quoted 9 lines I was wondering... Are the sounds (instruments, whatever) used in intelligent> I was wondering... Are the sounds (instruments, whatever) used in intelligent
> dance music the most important point, or is it the song itself (i.e., a
> weird eery lead could be replaced by a new age pad and you'd find it as
> interesting)? Is it sound fetishism, and could we go as far as to say that
> the difference between all the techno genre is not the construction, but
> the sounds? (at least perceived by the majority?)
>
> If this has been beaten to death already, sorry... i'm back only today
> on the list after quite a while (very long time to be exact) off.
Nope, I'd disagree completely. That's rather like saying that the
important difference between classical music and rock music is the
instruments that it's played on.
I agree that techno is perhaps more preoccupied than many musical
genres with creating interesting sounds, but there are a large number
of different genres out there, and they differ in far more important
ways than simply using different patches on the synths....
Cosmic