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| cultural_origins = Early–mid-1990s, Detroit and Chicago, United States| fusiongenres =| subgenrelist =United KingdomChicago}}| local_scenes =| other_topics = }} Ghettotech (also known as Detroit club) is a genre of electronic music originating from Detroit. It combines elements of Chicago’s ghetto house with electro, Detroit techno, Miami bass.WEB,www.oxfordmusiconline.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002256635, Ghettotech and ghetto house {{!, Grove Music|last=Mueller|first=Gavin|date=2014|website=www.oxfordmusiconline.com|language=en|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2256635|isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-01-15}}

Overview

Former Detroit music journalist for the Detroit Metro Times, Hobey Echlin describes ghettotech as a genre that combines “techno’s fast beats with rap’s call-and-response.“BOOK, Heaven was Detroit, Echlin, Hobey, Wayne State University Press, 2016, 9780814341223, Liebler, M.L., Detroit, 368, Inner-City Blues: The Story of Detroit Techno, It features four-on-the-floor rhythms and is usually faster than most other dance music genres, at roughly 145 to 160 BPM. Vocals are often repetitive, crude, and pornographic. As DJ Godfather puts it, “the beats are really gritty, really raw, nothing polished.“XLR8R TV Episode 13: Detroit Ghettotech. 14 Aug. 2007. .Ghettotech was born as a DJing style in the late 1980s, inspired by the eclecticism of The Electrifying Mojo and the fast-paced mixing and turntablism of Jeff “The Wizard” Mills. DJs would mix multiple genres including jungle, ghetto house, hip hop, R&B, electro and Detroit techno.WEB, Ghettotech: An Oral History,daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/05/ghettotech-oral-history, 2021-01-11, daily.redbullmusicacademy.com, en, The music of 2 Live Crew is also cited as influential to the genre.A Detroit ghettotech style of dancing is called the jit. This dance style relies heavily on fast footwork combinations, drops, spins and improvisations. The roots of jit date back to Detroit jitterbugs in the 1970s.WEB,noisey.vice.com/en_ca/blog/detroit-jit-jitterbugs-documentary-stringz, 2 Jit 2 Quit: In Search of Detroit’s Street Dance Culture Past and Present {{!, NOISEY| website = NOISEY| access-date = 2016-02-25| date = 2014-05-28}} Chicago’s equivalent dance style is Juke, where the focus is on footwork dating back to the late 1980s.THESIS, “Straight Up Detroit Shit”: Genre, Authenticity, and Appropriation in Detroit Ghettotech,etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?p10_etd_subid=48746&clear=10#abstract-files, Bowling Green State University, 2007, en, Gavin C., Mueller, Ghettotech was an integral part of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, an annual event.

Key record labels

• Twilight 76
• Databass
• Electrofunk
• Jefferson Ave
• Motor City Electro Company
• Intuit-Solar
• 666aline

References

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Further reading

• “Ghettotech, The Bluffer’s Guide” {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609043657www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/ghettotech-the-bluffers-guide.htm |date=2009-06-09 }} article at Stylus Magazine.
• “Ghettotech” article at Global Darkness.
• “Ghetto tech” by Ethan Brown article.
• BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=7yoEAAAAMBAJ&q=dj%2520assault%2520ghetto&pg=PA75, CMJ New Music Monthly, Inc, CMJ Network, December 2000, CMJ Network, Inc., en,

External links

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