90's
Star: The DJ


At the beginning of the 90's, techno achieves its maximum peak of popularity becoming the new folklore. While the bombs are falling over Sarajevo, teenagers dance techno on their discos. Chimo Bayo makes performances at crowded stadiums in Indonesia. On the whole world new projects emerge to ratify the new movement power and creativity. As Soul Mondo say in "La cancion del girasol", science and imagination hadn't never been so close. New styles come up at light speed. Techno generates in Spain (most of all in the East Valencia coast) the famous "ruta del bakalao" (bakalao route) that inspires an infinity of themes. Meanwhile, in Rotterdam the beats speed up even more, giving birth to gabber, called killer techno. On the other side, in Frankfurt and London, the dance floors are filled with psychedelia and every technohead becomes a trance and cyberdelia addict.

In Great Britain, bleeps and oscilations of low frequencies take over in Sheffield scene, the Midi Circus becomes techno Lollapalooza, and raves are macro-festivals stars. By that time, the DJs are already nomad stars in the dance scene. They are the shamans who impose their terms on the dance floors, the new gurus. Wired and Mondo 2000 the new bibles.

The hip-hop scene, lately, has seen its path crossed with techno. Since Dave "Tech" Nice's techno-rap and Downtown Science until Unique 3's bleep-rap, going through the industrial rap brought to us by Hiphoprisy or Consolidated. But two new phenomena get enough attention, that makes a good proof of how healthy this connection has ended up in. First, nowadays massive jungle techno, which supposes the continuation of SL2, Rebel MC or Ragga Twins's technoragga, the result of a fussion of the accelerated hip-hop breakbeats with dub-techniques, ragga chat and technological stuff. Second, the so called trip-hop, precedent of which should be people like Massive Attack, Sandals and even DJ Mark The 45 King, because it's a mix among instrumental hip-hop, ambient house, dub and solists more than rappers. Dust Brothers, Slo Moshum, Japanese DJ Krush, DJ Shadow and La Funk Mob (remixed by Richi Hawtin or Carl Craig, for example) are its first heralds.

Finally, in New York, underground-house has meant garage to go into rhythmic experimentation and minimalism. Its latin "version" (Masters At Work, The Boss, River Ocean or Hildegard) suposes Spaniard collaborations that have been called real state-of-the-art.

















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