Most American's refer to any type of electronic music as "techno". Trance has more of a melody, which techno generally lacks.

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Well ok whenever I take trance and break it down musically it's like it's structured throughout, there is a melody you can pinpoint, a baseline that you can follow etc, with techno it's structured as well except for the melodic part, it's just more harsh, doesn't really have a part of a track where you can say ok here's the good part, because it's allllllll good. The "melodic" part of a techno track to me is spread out throughout the entire track and flows that way. I could be WAY off but that's just what I think...

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yeh all americans think any electronic music is techno.
so annoying

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this is it.

techno : beats
trance : uplifting

no long speech is going to help them understand so just use these two words

yeh, pretty much every1 else has summed it up, but if u want my two cents, then techno is usually pretty fast, uses a very basic melody, if any at all, and very hard, fast & rough beats. Whereas trance has easily distinguishable parts, the intro, the build up, the melody, the breakdown, then the conclusion.............in techno those 5 things are all usually intermixed 2getha lol.......thatz y i personally dont like techno, the closest i'll go to it is Umek. I downloaded Chris Liebing - Live @ Mayday 2002, and thru out the whole set, it all sounds the same to me

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someone in another thread i read once on these forums described it pretty nice

trance _____^^_________^^^^^^^^^^^^^___________^^^^^^_______

techno _____________________________________________________

but im just a fkn newbie so..

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Originally posted by bram someone in another thread i read once on these forums described it pretty nice trance _____^^_________^^^^^^^^^^^^^___________^^^^^^_______ techno _____________________________________________________ but im just a fkn newbie so..

hahahha, thatz kool!! better than my explanation LoL

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Originally posted by bram someone in another thread i read once on these forums described it pretty nice trance _____^^_________^^^^^^^^^^^^^___________^^^^^^_______ techno _____________________________________________________ but im just a fkn newbie so..

Roflmfao im using this im going to draw it every time some one asks me now lmfao that is great man. Usaully i say that trance has more melody and structure where are techno has a more simple layout lacking any form of melody. Yes America, "You like trance, what is that?" "oh is that like techno stuff, like Moby?"
Actually Moby - In this world (Push mix)
fucking owns heh but thanks for that drawing man im still laughing im deffinently going to use that omg that was good.

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I downloaded Chris Liebing - Live @ Mayday 2002, and thru out the whole set, it all sounds the same to me

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trance _____^^_________^^^^^^^^^^^^^___________^^^^^^_______ techno _____________________________________________________

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