First gangsta rap song was from Philadelphia, by this guy (Ice T said he was a big inspiration for him, and you can hear that a lot in his first tracks)

This song is probably not the first of its kind, but you can definitly hear where modern trap take it's roots. As at that periode it was still an underground sound mostly find on local mixtape, there is not just one song that start the genre, but DJ Paul's work surely have it's influence on it (as well as DJ Screw mixtape)

And all this would not exist without that first rap song from 1941, already talking about gun and murders

 

Almost forgot about the first "true" funk song. Cold Sweat by James Brown.

See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Sweat

 

How about "papa's got a brand new bag" which had been released 4 years earlier?

 

2 years*

 

I'm not sure that he started a genre is certainly one of the most representative pieces for djent music

the same applies to pump up the volume by M.A.R.R.S

 

About time for the beginning of Symphonic Metal

 

The birth of Fusion in my country.

 

The very beginning of heavy metal ?

 

I have not been back to this wonderful thread in a while. That is a 1969 recording released in 1970. This song was released 2 years earlier:

 

First trance track , from 1990.
In my opinion, the genre was dead about 1995, had its high in 1993-1994, a lot of cheesey rubbish had been released, but there a few dozens of unique tunes that are listenable today, and of course trigger some long forgotten feelings. Not necessarily this tune posted, but it was the first, if you are not talking about the originators like Kraftwerk & Tangerine Dream that really started this sequencer music thing.

 

Good selection BUT don't forget KLF's What Time is Love (Pure Trance 1) from 1988. The original 12" is hard to find.

A 1989 Remix by Neon

 

True that. I valued klf more in the pop context, but i liked that tune when it came out. Good guys, time lords doctorin the tardis & theme from s-express i like too, same guys

@The Pirate you allways go to the core of things seems like, i superappreciate that!

 

One of the earliest minimal techno tunes

 

@Retrolize77 You want to listen to something from 1984 that sounds like the KLF song? Here it is:

A 1997 Remix

 

I am a pirate but first a dance music lover.

 

Classic, i heard in a radio show about 91-92, allways loved the 16th notes sequence, every genre got its roots earlier, youre right

 

@Retrolize77 maybe you have seen this movie already. If you havent, when you have some free time watch it. Vince Clark is a beast. Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure, The Assembly,Blacmange,The Clarke and Ware Experiment...This group Yazoo, with the song Situation was the bomb in 1982.

 

that sounds like kind of Giorgio Moroder.

 

There is a lot of controversy as to the song's origin and inspiration. One thing i know is that Blue Monday is one hell of a song.

Listen to this song at 1:40 drums

To this one intro

How 'bout this:

 

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I knew this song but not the name of the band that composed it. Thank you!
But for me, it's not heavy metal. It would be more like Glam Rock, in the spirit of what Slade did in the early 70s.