It might be the most isolated city in the world, but it connects a lot with the rest of the world when it comes to music. Great sounds have come out of Perth in the past, but if you look at the current line-up of successful music acts that have come from Perth you’d…
Because our previous post on Kraftwerk opened up a can of worms, as to the musicians they influenced, and the music those musicians created it was inevitable to put together a good list of some of the best songs influenced by Kraftwerk. Many of these will directly say that they were influenced by the…
One of the greats of German music are the renowned band formed in the early 1970’s Kraftwerk which translates to “power station”. One of many of the genre of music called krautrock, many bands credit this band as their inspiration. With innovation being their gift at the time to the music industry, they are…
Colombia, one of the Spanish speaking countries with the largest diversity of musical culture, styles and genres, posibbly even the most. Traditional music that is native to the country includes, Cumbia, Llanero (shared with Venezuela in the plains region), Vallenato (also shared with Venezuela), Joropo, Mapele, and the more obscure musical sounds of Andean…
When it comes to world rock music industry the Spanish-speaking rock industry is the 2nd largest after English. Mexico, the largest Spanish-speaking country is the epicentre and launch pad for many of the Latin America rock acts. Many up and coming rock acts or groups, from Colombia, Argentina or Cuba for example move to Mexico…
As the 60’s ended and the 70’s started the Australian music scene was burgeoning. The beach scene was becoming more popular and there was a change in the style of music that the surfers liked to listen to. They still liked the acoustic sounds of the Deltones and other surfer sounds but, the harder guitar…
Ever since I first started listening to Brazilian music and heard Sergio Mendes’ song Magalenha and then Os Mutantes-Minha Menina, I started to notice some good music to put to a party tape or CD. I put Minha Menina in a 60’s party CD, and it got every dancing, all my friends were asking…