Man Parrish

Although he produced only a handful of tracks of renown and disappeared into obscurity almost as quickly as he had emerged from it Manny Man Parrish is nonetheless one of the most important and influential figures in American electronic dance music Helping to lay the foundation of electro hiphop freestyle and techno as well as the dozens of subgenres to splinter off from those Parrish introduced the aesthetic of European electronic pop to the American club scene by combining the pluggedin discofunk of Giorgio Moroder and the manmachine music of Kraftwerk with the beefedup rhythms and cutnmix approach of nascent hiphop