Agreed. When i was carting about Oliver Lieb last month he dismissed
subgenres because one man's progressive trance is another man's ambient (ok
not literally, but you get my meaning).
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From: "Irene McC" <substar@iafrica.com>
To: <MickPick@aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:41 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] definitions of techno subgenres
quoted 34 lines On 16 Aug 2000, MickPick@aol.com wrote re [idm] definitions of> On 16 Aug 2000, MickPick@aol.com wrote re [idm] definitions of
> techno subgenr:
>
> > what exactly is the definition of house? deep house? any other houses?
>
> Thing with four walls and a roof ... yes I agree, all this defining
> music to the minutest particle is crazy. And Deep House to one is
> Progressive Trance to the next.
>
> To be less flippant, you can read up about the history and
> emergency of "house" in many published books but basically
> anything housey has a 4x4 kickdrum. viz. the Roland 808.
>
> Deep House to me is stretched out disco without the vocals
> (sometimes diva's take a turn) - lots of it is very nice, actually (see
> Daniel Ibbotsen & co).
>
> > what is acid? hard acid? acid house?
>
> Anything "acid" is not (strictly, ha ha) drug related, but refers to the
> squelchy sounds of the TB303.
>
> And so on and so forth.
>
> Have fun finding out :-)
>
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