Underworld and Prog Bands

[BeautifulBurnout]

Argh! It's all out of sync now cos you edited your post while I was writing mine. Then I edited mine while you were adding some more. Now it looks silly! I better add to it here instead then:-

One of These Days by Floyd is, imo, one of the first ever "hard electronic dance" tracks. The beat is there. The pulsing rhythm is there. The use of sequenced, repeated riffs (albeit with a little anarchy but hey, it was the 70s). Look to Rowla or, dare I say, Kittens for a comparison.

Ditto Sheep, I would say - you can taste Moaner, Nuxx and other of the harder UW tracks when you listen to it.

Yes were particularly good at the side-long (i.e. 20-25 minute) tracks and fusions of tracks that can be directly referenced to Juanita/Kiteless/TDOL.

King Crimson for their part, as you rightly added to you post, had the marvellous Mr Fripp who pushed musical boundaries at the time, but were also able to produce beautifully-worded electronic ballads along the lines of Witness.

Emerson Lake and Palmer were, again, in the earlier days, creating long, rhythmic electronic sequences with what were relatively new tools at the time. Again, I refer the honourable gentleman to such tracks as Rowla and Monkey Wink.

Tangerine Dream is probably the least obvious example - they were much more chilled/ambient electronica even then, and more the ancestors to IDM than anything else.


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