Disco and club dance (AoS 3 – Dance Music)
Disco – Music of 1970s Started in Clubs USA
Routes – soul, jazz, funk.
Soul - Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music (1967) – “do you like good music”
Soul – Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell "Ain't no Mountain High Enough"
Jazz- Swing from France: Django's Music - Daphne, 1940 (Paris) – Swing Style Jazz
Jazz - Duke Ellington - It don't mean a thing (1943) – More Swing Style (more advanced)
Funk - James Brown- Play that funky music white boy – James Brown funk
It was audio equipment – amps, turntables, loudspeakers, DJs made DICSO possible. No set dance moves anyone made their own. Some set moves developed to particular songs, but basically do your own thing. Strong beat 4/4 (almost always) 120 bpm catchy tunes easy to dance to Catchy tunes – hooks and riffs, bit of a tune or a word or phrase you would get to know really quickly. Verse- chorus structure with intro. Intro sets mood and grabs attention, sets mood. People sit up and listen (recognisable) Verse – same tune, diff lyrics. Chorus – same each time. Many songs verse and chorus 8 bars long each. May have “middle 8” for variety in middle of every so often. – new 8 bars new chords, lyrics. Just to keep interest. End with Outro (Coda) – diff to verse and chorus, fades out so DJ can fade in next song or talk. Jackson five-Blame it on the boogie – If this link doesn’t work, search for “blame it on the boogie”
I Will Survive – I will survive (Gloria Gaynor)
Donna Summer - Love To Love You Baby(1975) – love to love you baby (Donna Summer)
Saturday Night Fever - Night Fever (Bee Gees) – Enjoy the clip too!
Electric guitars – lead (solos tunes) and rhythm (accompaniment chords) – strings can be muted with hand so they don’t ring on giving percussive effect Bass Guitars – short riffs – no chords, single lines. Brass + strings beef up the sound. – fill in gaps between other sounds Brass is often “stabs” on off beats. Drum Machines drums, sequencers. Bass drum every crotchet beat, snare 2 and 4, hi hat off beat quavers or ever quaver – apart from fills, its the same throughout the song. Extra sounds – hand claps for example by drum machines Sequencers add loops of any sound really. Many different loops fit together on many combinations. They may be recorded specially or taken from other songs. More technology = 1980s. More acoustic = 1970s.
CLUB DANCE
Early 1990s Chicago. Took 4/4 disco beat and made it stronger. More technology, dub, Jazz, Synthpop beats added. Compare with band Kraftwerk) – They started all the Disco craze with their synthesisers and electronic music. The mainstream music industry hated them because of it.
Kraftwerk: Das Modell – Didn’t ELO cover this in English?
Kraftwerk - Antenna
Kraftwerk - Numbers
1980s, but 1990s more popular
All Night raves (illegal!) Developed own culture against rock and pop scene Recording mixing remixing techniques still used today Technology became cheaper, more people had a go. Many technologies are now available a computer plug-ins for a fraction of the cost. Big and expensive machines originally. Some music improvised and recorded live.
Definitions
House – 4/4 lots of repetition especially bass line drum machine sounds. best of house music remix!! – house music remix
Techno – 130/150 b.p.m. can be much faster. Rarely voices or live sounds. Mechanical electronic techno instrumental beat
Jungle Drum n Bass. 170 b.p.m. very strong deep bass line. Many fast disjointed back beats DJ Hype - Ready Or Not - Drum N Bass Remix
UK Garage – Ideas from Jungle. Vocal sounds used as percussion. UK Garage 18 classics in 10 minutes
Trance – V Repetitive. Echoes electronic effects Slow chord changes over fast beat. Trance like?! Trance music
Ambient – slow jazzy. Chilled, out of this word? Delerium - Angelicus (Andy Moor Full Length Mix)
Rave – fast electronic. Uses many diff songs as samples in it. Rave Music
All Club dance music uses Technology If live DJ adds extra sounds (live rap?) Same in a studio, but obviously then recorded. Praise You - Fatboy Slim
Calvin Harris another DJ
Different techniques Used Mixing - Intro to Mixing Drums – Mixing drum tracks
Scratching - Turntablist legend DJ Craze Performs – DJ Craze
Sampling - The Art Of Sampling Pt.1
Looping - Looping Around - ok not pop, but you get the idea of looping Literal Instruments Crazy in the Head Root Beer Mozart – root beer Mozart all these just show you what looping can do.
Digital Effects - Mixing Techniques for Electronic Music – good explanation of many effects.
Vocoder - Vocoder example
Quantising – getting music to fit exactly to the beat. You “snap” the music to the closest note, the value of which you choose.
Sequencing - Sequencing "Elevator Music" with Roland Fantom G – see the guy doing it.