Analog to Algorithm: RSS Disco’s Underground Journey

Live from 39c3 - the 39th Chaos Communication Congress
From crackling Kraut and Disco records to hyper produced Techno tracks - dance music has come a long way in the last six decades, and was always strongly influenced by evolving technology.
Dance music’s history is a feedback system between culture and circuitry. Each new invention, from the disco subwoofer to today’s neural-driven mastering tools, reshapes sound itself. RSS Disco’s timeline approach celebrates this continuum: a story of machines learning to groove, and humans learning to listen differently through them.
We take you on a trip through music history in a two hour DJ-set. Starting with music from the early 1970s and closing with tracks produced in 2025. Have a dance with us and get a feeling for the changing sound aesthetics, style and fashion the over the decades.
Not a lot of time to cover the sheer endless amount of music and information, you say? You are right! This can only be a tiny extract, filtered through our perspective and taste. We’ll focus on a selection that feels representative for its time - exciting, beautiful, obscure or interesting. And of course some dirty bangers.
To make the set not only danceable but also offer hungry brains visual context, we provide a live timeline with info about the decade's musical developments, technical breakthroughs/curiosities and fun facts. This will be uploaded to youtube soon!