Electro (musical genre)

Electro (abbreviation of both electro funk and electro boogie or electro disco) is an early genre of electronic music directly influenced by the use of TR-808.3 drum machines, interpretation with Moog synths and sampling of funk songs. 4 A typical disc of this genre includes, as a general rule, rhythms programmed by rhythm boxes and powerful electronic sounds devoid of vowels, although sometimes it has them, although normally distorted by vocoder. These characteristics are what differentiate electro from other dominant genres in the late 1970s such as disco and boogie, in which electronic sounds were only part of the instrumentation and not the basis of the whole song as in electro. The electro also served as the basis for the emergence of electronic dance music (especially in house and its derivative forms) and for modern hip hop genres.