Parts of this amuse me because in the 80s here in Chicago house music is what we were dancing to, and serious dancers were everywhere. You didn’t go to the clubs to be beautiful you went to dance hardcore
I NEVER knew Techno was from Detroit I always assumed it was us in Europe started that, I knew house was from Chicago American. AMAZING, USA has started so many music genres. Blessings from London.
It doesn't start well. Right in the intro, this being a British program, Elba says that "clubbing is the most significant British cultural export". Except that those who started the British club scene, namely absolute geniuses like Tony Wilson and Rob Gretton, always freely stated that they had imported it from Detroit and New York.
This is the best documentary I've watched in a long time, not documentary, actually, history and collection of electronic music coming out of the counter-hegmonic and into the mainstream, but truly into our hearts!
I hate to admit it but I couldn't stand any of this music at the time, I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to fall in love with it now 30 years later.
It's annoying how every UK documentary, just ignores other European influences such as German, Belgian and Dutch scenes Didn't even mention Berlins love parade 😂 This docu. Is like cheese full of holes
36:58 A Called Gerald. I've had a CD from that guy from I think I bought it for maybe $5 CAD, not ever knowing who he was, but loving the sound... until this moment.
I was there in the UK fresh from my home town of Chicago. What a scene. Still happening! Could have done without seeing Jimmy Saville. He's as creepy as they come, then and now.
In chicago it was and is clubs a bit less now. From the Green Mill jazz club to the gay bathhouses this is where two kinds of music grew up. Three, jazz blues and techno, or house. We didnt call it anything just techno, then jungle came in 91 from london over new york straight to chicago. We made our own version of this too. Then the undergrand clubs filled with people from trax recording wax trax, like al jorgenson and ministry came out of my neighborhood in chicago at the same time the 80s and 90s was it here. Total creativity musically and fashion for a short time for some as some lasted forever.
Wow thats the best i have ever seen...grew up to half the music featured....as i was very into the music and scene in the 90s.....very well done thank u😍😁
You missed out on a heck of a trip then....and a different way of hearing electronic music. I know you can enjoy music without taking conscious altering substances as I did that too a period that I needed to calm down on xtc intake but there's a whole dimension to feeling music that you can't say you know about unless you've grasped it high on xtc.
Love's Theme by Barry White, Trans Euro Express by Kraftwerk, Move Your Body by Marshall Jefferson , Can You Feel It by Mister Fingers and Good Life by Inner City are 5 of the best songs, ever. Peace to King Tuby and Dub music. Peace to Frankie Knuckles Cool Documentary.
I don't know if the UK can reclaim to create a clubbing I think it was something that happened in a few global cities all at the same time FYI it started with the discotheque movement at the end of the 60s into the 70s. And their Paris was the center then moving on to New York of course with the opening of studio 54 which truly was a global phenomenon. I can agree that the UK single-handedly created the rave culture. I remember when it was important to hear to New York and they started having the first raves in closed factories in Astoria Queen.
Absolutely. What hurts is that the people who created clubbing in the UK freely admitted of importing it from New York after New Order spent some time there. As explained in this documentary: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ywqvSYCIIUM.html
Great show and was nice to watch, just seeing it now. I do not necessarily agree that with the whole US to UK back to US thing. Here in the US, techno and house was taking off in the early 90's and we had our own warehouse party scene. We also had super clubs in the 90's. I was big into the DC/Baltimore dance scene in the early 90's with clubs like Buzz & Fever and festivals after the warehouse parties started to get busted too early. It was always there, just not mainstream. Very nice show and loved that New Order was mentioned a couple of times.
GRAND ILLUSIONS AND THE VENUS, BOTH CHICAGO JUICE CLUBS IN THE EARLY 1980'S THAT PLAYED HOUSE MUSIC. THE BUZZ THEN WAS MDMA TICK OR HAPPY STICK AND PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
gets good around 40 min in. Though I am not sure all of these spots are what I would call "pivotal moments" in club history they do touch on some great points.
I really want to like this... but it just feels disjointed and superficial. Great tracks, great heads, and everything is 'right', but it's just a bit all over the place. It touches on some pivotal moments but it just feels a little shallow; the contents don't quite match the label, either.
and LA, SF, NYC and countless other US cities don't get the credit they deserve for keeping house/techno alive through the 90s. Guetta, prodigy, and William? As if pop music mattered.
The sad part is that this genre of music is; ill speak for Detroit, is it's not given airplay because of R&B & HipHop rule the airwaves. Sad that the innovators of Techno, can't get airplay in the city which they represent, although only one radio personality did, but that one wasn't enough and it was short lived. I can't speak for LA, NYC or SF.
@@soundcheck734 Mainstream radio in America has been and always will be trash. But we have the internet. I'm so jealous of DnB and Garage being mainstream radio music in the UK.
@@globaladdict once upon a time in the late 70's up until 1984, Detroit commercial radio on all genre fronts were on and popping, to include college/ public radio stations. They all simultaneously died in June of 1984. Clear Channel Commucations was the clear culprit of the demise of these Detroit based radio stations....
The most uneduceted scene in the world is in Norway.those guys have no clue how it all started..They were convicing me that techno and house were born in Iibiza..Most of them have no idea who is Juan Atkins, Kevin Sandrson, Derick May etc....the worst thing is that some of them are making living out of it...
Who cares about American mainstream tastes which is mid and small town America. The West and East coast of America and large cities in between have always been in the forefront of music culture. Too much emphasize is put into mainstream pop-music in America
Its no wonder my ADHD go hand in hand with Hard Techno.. Also grew up in Milwaukee right in between both Detroit and Chicago.. Just turned 40 and still blast HC and Gabber tracks daily!
This has great content but the packaging - poor Idris! - is a bit cringe, and it tells the story all mixed up: UK garage then M25 raves? 😂 Dance music really needs a proper documentary telling the whole history, anyone out there know one? Compared to all the stuff out there about punk and Britpop
0:10:35 Casino Club voted best disco in the world above Studio 54, yeah right. Hate me now but this video is biased and arrogant don't you think? Stealing way too much credit & glory from the NY and Chicago scene. This is just one example in the video about this. Look at that place, there aren't even any black people there! Just one. Studio 54 was black, white, straight, gay, locals, celebrities. Who the fuck are they kidding me with this. Pump Up The Volume is the best documentary on clubbing
Dude Saturday night fever was a great movie but omg was it dark , I honestly can’t believe how popular it got when the movie kids in 1995 was kind of a cult classic , and people were outraged by the film …. Lmfao
I don’t like this documentary. It’s very biased from the UK point of view. They should have interviewed more American originators not pricks like moby or Dave g. Commercial jokers
