Just like video game developers, electronic and club music producers were experimenting with new, rapidly developing technologies to push the boundaries of their artform.Īnd in the forty years since video games first really appeared on the scene, not only have producers like Soichi Terada, Takkyu Ishino, and even the Chemical Brothers flocked to create music for games, but other musicians have taken the sound effects from games and sampled them for their own music. It’s no coincidence that these artforms grew at this time together, as they would lend themselves to mutual collaboration. Dance music and video games have a deep, intertwined history.Īs gaming boomed throughout the 1980s and 90s, with consoles like the Sega Mega Drive and Sony Playstation finding themselves in most homes, so too were sounds in electronic music booming, like techno, drum and bass, and rave music.
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