Originally posted by netroM
Tech-Trance is a legit genre
true that. imo one of the few that regularly puts out quality stuff.
dj christian
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Originally posted by netroM
Tech-Trance is a legit genre
No it's not! And i just fixed my list again. Just 4 genres which is more or less the only genres of trance you have to know about.
Bierheld
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Originally posted by netroM
Tech-Trance is a legit genre
Doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. Trance is basically an offshoot of techno whith a more melodic focus. Why have the parent genre as a prefix? 'Trance techno' would be more accurate, but also redundant.
ziptnf
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Originally posted by Salegon
Out of curiousity, which psy-genre is the following track from?
Full-on/prog-psy crossover. Got the bouncy bassline of full-on, but at the speed of progressive.
DJ NyX
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Originally posted by Bierheld
Doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. Trance is basically an offshoot of techno whith a more melodic focus. Why have the parent genre as a prefix? 'Trance techno' would be more accurate, but also redundant.
it just refers to the kind of pattern it uses. less melodicaly based but rhythmical pattern based while the break resembles trance.
stuff like that does not fit into the 4 listed styles.
ziptnf
I don't know why it seems like such a crime to classify music as a certain subgenre, or create a new subgenre for a newer type of sound. I mean, , House has more subgenres than Psy, and Heavy Metal has more subgenres than any of them.
Classic
Epic/Uplifting/Melodic
Hard
Tech
Progressive
for psy I can't be arsed to learn all the divisions. I've always liked "psytekk" on Ishkur's guide.
Trance-MB
Subgenres in general suck.
ziptnf
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Originally posted by Trance-MB
Subgenres in general suck.
Why?
Trance-MB
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Originally posted by ziptnf
Why?
There are way too many and too many tracks fit in multiple subgenres.
Personally I get the impression people also don't notice when a track has a specific sound used in a classic track, next to the sound which puts them in the subgenre.
Everything needs to be labelled nowadays.
Bierheld
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Originally posted by DJ NyX
it just refers to the kind of pattern it uses. less melodicaly based but rhythmical pattern based while the break resembles trance.
stuff like that does not fit into the 4 listed styles.
I don't see why it wouldn't just be "trance". Basing a subgenre on it's rythmic/melodic ratio is far too arbitrary.
Exactly How rhythmic does a track have to be for it to be considered tech-trance?
Pretty much all genres of electronic music are a mix of both elements, with the possible exceptions of tribal, which is technically pure rhythmic music, and a few far reaches of ambient that can be considered purely melodic.
The only other divisions you can make on this front are EDM, which has rythm as it's main focus (makes it danceable) and electronica, which has melody as it's main focus.
This a sensible way to put it I think, and it means that all trance is primarily rythmic music and it shouldn't make a difference if a track is bit more or less melodic.
In fact, trance in itself can be considered a subgenre, in the more melodic regions of techno. And yes, it has grown it's own sound over time, but that still makes adding a techno prefix redundant in my opinion.
