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Electronic Dance Music (EDM), also known as Dance Music, Club Music, House Music, Techno, and a variety of other genres that are a part of the broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals. It is created by Producers and by DJs who create seamless mixes that are selections of tracks, by transitioning from one recording to another and matching the beat patterns. EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or festival setting in that is sometimes called a live DJ Mix, DJ Set or a PA. We have created this lesson plan as a part of our Detroit Techno 101 Curriculum and it is called an Introduction to EDM Songwriting using TR-808 and TR-303 Emulators. It’s designed to help teachers to explore the EDM genres and the structure of song. Our goals is to enable more teachers to integrate music education on subjects of interest to modern teens at the Middle School or High School (9th-12th) levels but anyone can explore the process used to create an EDM song if you have ever wanted to create your own track. Here are the lesson’s objectives and the free materials you can […]

Students learn about film, music genres, world cultures, drum machines, and how to program beats using Roland Drum Machines.

The Tribeca Festival has returned in 2022 offering a indie and feature film slate filled with a diverse group of music film offerings.

The new JYP group called NMIXX debuts

An informational/educational stream featuring MEMCO’s Techno & Resistance Symposium, Filmmaker panel, ‘Detroit Techno 101’ lesson, and Detroit DJs.

 Launched in the summer of 2016, YG Entertainment’s flagship girl band BLACKPINK is nothing short of an utter (and international) phenomenon. After releasing their first album (called “The Album”), their first full-length documentary (Netflix’s “Light Up The Sky”), and their first virtual concert “The Show”, which was virtually attended by over 250,000 of their most diehard fans exclusively on Youtube last January, the BLACKPINK name and franchise has become a juggernaut in their native South Korea and Hollywood, too. But fortunately for us, their “firsts” aren’t stopping there anytime soon. Following fellow member Jennie Kim’s triumphant 2018 excursion, the quartet’s lead vocalist and bombshell Roseanne “Rosé” Park digitally unveiled her inaugural solo project the aptly-titled “R” on Friday, March 12th, 2021.  Two years in the making, “R” features double singles “On The Ground”, a gutsy but sugary sweet Pop anthem based around the 24-year-old’s tumultuous journey towards womanhood, and “Gone”, a stirring, guitar-driven look at Park’s sizable experience with romantic heartbreak. Coming in with upwards of 400,000+ physical pre-orders, both breaking and setting a record for Korean female artists, “R’’ was an immediate and astounding commercial and critical success. Succeeding a well-received set of premieres on SBS music show Inkigayo over […]

Get to know Meet Me @ The Altar, a group gearing up to grab the alternative music and rock spotlight

BBE Music just dropped a special 20th Anniversary edition of one of the most important records in the label’s history: J Dilla’s Welcome 2 Detroit

Learn about the upcoming artist and social media influencer Stephanie Poetri

Since opening their doors for the first time in the year 1995, South Korea’s SM Entertainment has always had rather grandiose musical ambitions. Home to dozens of acts of varying sizes, concepts, generations and sub-types, the label’s roster has essentially taken on a life of its own and a quarter-century later, SME is pushing said life to all new digital limits. Comprised of members Karina, Winter, Giselle and Ningning, aespa (whose name is a combination of English words avatar, experience and aspect), weren’t just intended to be a top-tier global idol group but a window into the fledgling frontiers of both virtual and augmented reality. Equipped with computer-generated or more specifically artificially-intelligent and interactive versions of themselves collectively called avatars or ‘’æ’’, Karina, Winter, Giselle and Ningning are anticipated to be the hi-tech muse and creators of content and story-telling the likes of which the entertainment industry and perhaps larger world has never before seen, encountered or heard and SME’s confidence in the quartet already seems to be paying off big time.   Their first single “Black Mamba” (which tells of a vague snake-like evil serving as an in-realm threat to the human and AI members of aespa) was released […]

View the trailor and learn about the TechnoMecca project, and the film God Said Give Em Drum Machines.

The annual Latin Grammy Awards are watched by millions across the globe each year, the ceremony is a celebration of all things, Música Latina. Find out who else is nominated for the 21st Latin GRAMMYs Awards coming Nov. 19 2020

Learn more about the musical genre Emo-Girl-Pop, and Maisie Peters who has been called the “First Lady of Emo-Girl-Pop”.

The Music Origins God Said give Em’ Drum Machines team in cooperation with the Michigan Electronic Music Collective is streaming an Electronic Music charity event in support of the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Learn about the origins of Funk Carioca its long history and how it moved from Favaleas of Brazil to the mainstream.

Learn about the origin of Britpop, its characteristics and key representatives, including Coldplay, Oasis, Radiohead and others.

Trace rise and fall of Hip hop from the golden era into current times.

Music has come a long way from where it started in the late 1800s, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph round August 12, 1877. It was stated that during his research he gave birth to the sound processing devices called gramophones. From then to fast forwarding to now things change from equipment, genres of music, and how music is distributed. Which leads me to researching on how the emerging genre of Trap Music started. What Is Trap Music? Trap Music is a genre of music that started in the South in the early 1990s, and continues to grow in various areas some places more than others but its stamped. As mentioned on the Music Origins Project Site Trap Music is defined as, aggressive lyrical content and sound, where the instrumentals are propelled by 808 kick drums or heavy extended sub-bass lines, double-time, triple-time and other faster time division hi-hats, layered synthesizers, and “cinematic” strings. I agree it definitely has its own sound, and the artists have their own style which brings you into their world. By being in the trap music world, it brings you to more of a visual on what’s being scene in neighborhoods across America. To bring Trap […]

Des-pa-cito… Is the song that got the world obsessed with Reggaeton The hit from 2017, took the world by storm and represented a pinnacle attained by a relatively new genre.  The song that topped all the charts around the world. And, to everyone’s surprise, it wasn’t an English composition, but a Latin one! The first and the only one Spanish-language track in the history of Latin music which had become such a huge success all over the world. Basically, this very song started the total popularisation of reggaeton. Although, it became popular in the United States and Europe already in 2004. Today everyone knows J Balvin, the first Latin artist who could conquer American audience. This year he has become the first Latin headliner at all key music festivals in the United States. Daddy Yankee, Karol G, Nicky Jam, Ozuna, Don Omar, Becky G, CNCO, Maluma…. The list is pretty huge. But not everyone knows how this genre was created. So, below you can get familiar with some history of this amazing music movement which is becoming more and more popular in the whole world. Many believe DJ Nelson, Puerto  Rican DJ and record producer created the term “reggaeton” In 1995, […]

Explore the origins of the term ‘post-rock’ and the style’s key groups. The genre borrows from many different styles including techno, jazz, krautrock, dub reggae, electronica and musique concrete.

Joao Gilberto was the musical innovator who defined the music style of Bossa Nova for the world.

The Tribeca Film Festival’s Virtual Arcade, and the Tribeca Cinema360, were an extraordinary experience. The Tribeca Immersive banner were very strong this year and the offerings did not disappoint. This year the event was presented by AT&T and viewers who came to the Virtual Arcade encountered some of the most intriguing VR, AR and MR experiences and exhibits yet. from new and established artists, while the Tribeca Cinema360 features 12 curated screenings in a custom VR theater. The musicianship of Yo-Yo Ma is featured in “Into the Light,” a AR experience in which he plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor.” The interactive musical piece was developed specifically to unfold on site at the Virtual Arcade at the Tribeca Hub. It unfolds over multiple floors, it begins when you are placed into a group of 6 or so participants at the starting point. Each group member is provided with a mobile phone and a set of Bose AR enabled headphones. You then point your devices camera at a marker at station one and a audio track is triggered along with a AR visualization of the music that is being played. You are then taken from […]