I agree wiith senslo here. Up here(Toronto area) when you say techno people (in the know or not) assume looped hard banging stuff and they're like "oh my god, not techno...".
I call everything I play Techno though, from early electronic to acid house to detroit, electro, IDM, spoken word, vocal house... whatever if I like it I'll play/listen to it and I'll call it Techno, I think for me it boils to down to the context the record is heard in. People (Bjork for one) have often said to them Techno isn't a genre as much as it is a frame of mind, I happen to agree with that quite a bit. Trevor Wilkes inyerear.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "senslo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:20 PM Subject: [313] techno/house divide (was Peacefrog Records special on BBC) > Ken Odeluga wrote: > > Sounds nice. Not meaning to be arch, but do you guys > > regard Rob Hood as part of the 'house' rubrik? > > Hi > > Good point. I tend to think of the music I'm into as > techno (Detroit stuff, Trapez, Perlon, etc) but > techno's kind of a dirty word around these parts > (because it's been subsumed by the hard monotonous > European variety of techno), so when I'm asked what I > play I say deep electronic house (or sometimes minimal > house, but then minimal's kind of a dirty word too). > At the end of the day techno and house are two ends of > a spectrum, and the distinction is sometimes difficult > to make. Do you think techno as originally defined and > produced by Juan Atkins would be considered techno if > released today? I think it'd probably be called deep > house. But I guess most of Rob Hood's stuff is very > clearly techno, the Nighttime World albums excepted. > And I haven't actually heard the Peacefrog album yet. > > Cheers > > Chris > > > > > > > > > >For people in Sydney: we're starting up a house > > >night on Thursday August 29, and Inertia > (Australian > > >distributors) are giving us copies of Robert Hood's > > >"Point Blank" album to give away on the night. > > > > > >I'll post more details later, but essentially it's > a > > >$6 dollar night at the Hunter Bar in central > Sydney, > > >featuring Declan Kelly from Melbourne's Honkytonks > > >and Research & Development and Simon Caldwell from > > >Sydney's Mad Racket. > > > > > >Cheers > > > > > >Chris > > > http://digital.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Digital How To > - Get the best out of your PC! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
