Hacker News Reader

I know, but precisely : referring to Moby as "techno" says everything on how clued up about electronic music the average US listener or artist was at the time :)

View on HN

Moby may have ended up with chart success and his tracks on car adverts, but he most did produce plenty of music in the same realm as the artists in the article. Maybe a bit more stompy and with a more varied structure than the clinical X-101 stuff, but it would be unfair to not call it techno. Whether or not Eminem was aware of his early work I couldn't say.

- 1994 Horses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ice5Nw6ltfY

- 1995 Desperate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdu9UwXqGc

- 1992 Drop a Beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WywzWjZATKA

- 1991 UHF3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21TjeBcA1cI

- 1991 Voodoo Child (Poor in New York Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WywzWjZATKA

Reply on news.ycombinator.com