techno nikb melodic noise. percussive, flowing, violent. like an electronic stabwound. 990327 ... emma i don't like it. i'll listen to real instruments until the world blows up. 990328 ... adam fatboy slim. i shan't say more on the subject. 990328 ... kyo I would say blather is pretty techno 990328 ... drew i think it's kinda snobbish, but i feel insulted when someone asks me, "so, you like techno?"... the word somehow conjures up in my mind images of some meat-market/dance club with a buncha vapid premadonnas (of both sexes) bumpn n grindn to snap, or aqua, or some similarly cliched diva-esque pop sound with a metronomed bass beat. yet it's useless to reply "no, but i do enjoy electronic music.", because the distinction means nothing to them. still, i try to remove myself from that poular 'techno' peghole by playing some of my faves for them... autechre, m-ziq, or one of my planet 9 tapes. they still don't differentiate the two. at first i thought maybe i was getting old and holding tight to some sonic manifestation of a past youth, like some neo-hippie, merely unable to recognize the progression of music. but i still really get into new stuff... when it's done well. it seems rather elitist, but there is a pronounced difference between 'techno' and 'electronic music', just as there is between blink182 and fugazi... you know what i'm talking about... i can't be the only snob here. 990329 ... anonymous vivid like too many colors melted together and thriving in a pattern. a mechanism. dark tunnels, an embryo of sound. liquid fever and ecstasy. swirling rythmically. 990330 ... groovinkim electronic sounds have no boundaries, ever-expanding. some say it lacks emotion - but to me it drowns me in emotion, buries me, i am underwater, and feel refreshed and rejuvenated when finally i surface. techno brings me much joy and hope for the future. 990615 ... troy ...seems to lack a cohesive definition among most people. It gets confused with "House", "Trance", and several other club-styles which definitely share some common-roots, but which are all quite distinct from each-other. With all the mixing, borrowing, and blending going-on, it's no wonder that the lines of definition are blurred, and that most people don't recognize any of the differences when exposed to it. Some of it is completely SOUL-LESS DRIVEL, while some of it snatches-up the SOUL WITH OVERDRIVEN ENERGY AND ROCKETS IT INTO A BRILLIANT UNIVERSE OF UNEXPLAINABLE ECSTACY. It does seem, though, that the SOUL-LESS DRIVEL is becoming the most popular form of it heard at the clubs. Popular, at-least, in the sense that it is the most commonly played. And so the youngest-sheep, having no experience with anything else, embrace it and flop-around to it's overused limited-rythyms and melody-less, flat-droning, unimaginatively-strung sequencer-driven 'samples', which have had their original melody-lines flattened into depressingly dissapointing mono-toned 'loops', which do NOT satisfy the ear, but instead DENY the ear and soul the original UPLIFTING substance which made it popular-enough in the 1st-place to be desired for sampling. -Kids; I know the world is in tough-shape, but lighten-up a little and have at-least *some* frivolous *fun*, o.k.? :) 991212 ... jules I agree with Troy on his explanation of techno but I would like to educate some more. Not to be an ass but I don't think most of you guys on this thread know what techno is. I personally am not much of a fan of the "heartless" type of techno that has become popular in slightly-underground-type clubs. Its persistent train-like rhythms seem to be the main part of the music. And when synth lines of various types are added they are usually masked by the dj's over-E.Q.ing giving the mix too much bass. From my experiences with techno people I have come to think that the incessant repitition doesn't bother them much because they don't usually dance for long periods of time and they just want a really hard beat for the short periods of time they do dance for. Oldskool techno, breakbeat techno, and hardcore techno, however are a totally different story. All of these genres of music usually have very melodic synth lines as their main driving forces. Breakbeat techno is the original British "rave" music and it died out in 94 to pave the way for both jungle/dnb, modern breakbeat, and hardcore techno/happy hardcore. Happy hardcore is my favorite music. I bet that some of the music all of you listen to is also related to techno in some way! Oh, and Aqua are related to techno but are not techno. To all who put down music you do not know about: please open up your minds! Thanks! James (dj tyco) 000128 ... Brad one word.... EEEEEK (BOOM chick BOOM chick...) 000411 ... MollyGoLightly Music for the ineveitable robot revolution! 000411 ... miniver Sounds like very angular watermelon. I like it. But, then,...I like most things that have the potential to give me that tragic feeling in the pit of my belly. This feeling, I am finding, is not always particularly discriminate, and includes an amazingly large list of what would seem to be conflicting never-to-be-called-"genres" of music; also includes infatuation/lust (sometimes called "love"); an horrifying exploding poptart commercial that I spied onna tele today; occasionally, philosophical disgust (which may or may not include the exploding poptarts)...umm. 000411 ... grasshopper I have heard some beautiful electronica. Take your 100 most favorite songs, sample every part you like, and figure out a way to string certain samples into songs along with other sounds that are meaningful to you (animal sounds, household sounds, sounds from movies and tv, life sounds). It isn't easy, but the possible results are infinite and can be beautiful and the most personal music ever created. 000502 ... Brad Yeah, but John Cage does the same thing, and it's much hipper. 000502 ... gregg spending several hours at a club can be a very spiritual phenomena with the right music and the right people, just as sitting in ones room with headphones on can be. the pulsating, rhythmic, repetitive beats and sounds mirror who we actually are as spiritual beings and the sound waves can act as currents that you can link your mind into (or link into as yourself) and become that wavelength, thus moving out of the time stream, and what you do from there is up to you... (underworld are particularly good at creating this type of music as well as many artists on the blue room label as i'm sure many of you already know) 000521 ... silentbob techno is NOT MY BAG! 000615 ... Bell R Classical music on speed... es muy bueno, no? 010116 ... twiggie i love to lay on my bed, turn off the lights, and only leave a blue light or the lava lamp on. then i turn on goldie, and close my eyes, and just listen. it's lovely. 010116 ... DanetteTN915 Beats that move my body from the inside out. The bass begins to make the cytoplasm inside each cell vibrate, shaking my cell walls, my blood rushing faster, moving my muscles, until my entire being is completely encompassed in motion. Time for a water break, since apparently this young sheep can't dance for long periods of time... 010331 ... eklektic it bothers me slightly, when people say techno is useless noise. its totally an art-form, just like any other type of sound or music. trance is by far the best type of techno to listen to. you can totally connect with someone when listening to trance. or you can get up and liquid. it doesn't matter. be happy hardcore or DnB...or take a trip to Ibiza. it doesn't matter. but techno is one of my favorite genres - truly fantastical. 020426 ... Gilraen (s.h.o.t.h) Duel Of The Fates (Techno Remix) 030810 ... Fire&Roses http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html The System Is Down 030810 ... noun I find it interesting how most people I know who like techno are usually on something. 030810 ... divine madness dipped into an infinite world of rhythum and beats that nothing can overcome. Like a high, only where techno is the drug. To get lost into its realm of fantasies and ideas, those concoctions from the djs that make such techno...o is it so? 040114 ... 7 i think i know drew. music is a form of art. what usually attracts or repels us from various forms of art, is our ability to relate with the piece &/or the artist. i've always felt that good art is basically therapy for the artist, it's something they feel compelled to express. If there is no connection between artist and the artwork, much of the appeal is gone. I think, when people put down electronic repetitiveness that's really what's going on, they're feeling distanced from the art and the expression because they're feeling cheated, like having fifty xerox copies of the mona lisa (well...so what?). with any art form tho, the people who lack appreciation are the unfortunate ones who are really missing out. Equally unfortunate is the fact that most major record companies are unwilling to go out on a limb to try to launch new styles of music. 040115 ... skinny its completely inorganic... i mean it can be organic or have organic elements but its made electronically... it just seems like it would be hard to get the same sound out of a of a midi thingy as hitting a drum. but its kind of really creative and sacriligeous which is whats so great about it, especially industrial music. i dont know if that falls under techno. 040521 ... falling_alone the bass is making the walls shake. bump bump ba bump bump stop boom boom boom boom boom ba ba stop ba bump bump ba bump bumpbummp 051014 ... grendel Orff's "O Fortuna" as reinterpreted by Apotheosis... oooh 061101 ... when darkness falls i like old-skool acid techno and the one also known as 'schranz.' 061101 ... () ( kraftwerk ) 061101 ... Shinnokxz okay so which techno? 061207 ... ef3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl3b5uvW-NA 150301 what's it to you? who go blather from