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Originally Posted by galama
Funk music migrated towards disco/dance and this style has the elements of dance music.
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so back to electronic music with beats..
i don't think 'autobahn' counts..
but 'trans-europe express' does..
and that came out in 1977 ... way before 1983 and blue monday..
but as much as those songs were hits.. i don't think they would
count as 'dance' music.. although 'trans-europe express' was sampled
a lot later on by other groups.
i would qualify a lot of 'man-machine' from 1978 as 'dance'...
but then again, kraftwerk was experimenting with electronic music
since the late 60's, as were a lot of other groups..
but they were more experimental in nature, and i don't think
they were ever aiming to make it 'dance' music, people just adopted
it as such..
back to 'trans europe express', in 1977 the song 'showroom dummies',
they deadpanned the lyrics.
We go into a club
And there we start to dance
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies
We are showroom dummies
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so in way they were foretelling their possible influence..
[as you can tell, i'm a big kraftwerk fan]..
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