i am sure that when you first heard an electronic beat, you knew everything about "techno", house, trance, and everything.
No, but when I first heard an electronica beat I could still tell the distinct difference.
(And that happened to be when I was around 11/12 years old)
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Jul-05-2006 17:29
Ministerio
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: The US of O
quote:
Originally posted by Sasha
HANDS IN THE AIR TECHNO
This made me lollerskate.
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Jul-05-2006 17:30
Ministerio
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: The US of O
quote:
Originally posted by weema
exactly. You weren't born knowing everything about edm why make fun of
of the less informed...why not guide them with the right information... it can only help the scene in the long run and make your life less bitter....and what is this "we don't want them at our parties anyways" attitude? Are we still in kindgergarden here? I personally love taking a edm newbie to a big event and see their faces light up when they hear the beauty of our music. It's about sharing and educating people not brushing them aside just because they dont know the difference between atb and techno. Grow up!
I guess a lot of it has to do with the fact that many MTV cultured peopple are ragging on us techno/house (or an electronica) loving people. They say we have no taste and that it's easy to make techno...and that you can't dance to it...etc..
And when I saw that post...it shows you that these people are putting us in a category we don't belong in. (Assuming that the techno we listen to IS IN FACT Sandstorm)
But yea..I guess it's better to just chill out..
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Jul-05-2006 17:36
l]evil
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: GTA--
lol let mtv cult. say what they want, ill still b dancin @ guv
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trance: (n)
a feeling of invicibility which you cannot escape as you succumb to the onslaught of sound.
Jul-05-2006 17:53
shanny
Ferocious One
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: in the jungle the mighty jungle
One of the things that pisses me off the most about people who listen to dance music is when people start acting like snobs if others don't understand the distinctions that are placed on the various types of electronic music.
First of all the distinctions themselves are very blurred, and I believe only really useful for trying to describe things, rather than place dj's or tunes in exact categories.
Also dance music is not like pop music in that a person can have easy access to the tunes. They are rarely on the radio, television or played in public places. I remember when I was first starting to have an interest in electronic music I found it frustrating that I did not know where to go to get it, and that I had no way of knowing what was good.
Yelling at people calling them ignorant for not knowing "distinctions" will only scare people away. I still am fuzzy about what certain things are and I've been listening to it for more than five years now.
I've had people repeatedly insist that my melodic trance is disco, and I think that's sort of silly. But I can see how people would think "techno" was a generic term for electronica if they were new... in fact, walking to a new stage friday night I had one of the strangers I was with ask me "what kind of techno is this?" I just answered "house" rather than derail the conversation.
Quotation marks are fun.
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Jul-05-2006 18:31
StereoPrincess
sassy one-piece
Registered: May 2001
Location: SPFRI
quote:
Originally posted by Ministerio
No, but when I first heard an electronica beat I could still tell the distinct difference.
(And that happened to be when I was around 11/12 years old)
ha ha, whatever dude.
you should be solving the world problems being an ubergenius like that.
Jul-05-2006 18:51
shanny
Ferocious One
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: in the jungle the mighty jungle
The worlds only ubergenious is The Count from Sesame Street.
Where Are The Tunes?
Good things happen to good people
Jul-05-2006 18:56
magikb
Home of Lix and Jennē
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: on the other side
quote:
Originally posted by shanny
One of the things that pisses me off the most about people who listen to dance music is when people start acting like snobs if others don't understand the distinctions that are placed on the various types of electronic music.
First of all the distinctions themselves are very blurred, and I believe only really useful for trying to describe things, rather than place dj's or tunes in exact categories.
Also dance music is not like pop music in that a person can have easy access to the tunes. They are rarely on the radio, television or played in public places. I remember when I was first starting to have an interest in electronic music I found it frustrating that I did not know where to go to get it, and that I had no way of knowing what was good.
Yelling at people calling them ignorant for not knowing "distinctions" will only scare people away. I still am fuzzy about what certain things are and I've been listening to it for more than five years now.
So I guess I'm ignorant too.
you tell them Josh!
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Jul-05-2006 18:58
Cosmic Fur
Debbie Downer
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Mississauga, Canada
Summary of thread thus far: Elitist comes out; Elitist gets owned; I laugh.
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Jul-05-2006 18:58
StereoPrincess
sassy one-piece
Registered: May 2001
Location: SPFRI
The Count says:
One Techno Beat, Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Two Techno Beats, Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Three Techno Beats, Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Four Techno Beats, Ha Ha Ha Ha!