One question has been bothering me for a while now......

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Posted by ahway26 on Jun-26-2005 02:56:

One question has been bothering me for a while now......

Why in Europe they call Trance, "House" music?? Best example is in Tiesto's in concert one dat MC kept saying "House music , As one"........ and also in a Marco V set dat dude kept saying House music, House music......bla...bla..bla... SO DO THEY CALL TRANCE "HOUSE MUSIC"?? because its so common or the MC has no clue wut they are saying?? Thanx!

Posted by isoterra on Jun-26-2005 03:04:

house & techno are probably the most well known forms of 4x4-orientated edm, & people not fully into the scene and its subgenres often use house/techno to describe anything with a 4x4 beat, more often than not cos they don't know any better

Posted by tribu on Jun-26-2005 03:13:

Well said by isoterra.

Additionally, trance and house music serve much of the same purpose; music,that is not hip-hop, for dancing to in a club. In this way, they are somewhat interchangable. Though there are several subtle differences between the two, trance and house are also incredibly similar. It takes an afficionado of one or the other, or someone who is familiar with the subtleties that mark each genre to distinguish between the two.

Posted by ahway26 on Jun-26-2005 03:14:

But doesnt dat mislead people even more? i mean House is House , Trance is Trance....just like poeple in US calling everything TECHNO!...

Posted by tribu on Jun-26-2005 03:19:

quote:
Originally posted by ahway26
But doesnt dat mislead people even more? i mean House is House , Trance is Trance....just like poeple in US calling everything TECHNO!...

Few people care to admit it, but at one point everything was techno. It took several years for subgenres to arise and somewhat meaninglessly so. So trance and house have subtle distinctions, so what? Mistaking one for the other is similar to mistaking ska for punk rock or hip-hop and r&b. Additionally, no songer is ever solely trance or house. They often have elements of both in their construction. Many people have adopted tempo as the sole means of distinguishing between the two. They establish a 'magic tempo'(a tempo at which one genre ends and another begins) and categorize each song they hear based on its tempo. This doesnt seem right, but it's easy to do, so most people dont have a problem with it.

Posted by Boomer187 on Jun-26-2005 03:19:

its cause europeans don't know anything about music.

heheh

Posted by TranceMission on Jun-26-2005 03:29:

Another thing is DJs dont always exclusively play trance... some of them start off wid some house and then move onto Trance so mayb the MC is confused

And in my part of the world when I say I like listening to trance people simply tell me so whose ur fav artists....Astral Projection, Infected etc So obviously they assume Trance = Psy Trance

I dun blame them coz of Goa... I mean ppl refer Psy trance as Goa trance

So no wonder they tell me that

Posted by A.J. on Jun-26-2005 06:33:

I think you can attribute it to the stupidity of the MC at Tiesto In Concert.

Posted by AlphaStarred on Jun-26-2005 06:46:

quote:
Originally posted by Boomer187
its cause europeans don't know anything about music.

heheh

hehe

Posted by ahway26 on Jun-27-2005 01:53:

Ya first i thought it was just the stupid MC...but i heard it in many sets...which made me wonder...maybe its just me dont like saying Trance and House are the same...for me ITS NOT!...

Posted by lilcapfromtedub on Jun-27-2005 02:39:

quote:
Originally posted by Boomer187
its cause europeans don't know anything about music.

heheh

ROTFL, ROTFL, ROTFL!!!!!

Posted by isoterra on Jun-27-2005 02:39:

quote:
Originally posted by A.J.
I think you can attribute it to the stupidity of the MC at Tiesto In Concert.

DO WHAT YOU WANT AND BLAME IT ON THE DEEJAY DEEJAY DEEJAY DEEJAY

Posted by Psiweaver on Jun-27-2005 04:13:

lol

Posted by vrahnos on Jun-27-2005 04:54:

Re: One question has been bothering me for a while now......

quote:
Originally posted by ahway26
Why in Europe they call Trance, "House" music?? Best example is in Tiesto's in concert one dat MC kept saying "House music , As one"........ and also in a Marco V set dat dude kept saying House music, House music......bla...bla..bla... SO DO THEY CALL TRANCE "HOUSE MUSIC"?? because its so common or the MC has no clue wut they are saying?? Thanx!

because the mc has no clue.

there is a confuse about melodic/psy (most people think that uplifting=psychedelic), but not between house/trance.
wtf, even the retardeds can tell the difference between house and trance

Posted by ScratchMaster on Jun-27-2005 05:46:

I think it's getting tougher and tougher to classify genres.This is because both house and trance are borrowing elements from each other more and more.This is especially true for prog where the line between prog house and prog trance is reeeeally blurred.

But that said most errors in classifying genres happens due to ignorance of the concerned party.As said above,when I tell people I listen to trance they think I'm a pot head who listens to noisy goa.

There is no way you could introduce Tiesto as a House jock.IMO the MC needs to start doin some backgroung research before talkin if he dosen't want to make a complete jackass off himself.
It's because of people like him that the partying public come up to me and tell me not to play TECHNO when I'm playing House.