Techno or Tekno?
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ChrisFilter
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Techno... used to like tekno, but doesn't hold much interest for me anymore.
Blagsta said:
Don't know nowt about prog-house but I agree that Prodigy were hardcore but I'd also say that these terms are sub-categories of electronic music as a whole..
..so for the majority of people who don't know terms like prog/electro/jackin etc, those artists would be electronic music which to me would mean techno..
..I think that with some electronic music, it's only with experience and the benefit of a bit of time that you can categorise them in those sorts of genres..when they first come out they are either so revolutionary or different that only after a few subsequent similiar releases can they be categorised and given their own sub-category..I'd guess that the first tune to use a 303 I'd guess wasn't instantly labelled "acid"..likewise the first breakbeat tunes that started to come out weren't labelled breakbeat..they were just labelled "techno"releases..#
..maybe
But tekno to me is just a sub-category of techno..I've only really noticed it being used in the past few years anyway..
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Blagsta
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bang said:Don't know nowt about prog-house but I agree that Prodigy were hardcore but I'd also say that these terms are sub-categories of electronic music as a whole..
..so for the majority of people who don't know terms like prog/electro/jackin etc, those artists would be electronic music which to me would mean techno..
..I think that with some electronic music, it's only with experience and the benefit of a bit of time that you can categorise them in those sorts of genres..when they first come out they are either so revolutionary or different that only after a few subsequent similiar releases can they be categorised and given their own sub-category..I'd guess that the first tune to use a 303 I'd guess wasn't instantly labelled "acid"..likewise the first breakbeat tunes that started to come out weren't labelled breakbeat..they were just labelled "techno"releases..#
..maybe
But tekno to me is just a sub-category of techno..I've only really noticed it being used in the past few years anyway..
Electronic music is not the same thing as techno though. Otherwise you could call Britney Spears techno, which is absurd.
Blagsta said:
A lot of mainstream reviewers would probably use the term "techno-pop" or something similiar for a release by people like that which had a 4/4 beat that didn't fit the usual "disco" label though..I can remember U2's Pop album being called similiar things when that came out..
..and I did say "Techno for me is a term that encompasses most electronic music"..
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milesy said:
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tekno is onket backwards so it must be shit !
Maybe absurd to some people who have more than a passing knowledge of electronic music or are interested in pigeonholing music..
..but historically speaking and looking at electronic music as a very basic spider-diagram - I reckon techno would be the main body or the "daddy"..other stuff like dnb of which Congo Natty and Burial via a dubstep subcategory would be splinters off from it..
..but historically speaking and looking at electronic music as a very basic spider-diagram - I reckon techno would be the main body or the "daddy"..other stuff like dnb of which Congo Natty and Burial via a dubstep subcategory would be splinters off from it..
Orang Utan
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er, no. House and electro came before techno, so by using your reasoning, techno is a branch of these genres.
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as i am old school and a tad uncool - i call it all techno/tekno if it sounds like techno/tekno,I didnt know there was two different meanings for techno/tekno i just thought it was just different spellings for the word. iykwim
am I really uncool now?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Why not?zenie said:no need to be a snob and slag one or the other off IMO
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
It isn't necessarily, but if viewing one form of music as inferior and more worthless than another is snobbish, then I'm happy to be a snob.Dubversion said:
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Not to me, slagging stuff off is way more fun than praising it.zenie said:Cos it's boring after a while?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I do it with joy though, not with resentment
zenie said:I think he just means beacuse the name comes from technology?
So genres after techno can still be under the same heading as techno?
*confuses self*
You are sort of right in thinking where I am coming from..I do believe that in a general sense, not a "pigeonhole this genre" sense that music made using technology can be classed as techno - simply by definition..
Well, you could easily say that Jungle/DnB stems just as much from the reggae/funk (even hip hop) scenes as techno. It just seems a vast oversimplification to pool everything under some generic techno tab- there was certainly a distaste for much early house/techno for many in London's hardcore scene - rightly or wrongly much electronic music was seen as too gay/white for some to follow.
Partly you can see the use of breaks (the amen especially) and samples prevalent in much early drum and bass, with the use of rhythm patterns and rough cuts much more pronounced. Techno traditionally, was more creating something from scratch.
Partly you can see the use of breaks (the amen especially) and samples prevalent in much early drum and bass, with the use of rhythm patterns and rough cuts much more pronounced. Techno traditionally, was more creating something from scratch.
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