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Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs because it has melody. techno doesn't have melodies, duh!

techno can have lots of melody

Really ?

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Originally posted by IpLaYWiTLiGhTs because it has melody. techno doesn't have melodies, duh!

Minimal techno like Spastik or some of Robert Hood's work is fairly atonal, but traditional techno is generally highly melodic.

Strings Of Life anyone?

I would call this techno I think; in that it's not funky/rhythmic enough to be straight house, not dubby/deep enough to be deep house and not atmospheric and percussive enough to be progressive house.

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Originally posted by kramer333 techno can have lots of melody

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Originally posted by Beat Blog Minimal techno like Spastik or some of Robert Hood's work is fairly atonal, but traditional techno is generally highly melodic. Strings Of Life anyone? I would call this techno I think; in that it's not funky/rhythmic enough to be straight house, not dubby/deep enough to be deep house and not atmospheric and percussive enough to be progressive house.

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Ellen Allien is considered mnml isn't she? And Orchestra of Bubbles is obscenely melodic, Rotary

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Originally posted by kitphillips Ellen Allien is considered mnml isn't she? And Orchestra of Bubbles is obscenely melodic, Rotary

Yeah nobody ever said Techno can't have a melody.

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Techno can't have a melody.

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Originally posted by Beat Blog Strings Of Life anyone?

Strings Of Life is more techno trying to imitate Chicago house than prototypical techno. If it had been made and played in Chicago rather than Detroit, we'd probably be calling it house now.

Although, yes, Iplaywiththecapslockkey was being sarcastic. Techno can and often does have melody.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Strings Of Life is more techno trying to imitate Chicago house than prototypical techno. If it had been made and played in Chicago rather than Detroit, we'd probably be calling it house now. Although, yes, Iplaywiththecapslockkey was being sarcastic. Techno can and often does have melody.

That is because all of the prototypical techno artists like May were creating house music. It just ended up being labeled 'techno' because we have some ridiculous need crate genres and subgenres of music.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Strings Of Life is more techno trying to imitate Chicago house than prototypical techno. If it had been made and played in Chicago rather than Detroit, we'd probably be calling it house now.

I disagree, I see it as fundmentally different to the house music I know from that era, although it obviously drew huge influence from it.

That's only one example anyway; one I picked because it's the most obvious and recognisable.