkeley, California and completes his first modular synthesizer in 1963
  • 1968 KUCI 88.9FM begins as a pirate radio station & in 1969 becomes legal and funded by UCI (University of California, Irvine)
  • 1969 Terry Riley releases "A Rainbow in Curved Air"
  • 1970s KDAY Radio is born in L.A. and later becomes the innovation gateway for Hip-Hop, R&B, and Dance Music influencing countless people. It was the first station in the world to play Hip-Hop around the clock.
  • 1976 - 1979 Synapse Magazine 
  • 1980 David Cope begins to create algorithmic compositions through programmed A.I. analysis
  • ~1980 
    • Demoscene and the use of trackers 
    • Mariah starts the Batline (the first original underground club-line)
  • mid 1980s 
    • Randy J Jacobson begins to DJ in LA
    • Barry Weaver begins to DJ in LA
  •  1985 
    • DJ Pat D begins DJ'ing and gets his first S. California gig at the After 8 dance club in Norco and a few years later Traffic Jam, 8:00 Hott Mixx and The Friday & Saturday Night Hott Mixx on 99.1 KGGI FM
    • DJ Moonpup begins DJ'ing in LA
  • 1986 
    • Doc Martin begins to DJ (S.F. to L.A.)
    • Playscool Productions is created by Todd Zweig 
    • Ice-T releases "6 'N Da Mornin' (first West Coast gangsta rap track)
  • 1987 
    • Rob Wright begins producing and then VJ'ing in 1991
    • DJ Lethal moves to Los Angeles, discovers hip-hop culture, & begins beatboxing. In1992 Begins DJ'ing & "House of Pain" with Danny Boy. He later joins Limp Bizkit and produces for Sugar Ray, Rob Zombie, DMC, Evanescence, and many others
  • 1988 
    • Jason Bentley begins at KCRW as a phone volunteer and later goes on to become a prominent DJ & Music Director of KCRW. Previously: KXLU, Afterhours on KROQ-FM, Metropolis on KCRW 
    • Rob Pointer ( Robtronik ) begins DJ'ing in San Francisco. [ Founder of Compression, Convention, Planetary Series, Boom Box and former radio DJ on Indie 103.1 FM with The Crystal Method ]
  • 1988-1999 ? Labyrinth Warehouse (first LA rave) 
  • 1989 
    • Mellinfunk begins to DJ
    • Circa (event)
  • ~ late 80's early 90's
    • Joe Vitale? starts the Sideshow Hotline & later Jen takes it over (club-line)
    • Hope Dawson starts the hopeline (club-line)
    • Ruth Nikata creates the Undergroung Source (club-line)
    • Whaddup hotline (hip-hop / Drum & Bass) (club-line)
    • Kira? creates LA Unified (club-line)
  • 1990? 
    • DJ Shadow begins DJ'ing at UC Davis on KDVS & later becomes a prominent figure in instrumental hip-hop
  • 1990 
    • Stranger Than Fiction (L.A.’s first Massive @ The Shrine Auditorium) (event)
    • Todd Zweig creates Romperoom  
  • early 1990s
    • Family Groove is born (event)
    • LA Klub Kids are born 
    • DJ Dan begins to DJ in L.A. after moving from Seattle
    • DJ Mojo (Joel Semchuck) begins DJ'ing
    • The Crystal Method / Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland move from Las Vegas to Glendale 
    • Paw Paw Patch (event)
    • Donald Glaude helps define west-coast house music
    • R.A.W. a.k.a. BBOY3000 begins to DJ
    • What? (event)
    • F.A.M.I.L.Y. (event)
    • ANDR3X creates Subliminal (event) 
    • Grape Ape at Wild Rivers water park in Irvine (event) 
    • Daven the Mad Hatter begins promoting in Orange County
    • Jamie Thinnes begins DJ'ing
    • Narnia (event)
    • The Unity Project (event - created by Rob Wright, ...) 
  • ? Taylor is the resident house DJ at Metropolis in Irvine. A lot of big DJ's play local their because of him. 
  • 1991- ~1997 Don Pits creates the Dirt Line to help connect people to the hottest events
  • 1991 - 1992 - KDLD MARS-FM is born with Swedish Egil and Freddy Snakeskin
  • 1991-1994 Peter Vincent's Rave Time Capsule 
  • 1991 
    • Jack And Jill (event)
  • 1992 
    • ET7 begins collecting vinyl and starts DJ'ing under "DJ BOOTYTRAP" in '96
    • Brian Behlendorf creates the sfraves mailing list and then Hyperreal
    • Power Tools is born (produced by Gerry Meraz and hosted by Richard Vission) on Power 106 FM  
    • DJ Trance / Jason Blakemore begins DJ'ing  
    • Thee-O begins DJ'ing  
    • Brad Moontribe begins DJ'ing 
  • 1992/93 About 17,000 people arrive at K-Rave New Years Eve at Knott's Berry Farm created by Gary Richards / DJ Destructo (event)
  • 1993 
    • Liquid Fish begins producing and then DJ'ing in 1996  
    • Riders of the Plastic Groove is born on KUCI 88.9fm by Dennis Simms
    • Moontribe is born; founded by Treavor Walton and
    • Christopher X starts raving and then moves east and begins to DJ
    • Spundae (promoter) is born
    • Insomniac Events is born
      • 1997–2010 Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC)
  • 1994 
    • F.A.M.I.L.Y. is born (events) 
    • DJ Homicide joins the band "Sugar Ray" 
  • mid 1990's
    • DJ Remo (Remo Hunt) begins DJ'ing (a fixture of Long Beach’s jungle and dubstep music scenes) 
    • Verity begins DJ'ing
  • 1995 DJ Lyfe joins the band "Incubus"(Calabasas, California)
  • ~1995 Psytribe
  • ? Green Sector
  • ? Terrakroma
  • 1996 - 1998 Groove Radio 103.1 FM 24/7 is born after running the 3 hour Groove Radio show  "Renegade Radio" on KWIZ 
  • 1996 
    • Ron D. Core creates Atomic Hardcore Recordings & then Oblivion Records (California’s first Hardcore record labels)
    • Steve Aoki creates Dim Mak records (named after his childhood hero, Bruce Lee) after running underground concerts in Southern California, Santa Barbara 
    • 96? V-Wax is born in Los Angeles (record label) 
    • The first Nocturnal Wonderland by Insomniac (event)
  • ~1997 DJ APX 1 begins DJ'ing and starts his own artist management company "Revolution"
  • 1997
    • Scott Friedel (Scott Hardkiss / God Within) is named "California's leading exponent of hard house" by Pete Tong
    • Energy Project
    • Go Ventures is born
    • Mr. Hahn joins "Linkin Park" 
  • 1998 
    • "Steamroller" event - first Hardcore / Acid / Break core event in the desert founded by DJ Nickle
    • Mellinfunk starts Mainline Records  
    • The Los Angeles Coliseum holds a public rave where they recorded up to 100,000 people
  • 1999 
    • Pedro Eustache performs Tetelestai in Irvine 
    • Desert Dwellers is formed by Amani Friend & Treavor Moontribe
    • Coachella (Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival) is born (event)
  • ~2000 first? massives by Coolworld and B3
  • 2000  
    • Munchie / Filthy Freqs begins to DJ and MC in L.A. 
    • Paul Oakenfold plays for thousands at the Cyberfest in Fresno
    • The Do LaB is born
      • Lightning in a Bottle (event)
  • 2001 Dntel (Jimmy Tamborello) releases "(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan" featuring the vocals and lyrics of Ben Gibbard who will both release "Give Up" in 2003 as The Postal Service. 
  • ~2002  
    • Droid Behavior is born 
    • Rob Pointer (Robtronic) creates Boom Box, a prominent figure in the southern California breaks scene 
    • The OC Music Awards include... ?
  • 2003 
    • John McEnary passes away (1952-2003) (performer of classical and jazz guitar, specialist in acoustic, electrical and synthesized guitars, Orange Coast College music professor)
    • Listeners are outraged after KDL, the party station, ceased to exist. For a month the station ran with no commercials or DJs and featured only the voices of listeners from phone messages left on the request line voice mail. Many of the phone messages were angry listeners yelling "You guys suck!" and "What happened to KDL the party station!" 
    • Underground Sound Productions is created by DJ Soda (Dakota) in Santa Cruz
    • Bob Motamedi begins DJ'ing 
    • Josh Billings creates Focus in Orange County (event)
  • 2004 
    • The Recording Academy (Grammy Awards) is lobbied by Jason Bentley, ? (and others) to include electronic music
    • The Crystal Method hosts a show on Indie 103.1fm  
    • Open Mike Eagle moves from Chicago to Los Angeles to join underground hip-hop scene
  • 2005  
    • Audio Science is born 
    • Rob Pointer (Robtronic) creates Compression (event) in LA & hosts many prominent techno & house producers and DJ's
  • 2007 Gary Richards / DJ Destructo creates HARD (event promoter)
  • 2008 
    • XTRNL Music is founded by Jonathan Morning
  • 2009  
    • Xavier De Enciso creates LOVEFIX (event) 
    • Rob Ponter (Robtronic) creates Convention, a three day techno festival, a first of its kind in LA
    •  Wired Events is born 
    • Groove Temple is founded by Luis Rosario and Michelle LeMay  
    • Sonny John Moore begins to perform as Skrillex in Los Angeles
  • 2011 
    • first International Gloving Championship (IGC) 
  • 2012
    • Verity creates MSR (Muzikal Spirit Research) (event promoter) 
    • Jessica Waffles creates Waffles Weekly  
    • Thee-O, Luis Rosario, and Rob Pointer (formerly known as Robtronik) create Stylus 
  • THE FUTURE
    • "Through The Looking Glass: a Journey through Los Angeles' Rave History" by Public Works Collective [an independent documentary] is released (2013-2014?)

Also see:


Art: 

 .::Visual Aesthetics in Motion::.


Dance Moves & Tutorials:

Liquid dancing, digits, popping, break-dancing, waving, glowsticking, candy walking, kanki stomping, hardstyle, shuffle, jumpstyle, hakken, x-outing, skanking, the robot, tecktonik, crip walk, rebolation, and tekstyle are just a few dance moves you will see within an electronic music culture. Try them yourself:



Freehand, Glowstringing, Misc. Articles and Tutorials


.:: Visual Aesthetics at Rest ::.

Rave & Club Flyers Archive from the 1980s - Present:
Photos: 

Magazines & e-zines: 

  • HUGE! (free print-based underground rave magazine & e-zine beginning in 1998)
  • Milwaukee's rave zine "Massive"
  • Lotus in Seattle
  • Synapse ( 1976-1979 )


Communities:

World Wide:

Local:

United Kingdom:

United States:


Communities by Genre:

Drum & Bass:
House:
IDM:
    Low-Bit / Chiptune:
    Video Game Themes:
    Hard Dance


    Happy Hardcore:
    Speedcore:


    Trance:


      Blenders:
      VJ'ing:


      Learning Electronic Music Genres: 

      Within each genre, a collective identity is formed to varying degrees, some more prominent than others. It is unfortunate when these subcultures are opposed to one another but those who are truly enlightened see the beginnings where acceptance is universally founded in technological and human discovery with genres acting only as a gateway to unfolding similarities and differences but never a means of division.


      Hyperreal: 1989 - 2000 DJ sets by genre

      Iskhur's Guide To Electronic Music

      Volterock Radio Database

      TheScientist's Guide to Electronic Music : Timeline and Styles


      TheScientist : How To Understand Electronic Dance Music

      The Evolution of Western Dance Music



      Master List of Electronic Music Genres
      • Sub-genres of: 


      Viral Sightings & Comedy: 


      • Video: 




      • Pictures: 
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      Associations & Research

      Journals


      Spirituality:

      Reading: 

      D'Andrea, Anthony. 2003. "Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa." In Rave Culture and Religion, edited by Graham St. John. New York and London: Routledge, 236-255.

      Davis, Erik. 2004. "Hedonic Tantra: Golden Goa’s Trance Transmission." In Rave Culture and Religion, edited by Graham St John. London: Routledge, 256-272.

      Gauthier, François. 2004. "Rapturous Ruptures: The ‘Instituant’ Religious Experience of Rave." In Rave Culture and Religion, edited by Graham St John. London: Routledge, 65-84.

      Gauthier, François. 2005. "Orpheus and the Underground: Raves and Implicit Religion—From Interpretation to Critique." Implicit Religion 8(3), 217-265.

      Hutson, Scott. 1999. "Technoshamanism: spiritual healing in the rave subculture." Popular Music and Society 23(3), 53-77.

      Moore, Karenza. 2009. "Exploring Emotional and Spiritual Expression amongst 'Crasher Clubbers'." In Religion and Youth, edited by S. Collins-Mayo and B. Pink-Dandelion (eds.). Aldershot: Ashgate.

      Partridge, Christopher. 2006. "The Spiritual and the Revolutionary: Alternative Spirituality, British Free Festivals and the Emergence of Rave Culture." Culture and Religion 7(1), 41-60. [view online]

      Rietveld, Hillegonda C. 2004. "Ephemeral Spirit: Sacrificial Cyborg and Soulful Community." In Rave and Religion, edited by Graham St John. London & New York: Routledge, 45 - 60. [view online]

      Rodkey, Christopher. 1999. "The Existential Notion that "God is Dead" in Industrial Music." Exordium 8, 17-27.

      St John, Graham (ed). 2004. Rave Culture and Religion. New York: Routledge.


      St John, Graham. 2006. "Electronic Dance Music Culture and Religion: An Overview." Culture and Religion 7(1), 1-26.

      Sylvan, Robin Daniel. 1998. Traces of the spirit: The religious dimensions of popular music. Ph.D. Dissertation (Religious Studies), University of California, Santa Barbara.

      Sylvan, Robin Daniel. 2002. Traces of the spirit: The religious dimensions of popular music. New York: New York University Press.

      Sylvan, Robin. 2005. Trance Formation: The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture. New York: Routledge.

      Takahashi, Melanie and Tim Olaveson. 2003. 2003. "Music, Dance and Raving Bodies: Raving as Spirituality in the Central Canadian Rave Scene." Journal of Ritual Studies 17(2), 72-96.

      Till, Rupert. 2006. "The Nine O’Clock Service: Mixing Club Culture and Postmodern Christianity”." Culture and Religion 7(1), 93-110.

      Till, Rupert. 2009. "Popular Music as Religion: from trance dancing to worshipping popular music icons." In The Quest for Spirituality and Religion / Es glaubt: Suchen nach Spiritualität und Religion, edited by Niederberger, Lukas; Müller, Lars. Baden, Switzerland: Lars Muller Publishers. [view online]

      Till, Rupert. 2009. "Possession trance ritual in electronic dance music culture: a popular ritual technology for reenchantment, addressing the crisis of the homeless self, and reinserting the individual into the community." In Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age, edited by Deacy, Chris. London: Ashgate. [view online]

      Tramacchi, Des. 2000. "Field tripping: psychedelic communitas and ritual in the Australian bush." Journal of Contemporary Religion 15(2), 201-213.

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