Please visit the link below to read The History of Electronic Dance Music. That might help to clear a few things up....

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=150600

Utter shit

The worst forms of techno are trance, speedcore, acid, and rave. And I say that because they are the complete opposite of what music is supposed to be.

form of music created by banging head on wall while tripping on acid and jumping up and down on bagfulls of mice while wierd lights flash.

that techno stuff is inhumane and should be outlawed!!

Oh no no no no

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techno 20 votes The best music in the entire world, a form of electronic music genre, the beats per minute can be sped up to mad levels. I like scooter, they have a mixture of hardocre techno, techno, happy-hardcore and acid techno. It's tight.

I like this one though

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techno 11 votes A popular music genre that doesn't glorify crime - violence - misogynism (can anyone tell me what that means?)- or drug use (like rap does)

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Last edited by UnBracKo on Dec-28-2003 at 16:51

for those who don't like techno, it's because you can't understand the simplicity of it's hardcoreness. So, in other words, unless you have an accquired taste for things that are thrown together to make something ultimately trippy, chances are, you don't like it.

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Originally posted by nickpdx lmao....i didnt think people hated it that much most people i know tell me - "how can you like that? it all sounds the same!"

YES! that happens to me a lot.

yesterday a friend gave me her mp3 player, to listen to a 'new' techno track. well i put on the headphones and listened, then i told her that it wasnt techno, it was GABBER! and she said, "so! it doesnt matter, it all sounds the same when im stoned or drunk"

cheesh, people dont even want to learn

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I took the time to post some correctional measures, and and though it might be a bit condescending I think it's fairly informative, as well as a bit innacurate.

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The general public's misconception is deeply rooted. Actually the "trunk" genre is electronica not "techno". Techno is an unrelenting, relatively high BPM (120+) electronica genre characterized by harsh or exotic noise and extensive use of percussive instrumentation and rythymic progression. Its' birth, while largely irrelevant, was in Detroit, MI USA approximately ~20 years ago. It is *not* "rap background music" which atypically relies on a simple melody and a very slow BPM (80ish bpm). Techno is largely devoid of melodic solos although some of it's bastard children do contain them in said form (namely tech-trance). I think the general public's misconception is due to their lack of understanding of the diversity and complexity of EDM (electronic dance music, or electronica). Atypically a vocal-less genre (sans some of the "lesser" genre's and their bastard children) it tends to be rather alienating to somebody who has grown up listening to music with "words" in it. Understanding that sound is an expression in itself is essential to understanding the avant-garde electronica movement of the past 25-30 years. Classically trained musicians have a *much* easier time understanding this than your average "50 cent" or "Christina Aguilara" fan. I hope my primer has been most helpful to the nameless masses out there. Remember, if you don't know what something is but you recognize it as containing electronic-sounds call it "Electronica", as, while vague, it is always correct. Opposed to the word techno, which only makes you look stupid to anyone within a 30 foot radius who actually knows what techno is.

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vote 5 stars for the last definition on page 5

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soulful/latin/deep house + jazz

omg these definitions are hilarious

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Techno is usually listened to by fat nerds who play DDR and wish they were japanese.

ddr omg.. those vids still make me laugh

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Originally posted by UnBracKo This thread should be in the Music Discussion forum

this is more 'Idiot Discussion' than 'Music Discussion'

and yes, some of those are ludicrous

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