Electro Funk (1982): Electro funk is the Bronx and Detroit, 1982: Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock lays Kraftwerk over a TR-808 and invents the funk of machines. Vocoders,…
Electro Hop (1983): The West Coast took up electro-funk in the mid-1980s: dry 808 drums, vocoders, breezy rap, and the block party culture of Los Angeles. Egyptian Lover and the…
Miami Bass (1986): Miami, 1985: the 808 tuned for the trunk of a car, sub bass reaching below the threshold of hearing, rising tempos, raw lyrics and sweaty parties. 2 Live Crew…
Techno Bass (1993): Techno bass is Detroit's answer to Miami bass: electro-funk hardened by the city's own techno culture, fast 808 patterns, vocoders, and a ghetto strain of…
Freestyle (1983): New York, 1983 to 1987: Latino electro funk that becomes a love song, TR-808 and DX7 under the voices of Puerto Rican and Italian American teenagers. Let the…
Latin Freestyle (1984): Latin freestyle is the explicitly Latin, Miami branch of freestyle, where clave rhythms and percussion inherited from salsa color the electro pop, running…
Detroit Electro (1985): Detroit electro emerged after techno, with Drexciya inventing an underwater mythology and a maniacally precise sound, and Dopplereffekt bringing a theoretical…
Electro (1997): Modern electro is the genre's worldwide revival from the late 1990s onward: I-F and the Hague scene in a dirty italo vein, Anthony Rother in a more Germanic…
Synth-Funk (1979): Synth funk is 1980s funk run entirely through machines: Zapp and the talkbox, Cameo and the Linn drum, Prince floating above it all as a free electron. Dry…
Electroclash (1997): New York and Berlin, 1998 to 2003: electro and italo disco replayed with punk arrogance and fashion-world irony, spoken vocals, cold sex appeal, and smeared…
Skweee (2008): Scandinavia, 2006 to 2010: a minimal, twisted synthetic funk with round, squelching basses, naive melodies and a hip hop tempo. The name comes from the…
