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Techno music came out of Detroit in the 1980’s, and carried the influences of popular electronic music of the 1970’s to the dancefloors. The music features regular, pouding beats coupled with distorted synthesized sequences.
The best known early techno producers are Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, sometimes known as the Belleville Three. They made [...]

In the world of electronica, the term trance covers a lot of territory. Some trance music, like that of Ian Van Dahl or ATB, sounds very close to pop dance music. BT and Paul Oakenfold create music that is equally at home on the dance floor, in the car, or at home on headphones. At [...]

Out of MIT comes a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music.
The Audiopad is being developed by a pair of MIT grad students, James Patten and Ben Recht. It is an application of earlier work they’ve done on new [...]