> Yes, it certainly is true that techno doesn't have verses and choruses but > a lot of techno certainly does follow the four-bar or eight-bar or > sixteen-bar musical form that pop/rock/hip-hop follow. You can even point > out bridges in some techno tracks. But I don't think this is bad per se. > It's what a well done track does with these forms that is important, to me > at least. >
yes that's true. I would rebut however by saying that these are the basic necessity for techno, anything above it is simply decoration... I don't think its bad either, but I was simply using verse and chorus as example... BUT, Detroit techno is indeed a little different in that it is very much tied to jazz and blues, almost equaled to... But the essence of techno is simplicity and repetition, it is the base if you will to all other forms of music... consider this: If you take an elaborate Opera, you can theoretically distill it, all while keeping its general feel, down to techno. Ambient may or may not work, it depends on your approach. But you could distill the Opera down to one crucial segment (which probably was the musical seed for the composer interesting enough) consisting of a few notes, and repeat it... so it could be said that techno is the universal music in that all music can be distilled down to techno... Another example, Beethoven's 9th, the "Ode to Joy" movement. You can easily see that there are simply a few key notes in which the entire symphony is based off of. If you took those key notes, distilled them further into an unrecognizable sound, overlaid it with a simple rhythm, you would have a *powerful* techno track... darw_n "create, demonstrate, toneshift..." http://www.mp3.com/stations/clevelandunderground http://www.mp3.com/darw_n http://www.sphereproductions.com/topic/Darwin.html http://www.mannequinodd.com
