Industrial, techno, trance, trip hop, d&b, jungle.. is it all the same stuff?

[Guest]

.. goa,acid jazz, progressive trance and so forth

 

or better yet, what I heard recently : Goa/Psy-trance

 

Is there a difference?

 

Seems like it's just trendy to call your style of music something new.

 

We lived with Rock and Roll as a label for a long time. And there's a hell of a lot more variation there than any of these styles put together.

 

Seems like we need a high pass filter to 'filter' some of the noise off... or maybe some chlorine in the pool of ideas.

[Anderton]

>>We lived with Rock and Roll as a label for a long time. And there's a hell of a lot more variation there than any of these styles put together.<<

 

Folk rock, progressive rock, acid rock, jazz rock, punk rock, pomp rock, heavy metal, death metal, industrial, country rock, soft rock, grunge, pop rock, alt rock, surf music...

 

Seems rock has had quite a few variations on a theme, too! Yet how many upset parents have said "rock and roll all sounds the same?"

 

The following article with give you a little more background on the differences between various dance music styles, check it out:

 

http://www.musicplayer.com/CDA/Player/Main/1,2228,Lessons-Keyboardist-5000461,00.html

[Guest]

Ok Craig, my post was half trying to be obnoxious and half saying the truth about what I really feel. But then again I admit I don't know too much about these styles.

 

Thanks for the link, though. I'll download the mp3s and check it out.

 

Point taken on the variations of rock.

 

I was hoping someone was going to bite my head off with that comment :-)

 

Rod

[dansouth]

Yeah, it's all the same - robot music. I'd like to hear ANY of these techno assholes write something for string quartet. On second thought, I WOULDN'T like to hear it. :-P

 

Gotta love all of the cutesy little names they come up with. Guess they have lots of spare time since they never have to PRACTICE AN INSTRUMENT.

[Guest]

Dan you're the man! Let's try to get this shit rolling now.

 

Boy, I wouldn't let these boys anywhere near an instrument that actually has to be played. If it doesn't have an arpeggiator, a groove quantize function, a TB emulator, a beat slicer, drenched reverb they wouldn't know what to do with it.

[industriac]

hmm...actually, alot of those genres existed back in the 80s and in the 70s, in the case of industrial. Back then keyboard technology wasnt as advanced and alot of those old artists did some pretty cool stuff with it.

 

As technology advanced, it became easier to do certain things and more electronic musicians were able to do more. Nowadays, alot of them take the options on their keyboards and modules for granted. And, I wouldnt be surprised if it would be harder for them to write music without that 54 different, and you can program your own, appegiator.

 

Are these genres all the same? Probably not. Also, alot of the named genres are sub-genres. They all have their distinct sound even though bands nowadays mix in different genres in their music.

 

Kraftwerk - pretty much the band who started the eletronic music revolution...amazing what they did with the equipment available back then.