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Differences between Trance, Ambient, and Techno
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| ali92 |
OK. I listen to Trance and Ambient a lot but not much Techno and I want to write about these Electronic Dance genres in a Classification Essay for my English class due on 2004-07-21 (assigned 2004-07-14). There's isn't a comparative essay so, I won't be writing exactly about the differences; just what exactly they are composed of, average speed, and maybe where are the most ideal places to listen to these forms of music.
The essay is 500 words, 5 paragraphs total. First paragraph is an introduction, next three would talk about each genre, and the last one would conclude the essay. I probably would do my title and introduction paragraph like this:
Three Widely Varying Styles of Electronic Dance Music
Think Techno is all that Electronic music is about? That's where you're wrong, as what will be described in this paper are three destinct styles of Electronic dance music, or Electronica. These styles are known as Trance, Ambient, and Techno. There will be a few elements of each style discussed in this paper that show each style's uniqueness. One of which will be speed, another would be melody, and another will be use of vocals.
Let me know what you think this sounds like. Form an educated opinion. If anyone can gather up any decent official places or texts that I can find online, post the links; as I'd like to cite sources of where I get each claim I make. Thanks very much, everyone. |
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| torontotrance |
Ambient is hard to put into words, it's more of the creative branch of music that tries to put you into another world. Brian Eno is noted as the founder or creator.
Techno was always different, as christian vogel once said, it's like a good shagging, you are doing the same thing everytime but it's always different.
Trance is more riff driven imo |
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| Zayatz |
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Techno_music
| quote: | | Stylistically, techno features an abundance of percussive, synthetic sounds, studio effects used as principal instrumentation, and a fast, regular 4/4 beat in the 130-140 bpm range |
actually it's even faster.... average speed is around 140 bpm |
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| Slylee |
one sucks just a little bit more than the other?
jk
i would imagine it has to do w/ level of basslines, or lack there of in ambient/trance... |
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| ali92 |
That was OK, but it seems I actually must have three sources. The one link was good. I now, need something for the other two (Ambient and Trance). I was thinking about having HyperReal.org (Alt.Rave FAQ) be one of my sources, as it (I think) contains a definition of Trance. I have 5 days left...
I was thinking that if I can't find any decent sources for this by Saturday night (UTC-04/N. Amer. EDT), I'm just going to write the essay describing three calendars (Gregorian, Chinese, and Islamic), as I have at least two sources _right now_ for that.
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Thanks anyway and keep it coming! |
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| aspergian |
| I second the Ishkurian nod. |
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| paranoik0 |
make sure you do point out that ambient, trance and techno are not the only 3 subgenres of EDM.. actually why in hell did you pick these 3, ambient is a bit unrelated compared to trance and techno?
i once did a powerpoint presentation in class about the subgenres of electronic music, back then when i was a n00b, www.audiogalaxy.com helped a bit ;) |
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| j@y |
ambient is for lounges, kind of place when you dont really go there to dance
amon tobin would be an example
also ricardo villalobos |
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| ali92 |
Thanks for the links. For the person who asked why _those_ three: They happen to be my favourite subgenres and they are far apart enough to be considered separate from each other. (After all, Robert Rich's _Wheel of Earth_ isn't very much like, say, a Sven Väth set, is it?)
Again: Thanks. |
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