’Eurodance, cette version commerciale de la dance music apparue dans les années 90 qui a marqué toute une génération et fait encore des petits aujourd’hui…
Des origines aux premiers tubes en passant par les divers genres de l’eurodance jusqu’à l’EDM d’aujourd’hui, Histoires électroniques revient sur ce genre à la fois détesté et adoré.
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Des origines aux premiers tubes en passant par les divers genres de l’eurodance jusqu’à l’EDM d’aujourd’hui, Histoires électroniques revient sur ce genre à la fois détesté et adoré.
===SOUTENEZ LA CHAINE et téléchargez le mix Eurodance en exclusivité
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===SOURCES :
Arte TV : Pump Up The Jam, Heroes of Eurodance
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00:00Hello everyone and welcome to the electronic stories channel.
00:03who tells you about the history of electronic music and today I will tell you
00:07tell the story of eurodance eurodance this musical movement typical of the 90s which
00:14marked a whole generation that is loved and hated that gave birth to countless
00:19hits artists groups songs that are still playing today or are recycled
00:25still today but what is eurodance how was this musical movement born what are the
00:29were his influences and what has become of him today is there still eurodance today and well
00:35I hope you provide all these answers in this video, let's go.
00:39we dige dige dige bong dige bong
00:41So what is Eurodance and well
01:11Roden is a kind of electronic music that draws inspiration from what is happening in clubs and on the streets.
01:17rave parties in the early 90s and house and techno to make a less
01:22underground, more accessible, more family-friendly, more commercial, we will keep this base of music
01:28electronic but on top of that we often add voices because it sells better when
01:32there are coupled voices chorus we will call on interpreters from elsewhere a singer or singer
01:37whose name is unknown and which are more or less interchangeable with projects that will
01:41change their name over the years and few dance music artists will succeed in doing so
01:47make a name that will float we don't really know who sings or who raps on the songs it's not
01:52It doesn't matter, the important thing is to remember the piece and sing it. The principle of
01:57Eurodance, as I told you, is about extracting what's going down in a club at a given moment and getting the most out of it.
02:02substantial marrow and then repeat like that on several singles the same formula the same
02:08recipe until it runs out and then once it runs out, well, we move on to another recipe
02:12which works and yes we will think above all about the effectiveness and commercial potential of a piece
02:19before any question of artistic or musical integrity because it is above all a manufactured music
02:25made by producers we are not talking about musicians or DJs we are talking about technicians of people
02:31able to master machines capable of programming synthesizers and sequencers
02:37or computers to make pieces easily they have access to studios they are already in
02:43the music industry and therefore for them to make a piece or even make several pieces in a row
02:48Well, it's very easy, and to finish with the definition of Eurodance, we call it Euro dance.
02:54because it is a form of dance music made essentially in Europe, almost all of the
03:01Eurodance pieces come from Europe, among the main countries we find Italy and Germany.
03:06the Netherlands, Sweden, but obviously all countries will get involved
03:10the term euro has existed for several years; this prefix is often used in front of other genders
03:22musical to precisely define a music which is generally produced in Europe without distinction
03:27cultural of the country to please the greatest number, this was the case in the 80s.
03:32spoke of Euro pop to define all this pop music that comes from Europe, it's the Americans
03:37notably who used this term to define music such as kimwai or urythmics
03:41We also talked about Euro disco to talk about all this European disco production and precisely the
03:47origins of eurodance and well we will find them in the 80s and these groups of producers and two
03:53primary influences for Eurodance, first with Italo disco, Italo disco, a music
03:58electronic holy pop mass-produced by producers who put performers who
04:04moreover, they often act as extras and do not sing and pieces that copy each other
04:10others and then another huge influence besides is obviously the trio Stock and Ken Waterman at
04:29United Kingdom a trio who dominated the English charts in the 80s they have an impressive number
04:35tube and number one at the active time with a recipe which will always be the same which will be
04:41copying at will on all their hits whatever the singer, the singer is almost the same
04:47same music tempo but it works every time
04:49but that's what's going on
05:19changed once again it is the arrival of house music house music this new music
05:25made at home with easy-to-access machines where the DJ becomes not only the curator, not only
05:32the one who will introduce pieces to people but he also becomes the one who makes his own
05:37own tracks we totally disrupt the music industry the way of making music we no longer have
05:43need a band we no longer need a studio we no longer need major labels we make music
05:47music by yourself quickly by releasing maxi on maxi obviously it will give the idea to some
05:54producers who will say to themselves but listen to those who work in clubs, of course it's underground, of course
06:00It's a bit harsh sounds but it's a hit, young people love it and well why not do it?
06:05slightly easier versions that we could sell to everyone
06:08and among the first musical productions of the euro dance type, well I will quote you this
06:21which we call game changers, as the English say about marker and notable pieces
06:26markers for their time markers because they did they changed something once they
06:32came out there was a before and after and it was significant because they are cult works and the
06:37The first song I'm going to talk to you about is Ride on Time by Black Box, released in 1989.
06:43number one in the UK for weeks, it is also the best-selling single of the year.
06:47in this country 20 weeks in the top 50 in France silver disc
06:58and yes the black box launches a new recipe a background of house music of the piano and a voice a voice of
07:04disco type there which is without please obviously we will play on the sampler it will give birth to this
07:09which we'll call Italo house because it comes from Italy and lots of Italian groups will copy it
07:16or surfing on this musical style we can cite the 49ers but after we will see the double u the double d
07:21and then later in the 90s artists like Corona or Gala who are
07:26Italians and who will make more or less this type of sound, we don't call it Eurodance yet, we
07:45call it Italo house but we get very close to it and at some point we will even merge
07:51with eurodance another cult piece of the time which will change everything still in 1989 technotronic with
07:57jam pump is going to be a sound that will be copied and plundered for years and years
08:11It's a sound that draws inspiration from both techno and hip house. Hip house is a mix of hip hop.
08:17and house music but which is still a sound a little too marked urban Chicago ghetto and the
08:23technotronic are going to make a much more dance floor version of it, a danceable techno version I have
08:28dedicated an entire video to technotronic so I advise you to go see it if you want to
08:31know a little more but it is a piece that will be remixed by David Morales which will be sampled and played
08:36by the biggest house or techno DJs in the world at that time we still don't talk about
08:41rodent we have difficulty defining what technotronic is at the moment but obviously
08:46It will be extremely influential for the third significant piece of this era in 1990.
08:53snap with power
08:54naps is simply we will say the inventors of this euro denne formula this formula which will
09:08walking for years and years knowing we take a house music rhythm even if on the
09:15power we are halfway between house and hip hop we will always be inspired by the
09:20hip house but in addition to having a rapper on house music, well we're going to put some
09:25choruses sung by a singer and this winning formula rapper and singer and well
09:32This will be the formula of almost all rodent groups at the beginning of the 90s.
09:38we will see a whole bunch of groups coming along the lines of snap and who will start to
09:49copy this formula it will be the very first pieces of two unlimited get ready for this by
09:54example or the two brothers on the fourth floor
09:56and will arrive therefore
10:24many artists from groups or pieces that certainly work rather well like the
10:28pieces of rosin clark or indra but there it is a quivering but the pieces are not
10:33not taken seriously very often and are very quickly forgotten we more often have ones
10:37It's a wonder that real groups are establishing themselves, but here are two other game changers in 1992 who
10:45will change the face of Eurodance forever. It was first of all at the very beginning of 1992, Doctor.
10:51Alban with It's My Life
10:53It's My Life is certainly not Dr Alban's first single, but it's the one that will make him famous.
11:07to the whole world it is a real number one hit in many countries it will be a gold record and above all it
11:13will find the formula that will launch eurodance definitively from 92 until now
11:20Technotronic pieces from Snap or others were certainly quite commercial pieces but still
11:26very tinged with techno or house music, they remained pieces for clubbers and they stayed with me
11:32pieces that were still difficult to appreciate for the uninitiated, but now Doctor Alban is going to reverse them
11:38the process rather than making pieces of electronic music that we make a little more
11:45accessible and well he will make pop an extremely accessible piece that can be played on all
11:51radios by including elements of electronic music and reversing that, well, it changes
11:56everything can be easily hummed, it can be sung, it can be played everywhere in a center
12:01commercial at a wedding or in a nightclub and it's a hit
12:12and the same year another game changer because it will give birth to a group which will be emblematic
12:17Eurodance of those years is the no limit of everything to the emi
12:21no limit is the rapper singer formula pushed to its paroxysm we will use the tempos and the
12:34sounds of gabber and Dutch hardcore to make a more commercial version of it is the
12:40principle of eurodance with an extremely fast tempo, totally brainless music, but there you go
12:46who pleases and who, like a German doctor, will give a lineage and make a lineage
12:51and will also give another kind of eurodance we will see that just after
13:02and so from 1992 even 93 it was the explosion of eurodance with lots of groups who would stay
13:10in the annals just in 93 it is a year you will be able to listen
13:1693 is also the birth of the famous dance machine evenings which rocked an entire generation
13:41in the 90s these famous evenings broadcast on the radio and on air on m6 and it must have been
13:47fun radio I think at the time of the evenings we saw all the eurodance elite parade and
13:52dance music and then all the compilations that will follow the market is flooded with
13:57dance compilations whether it's the biggest discos in the world or dance machine
14:01or other then besides in these compilations as besides in these evenings we put a little there
14:06It's all a bit of a hodgepodge, Eurodance is a mix of groups,
14:10roam but finally we will also put in pieces of house music that are a hit like Robinès for example
14:15We're also going to put in some groove pieces of rnb and soft bass Jordi, in short we're putting in a bit of everything
14:21as long as it works and it's a hit in clubs we'll call it eurodance, the rodent
14:25It's a music that's difficult to define musically, and yes, since it takes a bit of everything that works.
14:30right to left but we will still be able to distinguish two eurodance movements which will be
14:34broadcast in parallel first of all euro house eurodance globally it is a eurodance
14:40mainly based on house music and italo house, music sung with pianos,
14:47house music rhythm
14:48and then on the other hand we had the rodent which will be inspired more by trance techno
15:12and mega rave parties, notably Mayday in Germany, with Eurodance which will accelerate
15:18with big synthesizers it is for example snap which decides to abandon hip house for
15:23to do what we will call the trans euro or the high energy euro with in the wake of
15:29groups that will fight to be the one who will make the fastest tempo as by
15:33example master boy or max
15:35Besides, if you like Eurodance, it's because the
16:05you are watching this video and know that on the official website histoire électronique.com
16:10I just uploaded a mix of about an hour of 80s eurodance.
16:17Today here is a complete mix you will be able to listen to it if you support the channel and yes
16:22only and only if you are subscribed to the site histoire électronique.com it is a way for me and
16:27It's good to fund this channel and to be able to make even more videos. Thank you for your support and see you soon.
16:34on histoire électronique.com finally at the end of the video if eurodance was a hit in those years
16:39in Europe and sometimes even in the United States, well, it's precisely because it's music
16:43extremely easy and simple that does not have all the connotations that techno had at that time and
16:49house music, the BBC for example, had censored from 91 I believe all the titles which were
16:55reference to acid or ecstasy in France, general radio stations had started to play the hits of S Express and
17:01others but little by little it was withdrawn from the movement and no longer played house music and well there we are
17:07has music that we don't worry about, popular music that is easy to sing and so we
17:12don't ask questions we can play this on the radio there is no innuendo from 95 so it is
17:18the tsunami of eurodance everyone will get into it during the year 95 5 singles in
17:24The European top 10 are Eurodance singles, so on the other hand, well, they're not the best singles.
17:30to prowl this name because until now the groups which made eurodance or at least
17:35The first groups who did Eurodance were still people who had I wanted
17:38dire background in black box electronic music was house music producers who
17:45are put to make italo house the snaps were producers of italo disco or
17:5080s sand pop culture beat was founded by an artist who made new beat and techno
17:56so we still have people who certainly seek to do things that are rather easy and rather
18:01commercial but who still have a love of electronic music still have a past
18:06in electronic music while obviously faced with all these successes and well will see the arrival of
18:11much less virtuous productions and producers who are only attracted by money
18:16electronic music is just a pretext eurodance is just a pretext to make
18:20money we have a little the worst or the best for you to see eurodance
18:25All this flood of tracks is not going to help the Eurodance brand image.
18:50Eurodance is a bit of an ugly word, it's a bit of a very esteemed genre, a genre that we
18:55qualifies as easy commercial music and it is obviously not this kind of piece which will help the
19:01music critics the music press hates eurodance obviously no one will dare you
19:05say that he likes eurodance at that time, moreover I had recently made a parallel between
19:09Eurodance and McDonald's I said that Eurodance was a bit like the fast food of electronic music
19:14because yes we find everything we want there, a bit of anything, it's not expensive, it's easy to produce but
19:19It's extremely sweet, there's lots of sauce, it drips, and obviously the real restaurants
19:24those who make real music and obviously denigrate eurodance, it's good music
19:29too easy
19:30and so little by little the term euro dance will become too overused and will disappear anyway from the
19:39musical vocabulary we will continue to do eurodance of course under other names in
19:45In the 2000s we saw the birth of trans euro trans sounds like Cascada Zache or even Et
19:51tibi and then the productions of David Guetta for example or other pieces of what we are going to
19:56sometimes called electro rise are just pieces of disguised eurodance
19:59and it will all come back in force at the end and it will all come back in force at the end
20:292000s with the advent of EDM and the advent of electronic music in the United States
20:34united the stars the big pop stars will be interested in electronic music and will make
20:40what is pop music with a dance music rhythm, the song for example we found love
20:47Rihanna's song has nothing to envy of all Rodel's songs, what I've made you listen to so far
20:52but in the 2010s, rodel became institutionalized and was absorbed by the big ones
21:04stars by the big DJs to make pieces that are always Rodel pieces but
21:09it is no longer a bad word and besides the manufacturing process is still the same we
21:14puts together several producers often 4, 5 or 6 to make hits and moreover the
21:20American stars very often call on European producers, and yes, Swedish ones in particular.
21:24French or German and yes so it's still European music but sold in the United States
21:30so it's still eurodance and what's more the circle is complete since the eurodance pieces
21:35current ones only sample the eurodance pieces of the 90s so in addition by sampling the
21:41worst of what is done in eurodance since we are going to start sampling fl 65 and tb is here and td and f what
21:48you want I'm not sure that we gained from the exchange anyway good whatever the eurodance
22:12whether it is that of the 90s or that of today still has the advantage of allowing
22:17to the greatest number of people to listen to electronic music and then why not to be interested
22:21a little further beyond the borders of Eurodance by exploring what is being done here and there
22:26or simply via the offers of digital platforms like Spotify or
22:30Deezer which will offer you titles which are more or less similar to what you listen to in
22:35general going to look more and more in the underground finally I hope that's how it works in any case
22:40but I know that many of you love 90s eurodance tracks and are fans of them
22:45of underground pieces so it's still that it worked here I hope that this video on
22:51If you liked the history of Eurodance, there are plenty of other videos on the channel dedicated to Eurodance.
22:55especially in groups like technotronics or like snap and there are other big videos dedicated to
23:00Eurodance in preparation, you will see that during the year, it will happen very soon, I hope in any case
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