It's hard to really draw a concrete line between early techno and house. To
my ears they overlapped quite heavily and made the break several years later
as we distinguish them now.
Take for instance the "Shari Vari" track by Number of Names which was
released in 1981 (or thereabouts)... definitely post-disco but an extension
of that entire culture of music, along with something very new. A lot of
people consider this the first techno release from Detroit but it has in
many ways the makings of a house record, so I don't necessarily think it's
all that clear-cut a distinction when you go pretty far back. When it comes
down to it, it's all dance music. Some people just dance to the beat of a
different drum machine. ;-)
By the way, "Shari Vari" was just reissued on vinyl by Puzzlebox, and it
includes a string of stellar remixes from Scan 7, Strand, Ectomorph, Adult,
Eddie Fowlkes and more... there are a few duds but mostly this is a great
set of mixes. It's the first time the track has appeared outside of a mix
compilation and on vinyl in a number of years.
quoted 22 lines Well, if you're gonna get all historical about it, techno is not
>Well, if you're gonna get all historical about it, techno is not
>(chronologically) the grandaddy of all modern electronic music genres.
>House
>has been around in one form or another since the fall of disco, and unless
>you count kraftwerk as being the techno genre unto themselves, it predates
>what most would consider techno.
>
>So IDM should be listed under house now? :)
>
>>Because techno is the grandaddy of all modern electronic music genres.
>>
>>Before anyone was listening to house, jungle, breakbeat, trance, IDM, etc.
>>they were listening to Techno. Everything after that is just a sub-genre.
>>Techno is actually a very logical place to put IDM.
>>
>>12 years ago if someone asked me what kinda music I listened to I'd say
>>"techno". So, as far as I'm concerned everything that came after is just
>>an
>>interpretation of the genre.
>>
>>Techno is the master genre. It defines the category of electric music we
>>listen to.
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