Lots of people don’t know the difference of any of the different styles of the electronic music. If you go back to the history of actual sound of contemporary trance, back on early 90's you will find a lot of techno and house mixed into it. Just around the mid 90's the trance music found their on path, then expanding into their on variations. These people cant see that trance music is related with a spiritual state of mind that techno cant achieve.

WTF? Trance isn't techno?

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Originally posted by Redd WTF? Trance isn't techno?

that made me smile, for all the right reasons

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Originally posted by |cEbLu3 that made me smile, for all the right reasons

+1 lol

ppl always ask me "Do you rave?" - cus i listen to "techno"

much will power goes into not slapping ppl

seeing this thread is kinda funny cus i had a girl on my economics class ask me yesterday if i rave

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Originally posted by RickyM Next thread - trance for listening to when you are halfway down the stairs in your house...

it's because techno was born first,hence the dance music is associated with techno,people that say "techno" imply dance music in general, but not as a specific genre...to them trance,house,gabba - are all techno...it's like a second name for dance music...trance has more emotions in its melodies, techno is more deep and can be very dark sometimes,especially hard techno...it's a massive difference...people won't get it till they listen to it...there is such a difference between the two genres.
yeah same with rave..."do u listen to RAVE music...?"

...duh..!?

Well the thig is unless a person really tries to find it (especially here in Sask, Canada), no one will ever in their lifetime hear enough trance or tehno to ever tell the difference. They honestly don't have any idea that an actual genre called "techno" exists.
So the word techno is the word for anything that in electronically made.

A shot in the dark here: Maybe because techno is created using "technology" rather than "acoustics"? So, as opposed to rock - where the lead element is guitar and real band, techno is all technology - synths, samples, computers, etc and could be a one-man band?

Furthermore, the early popularized EDM was techno and industrial. I started with the likes of 808 State, Front 242, Nine Inch Nails, on one end of the spectrum and then Lords of Acid, Information Society, KMFDM, Juno Reactor, Skinny Puppy on another end and Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys (plus eurodance) in between. Eventually that lead me up to more and more EDM-oriented stuff.

The initial crash course in EDM was with XYZ label Techno compilations. Who can forget "James Brown is Dead" or "Infected with a Poison"? Back then I don't think that diversification as now was commonplace. You had house music - which sounded nothing like the house you hear today. It was closer to R&B than to Trance. And then it was techno - which was clearly off to the side on its own. So, that's what probably stuck.

What's funny is that one of my co-workers heard my music and said - hey I like Techno! I winced and told him that this wasn't techno, it was prog. Later, I found out that he liked Piccotto and Piu - go figure, the man did like Techno, after all!!!

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Originally posted by Sunquest Does anyone else think melodic trance is dying?

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Originally posted by Swamper Trance is dead. All the people listening to it now are dead too. Registered Ghosts: 43,900 217,667 threads in total | 3,722,184 posts in total Currently Active Dead Users: 608

ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9/10 ppl can't differentiate between a techno set and a trance set.

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Why is it people associate all electronic music with techno and not trance?

They don't! This is what the uninformed America calls all electronic music. Nobody else!

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I agree with the person who said it is like the classification of the rock genre.

the most commen comment is that 'techno' always sounds the same...whenever someone here hears a heavy drum beat, thats what they think. The problem is that...in this part of the country at least, is that there is not enough exposure to trance, the radio stations play everything but electronic music, and wherever there is some good trance, its in the dense urban centers, but I've given up telling friends that its trance I listen to, they can't make the distinction having grown up not listenening to it.