So we've nailed it down to a massive difference in interpretation of the word "techno". So by your definition things like "Sonic Sunset" aren't techno either; it has to have a hard looping 909 to be "techno". Oh, and not sound "very European" (which immediately discounts early Model 500, Kraftwerk, and, of course, Drumcode).
I personally tend to perceive a lot of the Drumcode-type stuff as "hard house", because it doesn't have that element of futurism that I feel differentiates techno from house. And because so many of those producers sample Todd Terry all the time! So we return to this "definition of techno" thing. Derrick May said it's like Kraftwerk and George Clinton stuck in an elevator - so you obviously disagree with him (Drumcode would only sound like that if Kraftwerk and Clinton had all been killed and the elevator was plummeting at supersonic speed towards the Earth's core). Jeff Mills says it's an attempt to describe concepts of the future through sound, that it should sound like "nothing you'v ever heard before" - so obviously you disagree with him too. Out of interest, what is *your* definition of techno? Brendan | -----Original Message----- | From: spw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 12 February 2003 16:07 | To: Andrew; 313@hyperreal.org | Subject: Re: (313) t-1000 interview (techno rant) | | | on 2/12/03 10:39 AM, Andrew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > Beau Mot Plage | | That's not techno, that's tech-house/ micro-house, kind of | reminds me of | that old Moog record Popcorn sounds very European. | |
