Mantronix

USA

Formed: 1984

Died: 01 January 1991

Years Active: 80

Genres: Rap, Electronic, R&B

Styles: House, Dance, Club/Dance, Electro, Electronica, Old-School Rap, Hip-Hop/Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, Golden Age

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Over and above their standing as one of the best and most innovative groups from hip-hop's golden age, Mantronix provided rap music with its first man-machine, Kurtis Mantronik. A turntable master who incorporated synthesizers and samplers into the rhythmatic mix instead of succumbing to the popular use of samples simply as pop hooks, Mantronik exploited technology with a quintessentially old-school attitude which had little use for instruction manuals and accepted use. After the hip-hop world began to catch up with Mantronik's developments, he...

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