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Was this 1968 Finnish recording the prototypical birth of hardcore techno? [1]

['Gareth Branwyn']

Date: 2022-11-07

This fascinating video on the Electric Byway channel looks at the 1968 release of "Dance of the Anthropoids," a recording by artist, designer, instrument maker, and composer, Erikki Kurenniemi.

The video wonders if this recording can be considered proto-hardcore/speedcore techno and an important piece of techno history. The track is basically a series of machine tests at from 200 to over 600 bpm. The machine Kurenniemi was playing around with was the Andromatic, a synthesizer that he had built for Swedish composer Ralph Lundsten.

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