Thank you I always tell people this came out before Cybotron 81 ALWAYS comes before 83, the lead vocalist is my brother-in law. I introduced them at the 2001 DEMF ,with Mago Mike and stated this first as such.
I knew it. Just checking and settling arguments over here. The Electrifying MOJO was the man! I grew up listening to that guy as a kid. I think he the reason I love Prince and all things FUNKY!
thinking that one day GTA6 will come out and maybe as an intro this banger serves as an introduction perhaps with a shooter mission like only rockstars can do gives me hope
@LucasMartins-zv3oh it was in the leaks back in 2022 context: lucia standing in a bar near the beach and this plus playing in the background, but it was the dirt bombs version.
When I was about 7 my brother in the UK used to get these mixtapes of the electrifying mojo and that's where I remember hearing this. Classic that turned me on to the underground for ever more
Early '80s in Detroit burbs.....Listening to MOJO and as a high school kid this music rocked then and still rocks today! One could write a book on the good times!
Unfortunately nothing else than a fake title. Right from the beginning they copied Kraftwerk's/Ultravox' Electro-Funk and Synthpop sound. Then they started to imitate Chicago's House/Acid sound... And later in 1988/89 they tried to create something new and called it "Detroit Techno". At that time, Techno already existed worldwide. A Number of Names' '81 track is really something special...but that's the only track. There was no Techno movement at that time. And there was no Techno movement five years later... In 1986, the world was flooded by Hi-NRG, Italo-Disco, House music, Hip Hop... but no Techno.
I'm just saying that the actual word "Techno" was formed in Detroit. You have to go back a little further than the late 80's. Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Carl Craigslist, and Kevin Sanderson pioneered the Detroit techno sound in the early to mid 80's. And yes Kraftwerk are the originators of the sound. I have most of there albums.
Jack Scott For the use of the term "Techno" you have to go back to 1979. Detroit didn't invent anything. In 1981/82 the term Techno was well established. It described New Wave/Synthpop music from Europe and Japan. Even in the US it has been used in Los Angeles and Chicago to describe SynthPop/New Wave music, incl. Technopop such as Kraftwerk. Detroit's early music was Electro, not Techno. The term "Detroit Techno" didn't exist until 1988.
***** You're an idiot. Kraftwerk's work lacks the Funk/Electro/Disco/house sounds that American, specially Afro-American originated music has. Kraftwerk's stuff is nothing like this & is pure synthpop electronic classic influenced music most of the time. Techno on the other hand is very much influenced by electro/disco etc.
Help!!! My heads started bopping up and down!!! Now my feet Wont Stop Movin'!!! Whooooah, sideways... sideways!!!! Helppppp!!! Even the dog is dancin'!!! Wow, this takes me waaay back; Electrotabulous post Chicagowax.
Heard that this one Detroit dude recently dug thru the invoices at the pressing plant where they did both Shari Vari and Alleys of Your Mind -- It was still ambiguous which was recorded and/or released first.
Love this track and hate to admit that I’ve gone decades without a 12” copy in my crates. The importance and influence of pioneers such as Depeche Mode cannot be overstated when listening to/learning about the seedlings of techno and other blossoming electronic genres of the time (Speak & Spell actually came out the same year as this, 1981, but DM’s music had been circulating among djs and the underground for over a year at this point) This gem of a track is testament to that. Thanks for sharing 👍🙏
@@TheWayTheTruthTheLife_ yeah I rarely play gta 5 myself but I rem hearing this before then I remembered. The pre alpha was on gta 5 universe to test controls
awesome, 1980's chicago techno house, music was at its best in this era of time, the music producers and artists were more creative then, there was more style, uniqueness to music then, nowadays all music sounds same, rock da house, 5 stars
Now this is one hard-to-find record! Thanks for posting. Got remixed by Ectomorph and Vitalic & The Hacker in 2001. Great tunes, but I like this original one the most.
Aha, Tambian88, I take then you remember MFA, if you're in car honk your horn, or flash your headlights. If you're at home flick your porch light off, and on to let people know you're down with M.F.A. And now its time for Star Wars 45, Rick James vs Prince.
I don't get how folks call this the first techno record. If you ask them what they were making the day they made this they would not tell you techno. Back then it would have been considered new wave as it was a tune of the day like what you'd hear on WLBS. Don't go backwards and say everything electronic all of a sudden is techno. Marcus Belgrave once said some of his experimental stuff from the 70s would be considered techno (if you use this as a standard).
