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Calling all electronic music techno is similar to how many people say "Hoover" when referring to vacuuming ie "I hoovered the carpet" Hoover is a brand of vacuum cleaners. Similar to how everybody calles in line skates "rollerblades." Rollerblade is a brand. It's simply mislabelling.

You're welcome for the pointless info

because of trance many people are confusing the genre. I told one one guy i want to listen to some techno and he just gave me some trance songs then he said its techno. i actually think that trance destroy the whole techno industry. Trance had gone too comercial and its giving techno a bad name. As you can you see all the comercial artists are producing trance not techno. I say either trance go more underground or be remove forever.

by the way would you say that Chemical Brothers are technO?

you actually referred to techno as REAL techno and expected someone to give you techno and not cheese?
wow

edit:also tiger woods is half thai

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Originally posted by Micheline by the way would you say that Chemical Brothers are technO?

They're usually considered as "big beat".

a little info..
http://cyberproject.narod.ru/styles/bigbeat.htm

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Originally posted by drewfactor Calling all electronic music techno is similar to how many people say "Hoover" when referring to vacuuming ie "I hoovered the carpet" Hoover is a brand of vacuum cleaners. Similar to how everybody calles in line skates "rollerblades." Rollerblade is a brand. It's simply mislabelling. You're welcome for the pointless info

good analogy :P

Thats a good question. i think the problem lies with people who dont know "Electronic music" and when they ask you what kind of music your into etc. There is alot of people that have no clue what you are talking about if you say trance or hard house. So you try to say something simpler and techno is something simpler even if its not right, same thing for electronic, alot of people associate techno with anything elcectronic and obviously the same for electronic I think next time someone asks me ill just tell them to shut the fuck up cause im a lazy bastard when it comes to explainig to people

You must understand, even if they know all the different types of EDM and can easily identify the subgenre if you played them a track, they still wouldnt be able to overcome the "repetitiveness" and the "all-sound-the-sameness" that is EDM, so what does it matter what they call it? Just keep the gift to yourself.

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Originally posted by Rakoon You must understand, even if they know all the different types of EDM and can easily identify the subgenre if you played them a track, they still wouldnt be able to overcome the "repetitiveness" and the "all-sound-the-sameness" that is EDM, so what does it matter what they call it? Just keep the gift to yourself.

exactly
it makes me feel that much smarter when I talk to someone who calls everything "techno"
hehehehe

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Originally posted by drewfactor Calling all electronic music techno is similar to how many people say "Hoover" when referring to vacuuming ie "I hoovered the carpet" Hoover is a brand of vacuum cleaners. Similar to how everybody calles in line skates "rollerblades." Rollerblade is a brand. It's simply mislabelling. You're welcome for the pointless info

i dont think people call vacuum cleaners hoovers, thats just low brow
its pretty true about rollerblades though, no one actually says in line skates

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I guess what really bothers me about this situation, is techno itself, isnt getting the justification/respect I believe it deserves today. I honestly could care less if anyone else listens to it, however, what BOTHERS me is to see someone classify popular trance DJs, as techno. IMO its complete mislabeling and solid ignorance

i totally understand what you mean. its common though, the average pop music listener, doesn't know jack shit about electronica. they judge it buy what they hear on the radio stations, and what they hear at local clubs. that's why sometimes i am offended by the word cheese. of course us educated emfanZ know the difference btwn cheese and the real shit. but to them, its all just 'techno'.

how is it that a song/artist is considered cheese, when half the f'ing globe doesn't know shit about electronica??? i think that is a blanted dis to all electronic music artists we have ever considered cheese (except for dj sammy) . j/k

anywayZ, back to my point. it dissapoints and frustrates me how;
if you were to play an average music listener, 'techno', and let's say 'dnb'. Chances are, they wouldn't know what the differences are. they would just classify both of them as techno. and that gets me heated. i remember this one time in my class last semester, i asked my friend if i could listen to this one roni size, dj die, krust, recorded liveset, and this guy that sits in front me goes; Why do you listen to that 'techno'? What do you get from it? I put my cd player and earphones down, and start explaining to the guy why i listen to this style of music. I tell the guy; first off, this is not techno, but drum n bass. And second, I get more emotion and feeling from this style of music then any of your poppy, mainstream rap, bullshit. that shut the guy up, and my friend that lent me the cd was was suprised as to how elequently i put that to the guy. My friend was then like DAMN!!!, You told that foo! And he gave me mad daps.

Moral of the story; take the time to educate the uneducated about their definition of 'techno' and other electronic music styles.

p.s. sorry for the long post.
-reZ

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Originally posted by Rakoon You must understand, even if they know all the different types of EDM and can easily identify the subgenre if you played them a track, they still wouldnt be able to overcome the "repetitiveness" and the "all-sound-the-sameness" that is EDM, so what does it matter what they call it? Just keep the gift to yourself.

exactamondo

my girlfriend is like that, she is very versatile and likes diff. music but she still says she finds my stuff very simular altho she likes the more chilled leftfield tuff like Hed Kandi cd's and ISOS 2 & 3

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