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>>9762689
Europe has more roots with the Punk scene than it does House/Club/Techno/Rave or Hip Hop, that was culture imported from America. The same culture that was imported into Japan at the same time because music is internationally distributed, even underground stuff. What, did you completely forget about Beatmania?

Just to make my point:
>"Liam Howlett [of The Prodigy] cited early electro as a big influence, mentioning tunes like "Clear" by American music group Cybotron and "Al Naafiysh" by Hashim [also American]. He also cited the Bomb Squad [American], Public Enemy [American], and Rage Against the Machine [you get it] as influences."

There were international tinkerers of early electronic music:
>Luigi Russolo
>Halim El-Dabh
>Pierre Schaeffer
>Karlheinz Stockhausen
>Raymond Scott
>Daphne Oram
>Morton Subotnick
>Wendy Carlos
but a major part of the house and club scene's foundation specifically is American due to Frankie Knuckles and his DJ performances starting from 1977 at a venue called The Warehouse (thus "House" music) where his performances were bootlegged and distributed internationally and inspired countless people to make their own music. Culture may have a tangible origin but as it is internationally distributed and celebrated it mixes with new ideas and creates new ideas and thus new culture.

The evolution of ideas can't be pierced by a flag and claiming any one scene/genre/etc. as belonging to a specific nation is ultimately meaningless when some other idea inevitably builds upon the first idea and becomes even bigger: Check out the evolution of House music if you're interested, but that'll be all I say on the matter here. Play Beatmania.