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The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

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694 points atan2 | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 18:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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gustavopezzi ◴[13 Nov 24 20:00 UTC] No.42129339[source]▶
Author here. Thanks for sharing the blog post on HN; it was a nice surprise to see it in the first page.
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samatman ◴[13 Nov 24 23:40 UTC] No.42131458[source]▶
You have gotten the history here dead wrong:

> The techno scene originated in Germany, reached the UK, and it was later associated with the Chicago & Detroit EDM scene in America.

Techno was invented in Detroit, house music in Chicago. Germany like techno. In no sense whatsoever did they invent or originate it.

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1. helboi4 ◴[14 Nov 24 16:24 UTC] No.42137784[source]▶
Honestly it's more complicated than that. At the same time that techno was being created in Detroit, EBM was being created in Germany and the UK. When techno came back over from Detroit, it as influenced by those things. So modern techno can be said to have both European and African American roots independently. I would say its more accurate to say it originated in Detroit since that is the main basis for the sound, but it is extremely transatlantic.