Electronic Music and Techno Music of Germany

Germany has the largest the electronic music scene in the world. The group Kraftwerk was one of the first bands in the world to make music entirely on electronic tool, and the band Tangerine Dream is often credited as being among the initiator and mainly influences of the Berlin School of the electronic music, which would later influence trance music. Some other bands such as Tyske Luder, Liasisons Dangereuses, Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft and Die Krupps established a pattern later known as Electronic body music. Also renowned are Scooter. Currently a few electronica musicians have become successful in the mainstream, such as Marusha, Monika Kruse, MIA and Blumchen. Artists on the cutting edge of German-language techno include Klee. Both Einsturzende Neubatuen (falling new building, translated literally) and KMFDM (no majority for the pity, translated literally) are considered by many industrial and electronic music supporters as the godfathers of their genre. Their sounds created the current patterns of groups like Marilyn Manson, NIN, Rammstein and the New Order.

Einsturzende Neubauten can be recognized by their Prince-espue logo, which has been subliminally joined into many mainstream American movies (like tattoo in the movies Bug, directed by William Friedkin, starring Harry Connick Jnr.). Their sound resembles primitive banging of pots and pans and screaming rants in German about the Russian famine. KMFDM has produced several songs in English, making them more accessible to their huge American and worldwide spectator. Since the year 2006 producer and DJ Paul Kalbrenner gained popularity in Germany. He nowadays is one of the most popular performers of electronic music.

Trance music is a pattern of electronic music that rooted in Germany in the very late 1980s and the early 1990s, upon German union. Following the creation of the trance music in Germany, many Trance genres stemmed from the original trance music and most trance genres was initiated in Germany, most notably Anthem trance or also called uplifting or epic trance, progressive trance, and Ambient trance. One of the most notable activities referring to this scene was the Love Parade festival with up to 1.5 million peoples from all over the world.