All these faults seem to beg the question: (to me at least) if trance so crap, why do so many millions of people like ?
The answer, if we care to face it, will lead us back to something dark and sad about human nature. k >-----Original Message----- >From: Jernej Marusic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 10:52 AM >To: 'Brendan Nelson'; 'fabrice Lig'; 313@hyperreal.org >Subject: RE: (313) Los hermanos/trancey/Detroit techno... > > >Don't forget the unfunky tr*nce bass lines. I don't know if I ever heard >a tr*nce track that didn't have either one bass not between each kick >drum (pk pow pk pow...), or an arpaggiated 3 note bass line that goes >"tadadam tadadam ...". I've challenged some people I know who play >tr*nce to name me one track with different bass line, and they we're >unable to :) >I'm talking of modern tr*nce, as there seamed to be more diversity in >what was classified as tr*nce pre 95 or something. > > >Jernej >www.soundoflj.com/octex > >-----Original Message----- >From: Brendan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 11. december 2002 11:34 >To: fabrice Lig; 313@hyperreal.org >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 > > >
