I've always been curious how to define these types of music, ..
Like, Dj Tiesto plays trance, John Digweed plays Progressive, Lisa lashes plays Hard house!... but isnt there a genre for all of those types? and wouldn't it just be "Techno"?

... Some people say that, what I call Techno, was originally House music, and it just splitted... and more music genres were found out from that.. but I cant be sure.

what do you think?

I'd say techno is a very distinct subgenre of electronic music. It puts 80-90% of focus on rhythm and so only little focus on melody. Not the same as house music, hosue music has melody but it typically has much shorter loops than for instance trance, say 4 beats or 8 beats.

the way i see it

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When you say techno I think of Chris Liebing!!!

try check the forum we did about techno artists.. there is lot of techno artists.. techno is a pretty wide genre, it goes all the way from some productions that are pretty simular to house, and on the other side.. some hardass beats.. like the stuff dj rush spins....
so hard to deffine exactly what techno is..

Before I listened to a bunch of actual techno, I just called it 'not trance, jungle, progressive, happy hardcore or breakbeat'. Now that I've learned much more about it, I call it 'not trance, jungle, progressive, happy hardcore or breakbeat'. It's just all so different! One techno song is so different from another techno song by another artist that it seems nearly impossible to make any generalization about it, like how you can say with trance 'it often features a main theme, percussive 'builds' to climaxes and a general straightforward 4/4 time'. Techno however, I guess you can say it likes to feature percussion and less blatant melody like trance (as the other people were saying). But, from rhythm of techno song 'A' to techno song 'B' I still find too much strangeness and variety that I couldn't make a quick summary of it. Maybe the other ppl can...
personally, the word 'techno' is kind of self-explanatory in the electronic category that is actually called 'techno'...like, metallic crashing sounds and computerized buzzes, stuff like that...

Christian Vogel's def'n is Techno is like shagging, you are doing essentially the same thing but it's different everytime.

a genre of which they can all be placed is "Electronic music" probably right ?

Yeah, Electronic music, I just thought of that until you said that, ... so "Electronic" is the background of it all, and Not techno!
like I thought.

Right?

The thing you have to realize is that Techno is the name of a specific genre of electronic music, just like trance. Altho many people around the world use the word techno to describe all electronic music, it is not really the proper use of the word. It just causes confusion: "Do you mean the genre Techno or electronic dance music in general?"

In my view there are about six main parent genres of electronic dance music: House, Techno, Trance, Breaks, Jungle (or Drum and Bass, if you prefer), and Hardcore, each having plenty of sub-genres, of course. I supposed Hip Hop and Ambient could also be included...

House came first (in the late 1970s and 1980s). Then came Techno. Since Techno was the first identifiably electronic/compurized sounding genre, I guess some people started calling anything that sounded electronic Techno, even after new genres with different names started to develop and so it just kinda stuck over the years. So that's why some people incorrectly refer to all electronic music as "techno music". At least that's my theory...

Techno, the genre, is entirely based on loops and repetition, moreso than any other genre. After each loop (of some multiple of 8 beats), another looped pattern is either added or subtracted. So basically it's a bunch of usually non-melodic patterns repeating over and over, with new patterns (or elements) occasionally being added or subtracted.

So when people talk of some track or style being techy, like tech-trance or tech-house they mean it has more repeating patterns and loops (ie. closer to pure techno, but still trance or house)

Last edited by FinnHawk on Jun-03-2002 at 23:03

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