Here me out, guys, here me out.
The most important thing to think about here is this: disco music is when synthesizers started to be widely used.
Not only that though, but drum machines. But first? A little music history.
July 17th 1979 was the day disco died... Except it didn't. Disco did a fusion spell with the tr roland 808 and 909 drum machines to create two genres:
Disco house, and what I like to call disco rap.
For now, let's focus on disco rap. It doesn't last for long, and rap quickly evolves into old school rap. Heavier reliance on the tr roland 808 drum machine, and old drum breaks. Old school evolves into "mid school," and mid school evolves into one of the largest and most profitable music genres, or new school rap. So that's one half, so what about the other?
Disco house consists of the tr roland 909 drum machine, and you guessed it, disco (big surprise).
Disco house goes to chicago, where it becomes chicago house. From there, what we now know as modern electronic music starts to form. Chicago house goes to the uk to create uk garage, and also sticks around in the us to create electro, and techno. From here, we start to see early 2000s electronic music.
Pay attention to house though, because around the 2010s, it's going to make a comeback.
Anyways, electro and techno are the springboard for everything from eurobeat to hardstyle to phonk to poopcore to psytrance. (And sometimes, rap and edm merge to create trap!)
House comes back, And makes edm probably the most popular and profitable music genre.
Most chart-topping music can't technically be considered edm per se, but most songs take a whole hell of a lot from edm, whether it's fidget house or jungle.
TL;DR:
Disco -> house -> modern edm
Disco -> old school rap -> new school rap
Edit: many other genres of music exist, be I think you can see my point
Trying to decide which to pick up. Couldn't the pocket operator do everything the 808 could do? I understand why the 808 is so heralded, but does it still stand up today in 2021? Is the Pocket Operator better?
