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What is electronic music? Well, it’s a type of music which was designed in the 1950s with sign generators and synthetic sounds. Before the music could be used in real time it had to be recorded on a tape which allowed the composers to handle the sounds easily, for example the use of repetitive swapped loops.

Electronic music allows its user to modificate, disassemble, accelerate the musical elements. The only limite is the composer’s creativity, as the machines let you do anything you want.

Nowadays the expression “electronic music” can be confusing for the people because it covers a big spectrum of different styles like house, techno, ambient, trance, hip-hop, drum and bass…

The importance of electronic music startet in the 1980s in the United States. Then, Chicago was the capital of house music pioniered by DJ Marshall Jefferson. Some years later, Detroit became the essential place for techno music with the famous DJ Jeff Mills who turned the world of techno music around. We mustn’t forget the triumph of acid house by the end of the 1980s in England. At this point of time electronic music was already known throughout the world. Starting in the 90s it became more popular and got still more diverse. Electronic minimal music, electro klash and drum and bass became more important in the middle of the nineties.

Nowadays electronic music is everywhere and of course you can dance to it. In Valencia, you can find some places with this type of music: Latex and Le Club du Pop offer pure and high-quality music. They are without a doubt the two places which offer the best electronic music programme.

This month we present you Vicente who, although he doesn’t work in the office of Route66, plays an important role for us – he’s responsible for the online marketing of our school. Thanks to him, people from all over the world can find us easily in internet. Vicente will tell us something about what he’s doing and about the new project he’s working on – the social network for Route66.

Hey Vicente, how are you?
I’m fine, eyes on the screen for a change. Thanks.

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We’re talking to Jon, a Spanish teacher at Route66 since September 2006.

Tell us something about you!
I’m from Cantabria (the most beautiful region in Spain =)), but I have been living in Valencia for more than three years after having lived through the North of Spain and along Europe.

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Dear friends, students and teachers from Route66,

I am leaving….!! After one and a half year of living la vida española (or at least I tried to, I will always be Dutch of course!) it’s time for a change. We are going back to The Netherlands for a short while, to prepare ourselves for a new adventure in Denmark or South America or…. We will see where we end up but I am sure we will find our way!

The worst thing from leaving is that you have to say goodbye. They say that people from Lapland don’t have a word in their language to say “goodbye” because they believe they will see each other again. They never say goodbye forever. I will do the same thing as the Lapps; I won’t say goodbye, just see you next time!

Thank you all for your friendship, your interesting and funny stories, for your attempts to improve my Spanish and your open minds! I will miss Valencia, the “gezelligheid” (a typical Dutch word for a good atmosphere), my friends, Route 66, the sunny weather and the Spanish way of living that I like so much. I wish you all the best and if you want to keep me informed about your lives, please do so! See you!

Lots of kisses, besos, kusjes en liefs, Marlies