the way that trance is written accentuates the timing signatures used. typically detroit sequencing "rules" allow for a bit more timing freedoms, thus more swing to the patterns, which may be what you speak of.
you cant pick on a hit on the downbeat tho.. I watch crowds at shows to better understnad what they like in relation to what I like (for my own live sets) and I've seen the crowd visibly and audibly react to the introduction of a hit on the downbeat. I do think that everyone should put their 909s away for 5 years or so tho :) Im pretty sick of *that* open hat. -Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brendan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "fabrice Lig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 5:34 AM Subject: RE: (313) Los hermanos/trancey/Detroit techno... | -----Original Message----- | From: fabrice Lig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 10 December 2002 22:31 | | I know what is trance music...It was huge here. | Could we try to find a list of differences... | On the paper, finaly there is common points... | Melodies, chords, ... | But in the reality... | I give you the first difference ;-) | 1)Detroit music is funky. That's definitely true - I can't remember if it was Eddie Fowlkes or Kevin Saunderson who said "the hardness in techno comes from funk", but I've always seen funk as the main differentiator between Detroit techno and the trance sound. What makes trance unfunky? I think that a large amount of it comes down to the drum programming. Trance producers, I can imagine, must glue over the "shuffle" button on their drum machines so that it can never be turned on. Also, you can imagine that if a trance producer does anything with the hi-hats other than "open hi-hat between each kick drum, closed hi-hat on the beat", he/she would get arrested by the Trance Police for heresy! But even when Detroit records use those most basic of drum patterns, there is still a funk there that you don't find in trance. Why? Brendan
