DJ John Kelley - Funkydesertbreaks (CD)

Desert Trance Reaches out

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Apr 16, 2000 | 0 out of 1 found this Funkydesertbreaks review helpful

This was, to my knowledge, one of the first moonshine releases to showcase the talents of DJ John Kelley. He is a ‘Desert Trance’ DJ by trade and a musical genius by chance. I have heard many DJ mixed CDs in all the years that I have been listenin...g to Techno. John Kelley has released some of the best. His mixing talent is ranked with outstanding DJ’s such as Dan, Brian, Keoki, ‘D: Fuse’, Carl Cox and the all time master of trance Kimball Collins. I know that many people reading this my have already formed an opinion about Techno, ‘Trance’ or DJ John Kelley. But for those of you that are not familiar with this release, this DJ, or this style I want to give you a little background first. That is, of course, if Amazon will be gracious enough to allow it. This information is all to the best of my knowledge. I may be wrong so cut me some slack. I am just a Music Junkie with firm opinions. Techno originated out of deep Europe in the mid to early 80’s. It was actually a hybrid of disco and new wave. I know, the though of it makes me shudder too. Disco beats were being mixed with a new type of synthesizer technology. New sound and music was being created that had never been heard before simply because it did not exist before. I don’t know how or where it got the name “Techno” but it was the underground voice of what was called ‘Generation X.’ Instead of Gen-Xers, they later were dubbed the “Wired Generation” by one of the movement’s musical contributors. The first cousin of this style became known as ‘club’ or ‘dance’ music in the late 80’s. All that was needed was a platform or structure to get this new music out to the masses. Then came the “Rave.” A huge dance party with thousands of people that w Read more Less