The Official Pioneers List

[MARKEG]

Well let's start a real 'Pioneers' list.

Here's my own 'Pioneers of Techno' list. Start your own...

THE PIONEERS OF TECHNO:

JUAN ATKINS, DERRICK MAY, KEVIN SAUNDERSON - TECHNO
JEFF MILLS, UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE - HARD TECHNO
WOODY MCBRIDE - ACID TECHNO
CHRIS LIBERATOR - UK ACID TECHNO

There's sooooo many more - but let's hear your list!!!

:)

[rhythmtech]

pioneers of punk:

SLF (raw energetic punk)
Subhumans (musicians punk)
Crass (anarcho-punk)
Operation ivy (skater punk/ska)
Rancid (modern punk)

[rhythmtech]

was it meant to be techno only?

[The Overfiend]

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[dirty_bass]

Pioneers of techno for me.

Kraftwerk. The fathers of techno. Kilng Klang Studios 1973
Nick Turner. Co founder of Hawkwind, was playing electronic dance music (could be deemed early trance) in 1977 and was waaaay ahead of his time.
Throbbing Gristle. Industrial/Noise/General madness
SUF collective for taking something out of the dirt of the underbelly of the underground, and making it work.
SPK. Sound pioneers
Luigi Russolo. without him there would be no techno at all. The original audio pioneer.

[djfase]

Elvis presley - rock n roll

[Miromiric]

Luigi Russolo. without him there would be no techno at all. The original audio pioneer.

right on bitch

[Stodgy]

the ramones - punk


Steve Hillage (Gong/System7) - Acid/Psychadelic


And Henry for pushing dancefloor techno in directions you just don't expect

[Martin Dust]

Richard H. Kirk

[sputnik242]

Phuture/DJ Pierre

[rhythmtech]

Richard H. Kirk

james t kirk

[Darkmode]

Kraftwerk
Yello
Art of Noise

[jacques]

Pioneers of techno for me.

Kraftwerk. The fathers of techno. Kilng Klang Studios 1973


agreed.

[tocsin]

Agree with a number of those.

For hardcore, some people who shanged it up a bit and marked different direction:

D.O.A.
Speedfreak
Micropoint

[jon connor]

hard techno as we no it today

andreas kramer ( the real 1 construct rhythym)
kay d smith
alex k klatz

pure inventors .

chriss liberater lawri emersion and all stay up crew for acid techno they are the daddys total respect for these guys.

richie hawtin
dave clarke
jeff mills
ceri lekebush
adam beyer
thomas krome
henrick b

ummmmmm space djz need i say more there loads love em all anyway they all pioneers to me just like the rest u guys easy now.

[rotten]

techno - karl o'connor, anthony child and richard d. james

punk - black flag, the briefs and the sex pistols of course

ind/noise/power electronics - william bennet/phillip best, genesis p. orridge and blixa bargeld

lyrics - peter sotos

[el salvador]

here are some more pioneers, techno enhanced with some other pioneers

techno, underground resistance, fuse, beltram

punk, pistols & dead kennedys & discharge

indie rock, nine inch nails & sonic youth

classical, mozart,

goth, sisters of mercy

gangster rap, n.w.a. & public enemy

flamenco, paco de lucia

gabba, rotterdam sound sourse

schranz, adam beyer( remanipulated mix of ben simms on primate)

art, pablo picasso

psy-art, salvador dali

:toast:

[SlavikSvensk]

the pioneers of electro-acoustic music, from which electronic music derives...

pierre henri
pierre schefer
steve reich
john cage
karlheinz stockhausen

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[audioinjection]

kraftwerk

[BloodStar]

kraftwerk
same here.

[Patrick DSP]

stevie wonder, phil collins, brian eno, phillip glass, Can, Emmerson Lake & Palmer, depeche mode, skinny puppy, and nitzer ebb deserve to be on this list too.

[DJsmallpaul]

Yea deffo Kraftwerk

[davethedrummer]

kraftwerk
can
elp
hawkwind
gong , ozric tentacles
spiral tribe
vox populi bedlam , immersion and suf
r.d.f. poisoned elktric head , 200ds ,
the on u sound system , adrian sherwood
the mad professor
king tubby , lee perry
aphex twin
underground resistance (including mills of course)
cj bolland
nucleus ( wiki wiki )
afrika bambataa and the soul sonic force
grandmaster flash
al naayfish
bob moog ( good choice sam i'm with you on that )
sequential circuits for inventing midi ( yes they did)
the roland corp for inventing the vocoder ,, the jupiter 8 , tr909, tb303 etc....( and inventing sync 24 , what a load of crap!)
korg synthesizers
kenton
atari (for the 1040 st)
test department
einstuzende neubauten
warp records
plus 8 records
hart house , eye q and sven vath
joey beltram
cisco ferrera , for all his engineering at r+s
R+S records belgium
luke slater
white noise ( vigin records first ever release )
orbital
the outer limits on kiss 100 with colin dale and colin favor
carl cox
shoom club ( london '89 )
dj pierre
the zulu nation
roger linn
depeche mode
eurythmics
martin rushent and the human league ( for the album dare )
steinberg software / cubase
emagic / notator / creator / logic
soundscape ( for the first hard disk recorder ever )


all true pioneers of electronic music
and not the only ones

[The Overfiend]

Giorgio Moroder.

[The Overfiend]

I was in the Zulu Nation once upon a Bronx Tale.

[Dirtyacid]

since im not from the times of the first generation of techno dj,s my list would be the following & why:

(1) - Mark Eg - when i was nine the first music i ever heard was mark blasting acid techno , that started me on the techno path.

(2) - D.a.v.e the Drummer - contributed so much to the scene & made some of my favorite tunes.

(3) - Carl Cox - the guy is a legend say no more :eyes: