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Boogie (genre)

Index Boogie (genre)

Boogie (sometimes called post-disco) is a rhythm and blues genre of electronic dance music with close ties to the post-disco style, that first emerged in the United States during the late 1970s to mid-1980s. [1]

157 relations: A Taste of Honey (band), African Americans, Afrika Bambaataa, Arthur Baker (musician), Bass guitar, Beat (music), Blues, Boogie Oogie Oogie, Boogie Wonderland, Boogie's Gonna Getcha: '80s New York Boogie, Brit funk, Cameo (band), Canada, Carrie Lucas, Cashmere (band), Change (band), Chéri (band), Chicago, Chromeo, Clapping, Class Action (band), CMJ, Colonel Abrams, Contemporary R&B, D Train (music group), Dance, Dance music, Dayton, Ohio, Dâm-Funk, Detroit, Disco, Distributed Art Publishers, Drum kit, Drum machine, Dub music, Earth, Wind & Fire, EBay, Electro (music), Electronic dance music, Electronic music, Electronic musical instrument, Escort (band), Evelyn "Champagne" King, Feel (New York band), Four on the floor (music), François Kevorkian, Freeez, Freestyle music, Funk, Funktronica, ..., Gary Numan, George Benson, George Clinton (musician), Give Me the Night (George Benson song), Greg Wilson (DJ), Herbie Hancock, House music, Human voice, If You Want My Lovin', Imagination (band), Indie rock, James Pants, Jamiroquai, Japan, Jazz, Jazz-funk, John Benitez, Juice Aleem, Juicy (band), Kashif (musician), Keyboard instrument, Kleeer, Klein + M.B.O., Komiko, Kool & the Gang, Kraftwerk, Larry Levan, Latin percussion, Leroy Burgess, London, Los Angeles, Marcos Valle, Marvin Gaye, Mayer Hawthorne, Melba Moore, Merriam-Webster, Michael Jackson, Mike & Brenda Sutton, Miles Davis, Modulations: A History of Electronic Music, Mtume, Music genre, Music sequencer, New wave music, New York City, Newcleus, Nick Straker Band, Norman Jay, Norman Whitfield, Northern Italy, Nu-disco, Old-school hip hop, Oxford English Dictionary, Patrice Rushen, Peech Boys, Percussion instrument, Peter Shapiro (journalist), Planet Rock (song), Post-disco, Rafael Cameron, Raw Silk, Republic of Loose, Rhythm and blues, Rio de Janeiro, Rock and roll, Rockabilly, Roland TR-808, Sa-Ra, Sampler (musical instrument), Scritti Politti, Secret Weapon (group), Sexual Healing, Shalamar, Sharon Redd, She's in Control, Sinnamon, Sister Sledge, Slapping (music), Sly Stone, Sound effect, Stevie Wonder, Stones Throw Records, Synth-pop, Synthesizer, Tempo, The Gap Band, The Guardian, The Human League, The Jammers, The Limit, The S.O.S. Band, The System (band), The Whispers, Timex Social Club, Toeachizown, Toney Lee, Underground music, Unique (band), United States, Unlimited Touch, Vibe (magazine), Vicky D, Warp 9, West Street Mob, Yellow Magic Orchestra, You're the One for Me (D. Train song), Zapp (band). Expand index (107 more) »

A Taste of Honey (band)

A Taste of Honey was an American recording act, formed in 1971 by associates Janice–Marie Johnson and Perry Kibble.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa (born Lance Taylor; April 17, 1957) is an American disc jockey, singer, songwriter and producer from the South Bronx, New York.

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Arthur Baker (musician)

Arthur Baker (born April 22, 1955) is an American record producer and DJ best known for his work with hip hop artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Planet Patrol, and the British group New Order.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Beat (music)

In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Boogie Oogie Oogie

"Boogie Oogie Oogie" is a song by the American band A Taste of Honey from their 1978 self-titled debut album.

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Boogie Wonderland

"Boogie Wonderland" is a 1979 disco hit song by American R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire, featuring The Emotions.

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Boogie's Gonna Getcha: '80s New York Boogie

Boogie's Gonna Getcha: '80s New York Boogie is a compilation album in a BackBeats series released in 2010 on the Demon Music Group-sublabel BackBeats.

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Brit funk

Brit funk is a musical style that has its origins in the British music scene of the late 1970s-1980s.

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Cameo (band)

Cameo is an American soul-influenced funk group that formed in the early 1970s.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Carrie Lucas

Carrie Lucas (October 1, 1945) is an American R&B musician, born in Carmel, California.

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Cashmere (band)

Cashmere were an American music group best known for their boogie and soul hits, including "Can I" and "Do It Any Way You Wanna".

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Change (band)

Change was an Italian-American post-disco group formed in Bologna, Italy, in 1979 by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus (1949–1987) and Mauro Malavasi (born 1957).

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Chéri (band)

Chéri was a Canadian female dance music duo from Montreal, consisting of American Rosalind Milligan Hunt and Canadian Lise Cullerier.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chromeo

Chromeo is a Canadian electro-funk duo from Montreal, formed in 2002 by musicians David "Dave 1" Macklovitch and Patrick "P-Thugg" Gemayel.

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Clapping

A clap is the percussive sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals.

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Class Action (band)

Class Action and Phreek were disco and post-disco musical projects.

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CMJ

CMJ Holdings, Corp. was a music events and online media company which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published CMJ New Music Monthly.

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Colonel Abrams

Colonel Abrams (May 25, 1949 – November 24, 2016) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, dancer and actor.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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D Train (music group)

D Train was an American duo that scored several significant hits on both the Billboard Dance and R&B charts during the first half of the 1980s.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the sixth-largest city in the state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County.

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Dâm-Funk

Damon Garrett Riddick (born June 15, 1971), better known by his stage name Dâm-Funk (stylized as DāM-FunK; pronounced "Dame-Funk"), is an American funk musician, vocalist and producer from Pasadena, California.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Distributed Art Publishers

D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. is an American company that distributes and publishes books on art, photography, design, and visual culture.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Drum machine

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) is an American band that has spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, Latin, and Afro pop.

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EBay

eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electronic musical instrument

An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronic circuitry.

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Escort (band)

Escort is an American nu-disco band based out of Brooklyn, New York.

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Evelyn "Champagne" King

Evelyn "Champagne" King (born July 1, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Feel (New York band)

Feel was a New York City-based studio urban-oriented dance-pop band, active between 1982 and 1983.

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Four on the floor (music)

Four-on-the-floor (or four-to-the-floor) is a rhythm pattern used in disco and electronic dance music.

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François Kevorkian

François Kevorkian, alias François K (born 10 January 1954), is a French DJ of Armenian origin, remixer, producer and record label owner.

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Freeez

Freeez were an English electronic music group, initially known as one of the UK's main jazz-funk bands of the early 1980s.

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Freestyle music

Freestyle is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the United States in the 1980s.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Funktronica

Funktronica is a musical genre derived from the fusion of electronica and funk.

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Gary Numan

Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.

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George Benson

George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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George Clinton (musician)

George Edward Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer.

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Give Me the Night (George Benson song)

"Give Me the Night" is a song recorded by American jazz musician George Benson, which he released from his 1980 studio album of the same title.

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Greg Wilson (DJ)

Greg Wilson (born 1960) is an English DJ and producer associated with both the early 80s electro scene in Manchester and the current disco / re-edit movement.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Human voice

The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, such as talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.

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If You Want My Lovin'

"If You Want My Lovin'" is a song released by American singer Evelyn "Champagne" King.

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Imagination (band)

Imagination were an English three piece band, who came to prominence in the early 1980s.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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James Pants

James Singleton, known professionally as James Pants, is an American multi-instrumental recording artist.

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Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai are a British jazz-funk band from London, formed in 1992.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz-funk

Jazz-funk is a subgenre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat (groove), electrified sounds and an early prevalence of analog synthesizers.

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John Benitez

John Benitez (born November 7, 1957), also known as Jellybean, is an American drummer, guitarist, songwriter, DJ, remixer and music producer of Puerto Rican descent.

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Juice Aleem

Juice Aleem is a rapper from Birmingham, England.

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Juicy (band)

Juicy was an American musical duo consisting of siblings Jerry Barnes and Katreese Barnes.

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Kashif (musician)

Kashif Saleem, previously Michael Jones (December 26, 1956 – September 25, 2016), was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, record producer, artist, composer, author, director and educator from New York City.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Kleeer

Kleeer was an American New York-based funk, disco and post-disco band, which was formed in 1972 under the name The Jam Band, as a backup group to different disco bands and vocalists.

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Klein + M.B.O.

Klein + M.B.O. were an Italian Italo disco musical group formed by producers, songwriters and arrangers Mario Boncaldo (from Italy) and Tony Carrasco (from United States).

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Komiko

Komiko was a short-lived electronic music studio group signed to SAM Records, an independent label in New York City.

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Kool & the Gang

Kool & the Gang are an American band formed in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1964 by brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell, with Dennis "D.T." Thomas, Robert Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown, and Ricky West.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Larry Levan

Larry Levan (born Lawrence Philpot, July 20, 1954 – November 8, 1992) was an American DJ best known for his decade-long residency at the New York City night club Paradise Garage, which has been described as the prototype of the modern dance club.

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Latin percussion

The term Latin percussion refers to any number of a large family of musical instruments in the percussion, membranophone, lamellophone and/or idiophone family used in Latin music, which in turn is a very loosely related group of musical styles, mainly from the Latin American region, and ultimately having roots or influences in African tribal music.

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Leroy Burgess

Leroy Burgess (born August 20, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Marcos Valle

Marcos Kostenbader Valle (born 14 September 1943 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer, instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Mayer Hawthorne

Andrew Mayer Cohen (born February 2, 1979), better known by his stage name Mayer Hawthorne, is a Grammy-nominated American singer, producer, songwriter, arranger, audio engineer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California.

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Melba Moore

Beatrice Melba Hill (born October 29, 1945), known by her stage name, Melba Moore is an American singer, actress, voice actress, and entertainer.

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Merriam-Webster

Merriam–Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books which is especially known for its dictionaries.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Mike & Brenda Sutton

Mike & Brenda Sutton was an American musical duo composed of Michael B. Sutton and Brenda Sutton.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Modulations: A History of Electronic Music

Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound is a 2000 book edited by Peter Shapiro.

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Mtume

Mtume (pronounced em-tu-may) was a funk and soul group that rose to prominence during the early 1980s and had several R&B hits during its career.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control (OSC), and possibly audio and automation data for DAWs and plug-ins.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newcleus

Newcleus was an American electro and old school hip hop group that gained popularity in the early 1980s.

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Nick Straker Band

The Nick Straker Band were an English pop music group from London, England, led by musician and vocalist Nick Straker.

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Norman Jay

Norman Jay MBE (born Norman Bernard Joseph) is a British DJ.

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Norman Whitfield

Norman Jesse Whitfield (May 12, 1940 – September 16, 2008) was an American songwriter and producer, who worked with Berry Gordy's Motown labels during the 1960s.

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Northern Italy

Northern Italy (Italia settentrionale or just Nord) is a geographical region in the northern part of Italy.

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Nu-disco

Nu-disco, sometimes called disco house, which can also refer to funky house and to a style of French house, is a 21st-century dance music genre associated with a renewed interest in 1970s and 1980s US disco, early to end-1980s Italo disco and Funk, as well as other synthesizer-heavy European dance styles.

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Old-school hip hop

Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) is a term describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Patrice Rushen

Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30, 1954) is an American jazz pianist and R&B singer.

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Peech Boys

The Peech Boys, also known as the New York Citi Peech Boys or NYC Peech Boys, were a band that comprised Bernard Fowler, Steven Brown, Robert Kasper, Darryl Short, Larry Levan and Michael de Benedictus.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Peter Shapiro (journalist)

Peter Shapiro is a freelance music journalist, who has written for Spin, URB, Music Week, Uncut, Vibe, The Wire and The Times.

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Planet Rock (song)

"Planet Rock" (also known as 'Don't Stop... Planet Rock') is a 1982 song by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force.

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Post-disco

Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa late 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with an unprecedented backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in the late 1980s.

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Rafael Cameron

Rafael Cameron (born 1951) is a Guyanese American singer-songwriter best known for his boogie song "Boogie's Gonna Get Ya", which was remixed by François Kevorkian.

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Raw Silk

Raw Silk was an American dance band, originated in New York.

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Republic of Loose

Republic of Loose werehttps://twitter.com/MIKPYRO/status/499223935196889088 an Irish funk rock band from Dublin.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Roland TR-808

The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is a drum machine introduced by the Roland Corporation in 1980 and discontinued in 1983.

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Sa-Ra

Sa-Ra is an American alternative hip hop group based in Los Angeles, California, also known by its full name, The Sa-Ra Creative Partners.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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Scritti Politti

Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, by the Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside.

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Secret Weapon (group)

Secret Weapon is a New York-based R&B group formed by Jerome Prister.

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Sexual Healing

"Sexual Healing" is a song recorded by American singer Marvin Gaye from his album Midnight Love (1982).

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Shalamar

Shalamar is an American R&B and soul music vocal group, active in the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s, that was originally a disco-driven vehicle created by Soul Train booking agent Dick Griffey and show creator and producer Don Cornelius.

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Sharon Redd

Sharon Redd (October 19, 1945 – May 1, 1992) was an American singer from New York.

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She's in Control

She's in Control is the debut studio album by Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo, released on February 17, 2004 by Turbo Recordings and Vice Records.

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Sinnamon

Sinnamon was an American female R&B vocal trio, consisting of Connecticut natives Barbara Fowler, Marsha Carter, and Melissa Bell from New York City.

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Sister Sledge

Sister Sledge is an American musical vocal group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Slapping (music)

Slapping and popping are ways to produce percussive sounds on a double bass or bass guitar by bouncing strings against the fretboard.

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Sly Stone

Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943, Denton, Texas) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, a band that played a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Sound effect

A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Stones Throw Records

Stones Throw Records is an American independent record label based in Los Angeles, California.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Tempo

In musical terminology, tempo ("time" in Italian; plural: tempi) is the speed or pace of a given piece.

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The Gap Band

The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band that rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Human League

The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.

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The Jammers

Jammers were an American boogie music group led by Richie Weeks and consisting of the members of Instant Funk, Weeks & Co and various Salsoul Records acts.

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The Limit

The Limit (Later known as Oattes Van Schaik) was a 1980s musical group composed of Dutch producers Bernard Oattes and Rob van Schaik.

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The S.O.S. Band

The S.O.S. Band (sometimes written SOS Band; abbreviation for Sounds Of Success) is an American R&B and electro-funk group who gained fame in the 1980s.

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The System (band)

The System is an American synthpop duo who debuted in the 1980s, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Mic Murphy and seasoned session keyboardist David Frank.

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The Whispers

The Whispers are an American group from Los Angeles, California, who have scored hit records since the late 1960s.

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Timex Social Club

Timex Social Club was an American contemporary R&B group, formed in 1982 and best known for the 1986 hit single "Rumors".

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Toeachizown

Toeachizown is the first solo studio album by American neo-boogie musician Dâm-Funk, released on October 27, 2009 by Stones Throw Records.

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Toney Lee

Toney Lee is an American singer, songwriter and music producer, best known for his club hit "Reach Up".

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Underground music

Underground music comprises musical genres beyond mainstream culture.

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Unique (band)

Newark New Jersey Unique was a short-lived post-disco studio act from New York, best known for their crossover number "What I Got Is What You Need" released in 1983 for a well-established dance label, Prelude Records.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Unlimited Touch

Unlimited Touch was an American, New York-based post-disco group, who had some fame in the early 1980s.

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Vibe (magazine)

Vibe is an American music and entertainment magazine founded by producer Quincy Jones.

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Vicky D

Vicky “D” was a short-lived New York-based post-disco/garage house group best known for their club hit "This Beat Is Mine".

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Warp 9

Warp 9, was a science-fiction-themed electro-funk and hip hop trio, best known for its influential singles "Nunk," "Light Years Away," and "Beat Wave," which ranked among the most iconic groups of the electro hip hop era.

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West Street Mob

West Street Mob were a boogie and electro music trio, active between 1981 and 1984, best known for their 1983 song "Break Dance — Electric Boogie." The band comprised Joey Robinson, Jr., Warren Moore and singer Sabrina Gillison.

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).

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You're the One for Me (D. Train song)

"You're the One For Me" is a song written by James Williams (later known as James "D Train" Williams) and Hubert Eaves III of D. Train, a New York based post-disco duo, released in 1981 by Prelude Records.

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Zapp (band)

Zapp (also known as the Zapp Band or Zapp & Roger) is an American funk band that emerged from Dayton, Ohio, in 1977.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_(genre)

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