The First Electronic Dance Song Ever Made

[@Yantar205]

crazy how electronic music involved to these days

[@tiamia7139]

Loved it in '77, love it now. Listen at 1:32 for the "Thriller" wah-wah...wah-wah. "Thriller" came out in 11/82!

[@alonzoramon1083]

Nice arpeggiated bass synth

[@mclainv]

Aye, intelligent life has been found!

[@user-th8qx6qv8n]

It’s really subjective, but I would say it definitely was not Kraftwerk because EDM is specifically made to dance too. EDM is a blanket term for electronic music specifically made for dancing, usually in clubs, raves, festivals, etc. It includes house, techno, trance, and a million other sub-genres of electronic music made specifically for dancing. Kraftwerk was electronic music, but not at all made for dancing in clubs. This song is. If we were to define the style of Kraftwerk the key word from the definition of EDM would be missing - “dance”. There’s no doubt that Kraftwerk and their contemporaries of the 70’s had a huge influence on EDM though. It just wasn’t dance music. Silver Apples “Oscillations” gets the first EDM song nod by a lot of people, but I don’t think it was really meant as a dance song. But again, that’s subjective and speculative. Gershon Kingsley’s “Pop Corn” is more like a dance song IMO. But Donna Sumer and Giorgio Moroder definitely made the first true club banger meant specifically for dancing in clubs that brought the electronic dance sound to the masses with I Feel Love. So, I don’t really have a great answer, because there probably isn’t one. However this track is what set shit off in the dance clubs and undoubtedly inspired a huge number of musicians and DJs looking for “danceable” club music. Afrikkaa Bambaataa released “Planet Rock”, largely inspired by Kraftwerk, in 1982 which connected hip-hop and electronic dance music and had a big influence on the Chicago, Detroit, and other dance scenes like Philadelphia. The earliest House tunes from Frankie Knuckles, Jesse Saunders and a couple others started coming out around the same time on underground mix tapes in Chicago. This is about the time House started to conform to certain aspects that became the defining elements of House. It carried the 4/4 beat over from disco, BPMs were more and more consistent, etc. Europe started out with electronic music before the US, but early EDM, which is pretty much House and Techno, is actually very American. The UK jumped on it pretty quick and from there things started spreading around the rest of Europe and the world. Now we have countless sub-genres that have evolved out of cities all over the world. House is kind of the godfather of EDM sub-genres and techno is it’s (very) slightly younger sibling, if not it’s twin as far as age is concerned. Carl Cox said ALL the EDM tunes he was playing in the UK in the early days came from Chicago and Detroit. I think it’s just super interesting that once disco died Chicago developed House, NYC developed Hip-Hop, and Detroit developed Techno all around the same era kind of as replacements for dead disco. It was the perfect storm of disco dying, electronic technologies emerging that allowed electronic music to be made, the social and economic unrest that people were looking to escape at dance clubs and dance parties, and DJs trying to figure out “danceable” music to play for people who wanted to dance but were over and done with disco. Hip-hop developed from almost identical circumstances. In each case it was all about DJs, that were trying to get people to dance all night, figuring out how to manipulate records and implement the new technologies that were becoming available, especially Roland synths, the 808, other newly available electronic music equipment. Whatever the case…I’m extremely grateful for all of it. I couldn’t imagine life without hip-hop and EDM, as well as the genres that started out before them!! It’s a good time to be alive if you love music!! ☮️❤️🎶🎤🙌

[@pedroaragon1332]

Perhaps this was the first FAMOUS Electronic Dance song, but not the very first Electronic Dance song ever made hahaha

[@robinsss]

Trans Europe expressAutobahn

[@OasisRecords1975]

It sure is. The first upbeated electronic dance song. There might be some very minimalstic ones in the electronic genre of the 60s but not Dance Music or Bassy.

[@robinsss]

@Electronic i clocked TEE at 107 BPM it's slow but a dance song can be slow

[@wel8266]

Giorgio Moroder made that awesome song, Chase

[@joshs5646]

This should be the first successful EDM song ever. Kraftwerk came out with EDM back in the early 1970s, but "I Feel Love" was a top 20 hit here in the USA.

[@bighands69]

I feel love was proper music what Kraftwerk were just producing noise.

[@AvemCeler]

@@bighands69Define "proper music" Mr. Mozart!!! The entire EXISTENCE of EDM, let alone Girgio Moroder's, relied on Kraftwerk! You think this song was inspired by "noise"!!?? Maybe if you heard their music AGAIN and paid a little more attention, you would begin to realize their brilliance. In a way, this song is sort of a knock-off of Kraftwerk's "Metropolis"!!!

[@moodi9789]

I dig this video! :)

[@TamaraWiens]

Not even close - Popcorn by Gershon Kingsley was released almost 10 years earlier, in 1969. I like this one, it just isn't first, by a long shot.

[@atwilsonjr]

this was the first one of normalized arrangement

[@dantanner5844]

Georgio Moroder said in a interview that he heard Kraftwerk and got the ideal for the song from them...

[@MartinKoolhoven]

How about Popcorn?

[@krank3869]

It's actually popcorn (1969)

[@LittleJohnaton]

who actually wants to dance to that song though?!

[@Schmorgus]

@@LittleJohnaton I'd prefer to dance to pop corn anyday. Way more than this hickup of a song.

[@eletricalplugandoutlet1540]

@@LittleJohnaton *EVERYONE!*

[@atwilsonjr]

this was the first one of normalized arrangement

[@KristophM]

Um no, Kraftwerk was the first electronic group.

[@Schmorgus]

Kraftwerk was the first techno. It's not the same as EDM.

[@notreal4061]

Evortus ... um no is fucking right... kraftwork, how could any music fan not know that ???! 🤭😬🧐🤓

[@dantanner5844]

Actually, it was the popcorn song

[@playonkorg]

@@dantanner5844 Gershon Kingsley 1969 Kraftwerk 1970

[@AvemCeler]

@@playonkorgKraftwerk weren't even technopop in 1970. It wasn't until 1974 with "Autobahn" that they would be genuinely synthesized. But this is definitely NOT the first EDM song. In fact, it knocks off "Metropolis" in ways.

[@killerdeej]

hhhrrrmmmmmm nope. goes back a bit further than this track.

[@OasisRecords1975]

Umm.. no. First EDM track.

[@OasisRecords1975]

***** Not really EDM.

[@yonskii]

OasisRecords1975 Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn

[@OasisRecords1975]

Also not EDM. More like Electro Pop but very minimalistic.

[@killerdeej]

OasisRecords1975 its actually disco. and thats it.

[@big_sad_wolf]

great track, but not even close to being the first EDM song

[@keikei4537]

Jellyfish Jam? WHERE TF U AT?

[@lolxd]

XD

[@alandaly2074]

lies

[@andwhoa]

+Alan Daly glue was big in 77

[@OasisRecords1975]

nope

[@bowensmith6656]

What is this song called?

[@rosequartz2999]

Donna Summer - I feel love.

[@dj.mb_one]

No it's not 😅 not even close.

[@sclitchmusic]

Lol it isnt

[@NoirSchindlersJR]

Lol you didn’t even born when this song came 😂 it was coming since 1977 (I also didn’t even born)

[@sclitchmusic]

@HankThonophyGD so what do you know about it likewise? I know for a fact that this isn't the first. It was most likely around the late 60s, potentially with the silver apples debut album, or arguably earlier.

[@NoirSchindlersJR]

@@sclitchmusic it actually the first EDM song not other style song

[@sclitchmusic]

@HankThonophyGD sure it mightve been the first popular edm song, but do your research before making bold statements.

[@coffee8291]

Hermmm....Today's EDM is better

[@illuminatismasher]

edm is a genre of electronic music. it is annoying and only liked by people born in the mid 90s.

[@GoodFoxyNC]

Today's music is not better before you don't have fl studio and millions of vsti sry bro,and today everybody can be DJ