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Southern Sun
I decide to open this thread to discuss the trends in European music and its character in general. What we consider today to be classical music has its roots in Europe and the vast majority of composers were European. The rock movement as well seems to have heavy European undertones, U2, Oasis Rolling Stones, and not to mention the Beatles. Europe seems to be the craddle of pop as well, spice girls, take that, backstreet boys ( they were originally musically grown in Europe before moving back to the US). Conversely 90's dance had heavy european influences, la bouche, dr. Alban and many more. And now to electronica. Europe seems to reign supreme in this area after classical music. The world's best DJ's are European. Dj Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, ATB and many many many more. Electronica ( using this as general term for house, dance, trance, techno and what not) also sprung in Europe with Bands such as depeche mode and continues to this day with bands such as Daft Punk, Goldfrapp and so forth. Though Europe lacks behind in the hip hop/rnb ( the urban music ) sphere if you will it seems to have the top seat in other genres though arguably the music industry today is under the dominion of US media giants, Warner, Universal and not to mention MTV. Also europe seems to be the first to come up with new genres or experiment more ....any ideas on why that is? Does Europe have a more special bond with music than other continents are is it simply because we are the oldest continent and the vibes resonate within our dna ?