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| quote: | | I guess what really bothers me about this situation, is techno itself, isnt getting the justification/respect I believe it deserves today. I honestly could care less if anyone else listens to it, however, what BOTHERS me is to see someone classify popular trance DJs, as techno. IMO its complete mislabeling and solid ignorance |
i totally understand what you mean. its common though, the average pop music listener, doesn't know jack shit about electronica. they judge it buy what they hear on the radio stations, and what they hear at local clubs. that's why sometimes i am offended by the word cheese. of course us educated emfanZ know the difference btwn cheese and the real shit. but to them, its all just 'techno'.
how is it that a song/artist is considered cheese, when half the f'ing globe doesn't know shit about electronica??? i think that is a blanted dis to all electronic music artists we have ever considered cheese (except for dj sammy) . j/k
anywayZ, back to my point. it dissapoints and frustrates me how;
if you were to play an average music listener, 'techno', and let's say 'dnb'. Chances are, they wouldn't know what the differences are. they would just classify both of them as techno. and that gets me heated. i remember this one time in my class last semester, i asked my friend if i could listen to this one roni size, dj die, krust, recorded liveset, and this guy that sits in front me goes; Why do you listen to that 'techno'? What do you get from it? I put my cd player and earphones down, and start explaining to the guy why i listen to this style of music. I tell the guy; first off, this is not techno, but drum n bass. And second, I get more emotion and feeling from this style of music then any of your poppy, mainstream rap, bullshit. that shut the guy up, and my friend that lent me the cd was was suprised as to how elequently i put that to the guy. My friend was then like DAMN!!!, You told that foo! And he gave me mad daps.
Moral of the story; take the time to educate the uneducated about their definition of 'techno' and other electronic music styles.
p.s. sorry for the long post.
-reZ
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