> > Not only can you make a distinction in the melody but the > type of sounds being used.
Disagree; trance borrows a lot of it's sounds from techno. > > I disagree early Detroit techno sounds like a fusion of > Kraftwerk/ Euro dance with Chicago > house. Could you name some examples? Of course I know Juan, Derrick and all were definately influenced by Kraftwerk, but I don't hear that so directly in their production. Ok maybe their sounds were used a lot, but definately not their way of composing. > It wasn't revolutionary to Western music. > It's music that came from the drum machine era, the drum > machine and sequencer more or less influenced the techno sound. Disagree again, a lot of music was already using drum machines and sequencers for years. hi-nrg, new wave, italo, house. But all that music still consisted of songs. You know, chorus, refrain, chorus. Acid house and later techno were the first to break from that tradition. > > Trance and progressive is basically an update to the 80's > Euro dance/ Hi-NRG music although > you do hear the influence of techno and house with the use of > the TR-909. Take the vocals out of Erasure, the music Vince > Clarke pioneered and you hear the similarities. I think you're confusing trance with electroclash here. > > this seems to be a common trend. > I still enjoy the occasional hard banging techno track with > innovative elements like Switched On Blades. Techno is like > an outcast amongst the dance genres a lot of people fall back > on 'house' or retro dance music like electro or Italo-disco > conforming to trend and conventionalism because they lack > vision when it comes to futuristic > abstract music. Or the techno records that are being released are simply not that revolutionary anymore so they start looking for other stuff that can trigger their needs. And they realise that because they were almost exclusively listening to techno over all those years, they neglected some great other types of music. So they simply want to catch up. In my case it doesn't have anything to do with the nostalgia trend. Regarding electro and house it's much more about (re)discovery. I still listen to a lot of hard techno. I just hardly buy anything form detroit anymore. German producers like Ricardo Villalobos, Heiko Laux or Alter ego are much more groundbreaking nowadays.
