
Beat Bang tells the story of electronic music from 1988 to today – everything from the avant-garde design of industrial techno to dance music. Discover more in this fun application available for tablets and smartphones
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Electronic music is everywhere, even where you’d least expect it, reaching a diverse audience of age groups ranging from 15 to 55. There are at least 350 electronic music festivals in this repertoire, that’s almost one a day making it the non-stop soundtrack of the world!
Beat Bang tells the story of what got us started in 1988, and which, very quickly turns into a series of interwoven stories. Everything started with a social confrontation: gruelling assembly lines, greater industrial alienation and an accelerated rhythm of production symbolised the overall growth of society transforming our lives to a far from brilliant consumerist world. Very quickly however, deindustrialisation arrives in the major American cities where the first light of this industrial rhythm had set in. The initial fast pace which brought about a trance and the promise of a fine future was followed by a tremendous decline and slower and more depressing rates. Rather than passively undergoing the fate of time, these two inseparable periods of the modern age were adapted and transformed into music. From its glory days to its hard times, the industrial beat has harnessed and been transformed by electronic equipment, and in the end has become the material for one of the most important musical adventures of the 20th century carrying, and it continues to this day
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