No one I know calls trance techno

Is it just an american thing ?

___________________
Currently Listening To:

Catcher - Destiny Sunrise
Escape - Nothing To Fear
Quadrophonic - I Can Feel Your Love
Jask f/ Jocie - Beautiful (Jocie In My Room Mix)
Prassay - Krusin

Rediscovered: Airbase - Theme From The Rock
Never Dies: Ayumi Hamaski - Boys & Girls (Push Instrumental Dub)

Yes its basically an american thing or just someone who doesn't listen to trance and the general term for electronic music is techno to them.

quote:

Originally posted by verminator wtf???

i second that motion

___________________

quote:

Originally posted by Mills Is it just an american thing ?

Yeah, pretty much! I have given up on tryin to explain the difference to people, if they actually take the time to ask me questions about it, then I will explain the difference, but if they dont I don't even bother anymore. Just too much of a pain in the ass

___________________
What do you put into your live sets that has made you a dancefloor favorite for the past decade?

"I’m a dance floor favorite? Great! I would say the passion that I feel for the music I buy and the honesty with how I play it. I play the records I love not the ones that simply work. I’ve never taken the easy music option (which would make me a lot more money by the way) but chosen to push people a little. I try to draw people in a new direction slightly and expand their taste a little more than other DJ’s." - Lee Burridge

techno has no melody and there are no techno anthems, lol techno anthems

also its more hardcore of a genre and less mainstream than trance
the differences are huge, its more like blink 182 compared to korn (random pick)

blink 182 being pop, and korn being hard rock although some people say it's nu-metal

___________________

soulful/latin/deep house + jazz

quote:

Originally posted by Mills No one I know calls trance techno Is it just an american thing ?

Yes. To them, there is no difference between trance and techno, as techno is a catch-all term that encompasses trance, house, breaks, and real techno - any sort of electronic dance music really.

So don't rag on your friends for calling your music techno. Instead, play them some real techno and trance together, in one sitting. They'll immediatly hear the differences between the two. It's really just sub-categorization.

Hell, when I first starting listening to The Crystal Method and The Prodigy (some of my first electronic music), I called it techno. Only later did I realize that it was breaks.

___________________
occasional provider of half decent posts

I have to confess, that about two years ago, I didn't realize the difference between the two! :*[

I was one of those ignorant people, unaware of what to call what. And well, oh well. Some people have different interests, and really dont take the time to find out how to differenciate between a seemingly small difference of trance and techno (in their eyes..)

Just my thought.....

my understanding of "techno" music always was something repetitive, like the old-school psy/goa/deep pop whatever i started out listening to (i can't even classify it, not even now!)

these days, being an experienced tranceaddict, i always laugh at my friends when they mention techno.

one of my friends always used to call trance techno, and i was constantly explaining to him how there are breaks, dnb, techno, etc... he still said "who cares, it's all techno to me".
so i downloaded about 15 tiesto & armin albums to his comp and left him listening to all of them. he was a bit crazy and jumpy afterwards, but he never called trance techno after such treatment.

now, today another buddy of mine, hardcore eminem & rap fan, asked me if i know some good techno songs. so i gave him the names of the most hardcore techno beats . too bad, he didn't find them on kazaa, so instead i pointed him to marco v, the first thing that popped in my head.

LOL! sorry for such long & useless post.

___________________

quote:

Originally posted by apostrophe I have to confess, that about two years ago, I didn't realize the difference between the two! :*[ I was one of those ignorant people, unaware of what to call what. And well, oh well. Some people have different interests, and really dont take the time to find out how to differenciate between a seemingly small difference of trance and techno (in their eyes..) Just my thought.....

haha i agree -_^

In Australia,

alot of trance CDs are called dance

even the albums in record stores are titled and labeled as dance
its just for marketing purposes?

if you listen to it or even just look at the tracklisting on the backcover, its surely isn't dance.

they love to put it in a store titling it as dance. why?
big label on the front of it best dance tunes or wateva

crazy
but techno is techno and hardcore is hardcore
just trance gets mixed up alot

gets annoying to see un-educated people labeling things incorrectly, i am pretty sure when they released the album they know its trance. but still titling it incorrectly just to sell it.

in that case, it doesnt help educate anyone, and still ppl would never know the differences until they BECOME A TRANCEFREAK!

quote:

Originally posted by MindShifter Yeah, pretty much! I have given up on tryin to explain the difference to people, if they actually take the time to ask me questions about it, then I will explain the difference, but if they dont I don't even bother anymore. Just too much of a pain in the ass

quitter

___________________

Love the power glove, it's so bad.

quote:

Originally posted by Mills No one I know calls trance techno Is it just an american thing ?

Yes, and it is unbelievably frustrating! Even the music stores label the electronic music section "Techno," because they know the roving American teens don't know the difference between any of the genres. It's a painstaking process to correct the error.

However it is useful as a sort of indicator. If someone calls it trance instead of techno I know they have some basic knowledge of electronic music, usually the the extent of knowing that Tiesto is a DJ, but that's about it.

The term progressive is even an even better indicator. If an American mentions progressive house or progressive trance, I instantly recognize that they are familiar with the scene.

But to all you Europeans, remember that the concept of mainstream trance is as foreign to me as people calling it "techno" is to you.

500th Post! Woohoo!!!
Custom status for me!