quoted 10 lines What annoys me is the amount of people that think trance is techno.> > What annoys me is the amount of people that think trance is techno.
>
>...to which I say :
>
>There is a HUGE thread imbedded here. I think there are a lot of people who
>can't tell the difference at all...and this leads me to elaborate on something
>you mention below (sorta) - *I* think there is a great, fixed gulf
>between what
>we used to call trance back in the early-mid 90s and what is schlepped off for
>
it seems like the curse of trance is that some of it is the most
mainstream electronic dance music out there, and, as such,
constitutes a sort of crappy pop-disco. pop-song chord changes,
exhausted synth sounds, dumbass 'soaring' melodies and bombastic drum
rolls...
but obviously it's not all like that. (and there's certainly enough
four on the floor techno driven by hammering sixteen-note synth lines
that one could be forgiven for believing the two genres were somehow
related.)
milling around the record store I've been checking out some
psychedelic trance singles and thought that some of it sounded great
in a tripped-out electro kinda way, seemingly shorn of many of the
problems I have with trance. anyone know about this stuff and think
that any of it meets the impeccably high standards of IDM?
kurt
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