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Posted by drizzt81 on Apr-09-2002 16:09:

n00b question

ok..
someone explain the difference between techno and trance to me, exactly.

I am wonding, why id DJ Scott Project not techno, but hard trance?

Posted by flystyler on Apr-09-2002 16:50:

You are hardly a noob. I think it is kinda obvious. Techno is a lot harder and doesnt seem to have anything in it for me

There is a site somehwere with the definitions of all the genres, i am sure someone will post it

Posted by eXos on Apr-09-2002 16:54:

Re: n00b question

quote:
Originally posted by drizzt81
I am wonding, why id DJ Scott Project not techno, but hard trance?

Well, in Germany they call DJ Scott Project Techno and here in Holland for example Hard Style or Hard Trance.

Techno is Sven Vath, Carl Cox, Chris Liebing etc.
And thats was here alot earlier than the Techno as you know it.

Posted by AndiH on Apr-09-2002 17:24:

Re: Re: n00b question

quote:
Originally posted by !_PeTrUs_!
Well, in Germany they call DJ Scott Project Techno and here in Holland for example Hard Style or Hard Trance.

nope...we call scott project hard trance as everybody does...but in germany the term "hard house" doesn't exist...and some other things like "progressive house" is in germany something you guys would call "minimal house" for example

Posted by wookieslut on Apr-09-2002 17:48:

what's noob mean?

Posted by USMC_Greg on Apr-09-2002 17:52:

"n00b" = 1337 hax0r talk for "newbie"

Posted by Civic on Apr-09-2002 18:03:

i think the main difference is that Techno has got no big melody, just simple "loops". I think many definations are not right used in Germany. For example that progressiv here mainly stands for harder techno or that Beam vs. Cyrus (or simliar artists) are called "Hardtrance" and not Hardhouse

Posted by NY1004 on Apr-09-2002 18:19:

Yea trance has a melody while technno just mainly has those beats. Stuff by Scot Project, even though it's harder, still has melody and thus we dub it "Hard Trance." Class Dismissed.

Posted by biznology on Apr-09-2002 18:36:

and if you wanna get REALLY technical then theres Detroit techno and Euro techno...and thats just overly complicated. i have too much experience with the detroit stuff - it would be damn near impossible to confuse the two. techno often sounds like hard industrial rock, with no melody and the only cool part is when the dj mixes in the next song...get really drunk if listening to it...heh/

Posted by SmellsExcellent on Apr-09-2002 19:52:

quote:
Originally posted by biznology
and if you wanna get REALLY technical then theres Detroit techno and Euro techno...and thats just overly complicated. i have too much experience with the detroit stuff - it would be damn near impossible to confuse the two. techno often sounds like hard industrial rock, with no melody and the only cool part is when the dj mixes in the next song...get really drunk if listening to it...heh/

I totally agree with the mixing part biz... Carl cox, whn I saw him, played rather uninteresting music in and of itself, but the man has a great talent.. he mixed songs for 2 minutes and up, did some amazin switching back and forth, backspins, turntabling, ohhh it was so much fun.. Techno IMO is best in a club with a great DJ, not as good to listen to alone just cuz its not "melodic" at all.

-Marc

Posted by KilldaDJ on Apr-09-2002 19:55:

techno = a form of electronix music
trance = a form of electronix music but nicer

Posted by drizzt81 on Apr-09-2002 20:00:

quote:
Originally posted by Civic
i think the main difference is that Techno has got no big melody, just simple "loops". I think many definations are not right used in Germany. For example that progressiv here mainly stands for harder techno or that Beam vs. Cyrus (or simliar artists) are called "Hardtrance" and not Hardhouse

that explains why i am all messed up with my defn's...

Posted by Biohazard on Apr-09-2002 20:00:

quote:
Originally posted by KilldaDJ
techno = a form of electronix music
trance = a form of electronix music but nicer

I like both!

Techno... hard to explain, there are so many different types such as acid, classic, deep, detroid, minimal etc

its one of the deepest genres around, ive been listening to it for about 5 months now and I know that I only scratched the surface

Posted by SmellsExcellent on Apr-09-2002 20:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Biohazard
its one of the deepest genres around, ive been listening to it for about 5 months now and I know that I only scratched the surface

isnt it a GREAT feeling?? Ohh I love knowing that I will never really be able to know all the boundaries of 'techno.' So much to explore.........

-Marc

Posted by davinox on Apr-09-2002 21:26:

OK...here is the difference...

Techno - Not Emotion, industrial, loops of the same beat, not much of a melody.
Trance - Emotional, uses synths and vocals to protray these emotions, beats are used for support rather than most of the song.

That's why Scot Project is HARD trance. no way is he techno.

Posted by Vinylgroovah on Apr-09-2002 21:42:

Techno = Warp Brothers

Posted by KilldaDJ on Apr-09-2002 22:32:

quote:
Originally posted by Vinylgroovah
Techno = Warp Brothers

i thought they were hardhouse or hardtrance...
more over to the hardhouse, cuz they r featured on quite a few HH albums

Posted by Vinylgroovah on Apr-10-2002 01:57:

quote:
i thought they were hardhouse or hardtrance...
more over to the hardhouse, cuz they r featured on quite a few HH albums

Well to me they are techno, they have a song called technorocker, and their sounds if u exclude the bassline's just sound so technoish. Could fall along somewhere in the lines of hardhouse. But when i think of hardhouse, i think of pale x, mr bishi type of stuff. But they both have dat naaaaasty hard bassline in their tracks.

Posted by tranceaholic on Apr-10-2002 02:14:

warp brothers are in know way techno, hard trance. look at we will survive , blast the speakers and phat bass all have some sort of melody in them. not just boom boom boom like techno.

greetz...