Tunes That Spawned Entire Genres

[william_kent]

a couple or ten of rum & cokes ( I'm on "Kraken" tonight, "a liquid of unparalleled darkness", a nice winter warmer ) and the spate of "proto" threads ( @blissblogger's Inventing Sounds Way Ahead of Historical Schedule, @bassbeyondreason's Out-of-Place Artifacts, and @ohman's distribution points ) have made me think "do tunes that spawned entire genres" - no matter rubbish how that genre is perceived - count as proto whatever genre?

I'm thinking:


Shabba Ranks - Dem Bow

is this "proto-reggaeton"? Ahead of its time?

and what about:


DJ Battery Brain - 808 Volt Mix

proto Baile Funk ( aka Funk Carioca )? Sampled, or at least the beat is copied, in practically every 1990s "baile funk" tune, although in turn it samples Soul Sonic Force "Planet Rock" which in turn samples Karftwerk's "Numbers" which in turn is some stiff Germans character armoured take on James Brown...I'm falling down a rabbit hole here...

an example of early Baile Funk borrowing from DJ Battery Brain includes:


MC Tigra - Tira a Camisa

but then we get:


SD Boys - Planeta Dominado

blatantly steals from Soul Sonic Force

so is electro "proto Baile Funk"?

edit: post psychedelic "Bill" says "we are all one, we're all reading from ( or listening to ) the same Akashic record" *

* although sometimes we're illiterate or tone deaf and it takes us time to learn...

another edit: sorry, I'm completely out of it, I doubt any of you you can follow my train of thought here....but there must be other examples of tunes that spawned entire genres?

 

[Leo]

first pavement 7" ("slay tracks" ep), can't say for sure but maybe the root of low-fi indie.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

The bedrock for New Orleans bounce AND (when slowed down) Memphis rap:

 

[Corpsey]

Did a similar thread on here ages ago, not to derail this one but probably some good examples in here

Tunes that Spawned a Thousand Imitators

Doesn't have to be a thousand FYI, I ain't Malcolm Gladwell. Any genre is acceptable. I was thinking of rap music, when a beat gets made and is either so good or used in such a successful tune that it gives birth to a thousand/million bedroom imitators. I'm pretty sure this is a good example...

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