i think these genre classification things are regional.
In Britain, or at least with people i know, everything started out as
techno. Warp was the first label diverging from the more mainstream with
things like LFO and Nightmares on Wax, but it was all still techno.
to me it just comes from'technological music' which is simply electronic
music. Later with so many sub genres forming, the umbrella term techno
became subverted to refer to a sub-genre as well. Terms and names change
as time moves on and some people hold onto the old meaning whereas other
people take the new meaning. In the States, even though Detroit Techno was
one of the forerunners and the disco/garage scene from NY, techno in one
form was created and named from the late 80's/early 90's British Rave
scene, which didn't seem to come back to the states again until a few years
later and by that time it was already splintered and arriving under
different names and guises.
Garage music is another example of this, which to me is old Masters at
Work and that New York sound that came from disco music and the whole Larry
Levan type scene, whereas now it gets used to refer to the UK 2 Step
stuff.
i dislike genre definitions, and getting dragged into debates on them,
it's all just music, and the people making it don't say 'well i'm gonna
make an electronica track today, but maybe this afternoon i'll make
half-fat-double-decaf-tech-house track'
-thor
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, nlo gax wrote:
quoted 16 lines and i was thinking it was simply 'electronic' music
> and i was thinking it was simply 'electronic' music
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> >Techno is the master genre. It defines the category of electric music >we
> >listen to.
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