Techno/Trance v.s. Other

Do you like techno/trance or mostly other types of music?

 

Thank you, that was a perfect reply.

 

I love techno. But I also love classic and psychedelic rock, reggae, metal, and everything in between. And I have "learned" about real sounds. I play 8 instruments, and yet I still frequently use a drum machine to make up beats. It actually involves some level of skill, it too, is an instrument that needs learning.

Techno, industrial, electronica, dance, etc... I really dig the beat, anything with a really strong rhythm is cool in my book. And it's fucking sweet to dance to. It's a refreshing change from say, metal, which is what I listen to most of the time. There's nothing wrong with electronically generated music.

 

*what michael said* and a little to add...

In my mind techno isn't even music, it's computer generated sounds... To make music you have to use musical instruments, like guitars, drums and all thatwich you would find in 'band/music class' (whatever it's called in english).
And personally I don't think a mixing pult is a musical instrument, it's just a device designed to fake it...

I know some people will say that it is music because it has a beat and that stuff, but think about this then.

For a effervescent white wine to be a champagne, it have to be made in champagne... Even tho it might be the same thing, it's not a champagne unless made there.
On that basis I declare that techno isn't music, unless unless musical instruments are used in the making.

I voted other too

And that kids, was me throwing mud at techno Hehe, I just hate it...

 

I love all types of music, techno amongst them!

I am not sure about the organic inorganic thing, I think that artists such as Ritchie Hawtins manage to create really organic sounding tracks from inorganic instruments....I think it is a good versus bad argument, there is good and there is bad music of all types!

 

And this is one fight bad will allways win!!! Metal rocks!

 

METAL! \m/(>_<)\m/

But techno is schweet too.

I have come up with experimental technogrind. Techno beats plus grindcore vocals, speed, and guitar. It's orgasmic. Listen to The Berzerker, and you'll have sort of what it sounds like. Industrial Technogrind.

 

Classic Rock...I'm so sick of techno....it's all my sister listens to....i can't get away from it...its teh same thing...over and over again.....
I vote other (Mainly Classic Rock)

 

I love psy-trance.

 

You may think so personally, but as a matter of fact [size=-1]A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. In principle, anything that produces sound, and can somehow be controlled by a musician, can serve as a musical instrument; but the expression is reserved generally to items that have that specific purpose.

If certain sounds are musical or not doesn't depend on the tool (instrument) that has been used to create the sound, but on the composition of the sounds itself. I.e. the musician.
There are bad musicians in every genre and good ones too.
The variety of "techno" is huge and there are many different styles.
I think that people who categorically reject electronic music are either very closedminded, or just haven't explored the genre much.

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Most people I know that love electronic music appreciate all sorts of other music as well. From my experience these people are more openminded towards different styles of music than people that claim they can judge what "real sounds" are and what aren't.
And if a certain type of music touches you and if you can feel magic in it is a very personal thing and nothing you can generalise about.
Sorry, but you come across as quite arrogant.

 

I've always enjoyed old and new rock, blues, reggae, jazz,etc (anyone heard Dizzy Gillespie live '67 somewhere, or bootleg Jimi playing the Blues).
I never enjoyed house, etc till about '97 after I had my first pill (pink champaige - scary stuff), but anyway I have learned to love trance for its basic beats and loops,etc. Does having been to outdoor trance gatherings with appropriate toys perhaps awaken your mind to electronic music. I still enjoy my rock,etc, but I find trance music in the background while working or driving is cool.

 

I'm open for a lot of genres, but I'm pretty sure techno isn't on top of my list. I've learned to appreciate it, though, because in the past I didn't like it at all. I'm not very good in telling if something is techno, or trance, or whatever, but I like Mylo and Underworld - I don't know which genre they are specificly, though.

 

music is music. sometimes, the only distinctions between techno and bop are instrumentation and the distinct tone that real life lends as opposed to a MIDI patch. when you exclude yourself from trying other genres than your own favorite, you're really just stunting your musical growth.

expand your horizons is my motto; i didnt vote

 

haha

 

It's the year 2005 people, i can't believe that people are still ignorant enough to say that rock/techno sucks, it annoys the shit out out me. If music raises your spirits, it is spiritual. it's not even debatable as its all down to personal preference. All music goes hand in hand. techno or other? pfffft? the question should be pretentious money making crap or music made to make people feel good. All music genres are amazing if you ask me, but not all music. Some rock sucks and so does some techno. 2005, come on!

 

Can I ask those of you who don't like Techno what kind of Techno you have been listening to?

I ask this because there is, like in any genre of music, some really crap techno out there, and it's usually the kind of techno that the masses listen to, which really does require no skill to regurgitate at all.

However there are intelligent dance musicians out there, some who work exclusively with computer generated sound, and others who mix more classical instruments with computer generated sounds.

This kind of music really does require skill. Not just in how to use the countless software applications, mixers, samplers not even just how to use all the external devices such as keyboards, groove boxes etc, but also in understanding what actually constitutes sound in the first instance and how to successfully manipulate that sound to produce something that is exciting and new.

Anyone who says Techno music isn't organic just needs to go see any decent dance act, and watch them interact with a d-beam (which acts kinda like a theremin) it really is fascinating stuff and when the movement of your body, a wave of the hand, a twist, a turn, is defining the sound that is produced, it's pitch, it's tone, you cannot get more organic than that.

I don't discount any type of music. I used to do this in the past, but I have come to discover that good music is good music no matter what genre it belongs to.

"Techno" has become a huge umbrella term for many different types of electronic music, from the more hardcore dancefloor beats, drum and base, and garage, to the more chilled and relaxing ambient and trance tracks.

Even if you don't like it "bangin man" it would be difficult NOT to find something in the genre to your tastes.

For the sceptics out there, might I suggest an album called "Lifeforms" by a band called "Future Sound of London" (FSOL) for starters. It HAS to be one of thee most "organic" musical compilations out there imho.

Just try it and see. If you don't like it, then at least you have opened yourself up to a new musical experience, and that can never be a bad thing.

 

I LOVE electronic music!!! I love trance, house, hard house, funky house, break beats and soooooo much more!!! I mean really, there are so many different types of electronic music that you would have to listen to each kind in order to say that you do or do not like it. I have the feeling that most people who put that they don't like it have only listened to one type of electronic music or only one style.
Most people like house music because it actually has words in it; unlike some other forms of electronic music.
ELECTRONIC MUSIC KICKS ASS!!!!!!!

 

Funny thing is I can be pounding concrete at a Devil Driver show one day and coasting with Shpongle the next. Psytrance was my biggest and still is to a degree but lately it's been more Orbish and Namlook type stuff because that's what I'm trying my hand at producing, because it speaks to me creatively. Who knows, next week I could go on a bluegrass trip or just unplug completely and decide I'll just hang out with my tablas and a didge. Music is one of the greatest parts of being alive and being human, why limit that?

 

I like Celtic music. After that, I like world music. Of course, I still enjoy the old rock I grew up on, but I also listen to classical, blues, folk, bluegrass and barbershop quartet style gospel. Can't admit to liking jazz; country gives me a headache; and despise rap.

On the other side of that coin, I compose electronic music on my computer. Some call it trance (I call it New Rave). I have completed over forty titles, and have been reviewed on Splendid. The software I use employs small recorded wave files of actual music: "riffs". I enjoy electronic music except for the non-visionary and vulgar.

 

yeah i quite like psy-trance too. i dont care much for techno music though its fun to dance to