Americans are generally (<-- Key word) ignorant of the fact that any electronic is "techno". I think it stems from the world "technology" which means any digitalized form of music. But there are a good number of TAs and others that can tell you the differences and identify trance from techno. I am a hardcore uplifting trance fanatic, and guess what... I'm Asian-American...

As everyone said, I find techno to be far more hard pounding on the bass and raw sounding. Trance is more melodic and has very distinct parts to it (it can be heard).

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Naw, you gotta keep it simple for the simple people:

Techno = fast disco made of machine noises/sneezes/whatever and a bunch of angry guys stomping the floor
Trance = a broken washing machine and 40 accordions in a big echo-y cave

"But why do you listen to that shit??"

I dunno.

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Originally posted by Taz Naw, you gotta keep it simple for the simple people: Techno = fast disco made of machine noises/sneezes/whatever and a bunch of angry guys stomping the floor Trance = a broken washing machine and 40 accordions in a big echo-y cave "But why do you listen to that shit??" I dunno.

Hahahahahahaha that just about sums it up.

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Originally posted by Taz Naw, you gotta keep it simple for the simple people: Techno = fast disco made of machine noises/sneezes/whatever and a bunch of angry guys stomping the floor Trance = a broken washing machine and 40 accordions in a big echo-y cave "But why do you listen to that shit??" I dunno.

LMFAO!

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Originally posted by AC. How about hese techno tracks: Westwood Bros. Meets Schall & Rauch - Micrologic Fabio Mc - Percutor M Fabio Mc - Tortured (Mad tune!) Mauro Picotto - Hong Kong Mauro Picotto - We're Back what other tracks am i missing out?

Well, i love all them tunes u mentioned, so u will prob also like:
Mauro Picotto : -
Baguette
Bangkok ( love it)
Freetown
Cyberfood

But, I still like trance better due to the emotion contained in the songs and the lovely melodies

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I wanted to reply to this one cause I've had people say they hate trance when its really techno.
To me techno is very rude sounding with loud synths and a loud beat.
Trance is soothing with orchestral melodies and sometimes female vocals. Also trance is (I think) 96 BPM while techno is a lot faster.

96 bpm?

that's pretty fuggin slow. are you sure? hear's a sample of 96 bpm for ya (it's a 6 second mp3, total filesize= 24.8k)

www.angelfire.com/games4/gloriousddr/mp3s/96.mp3

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