----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Sicko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Phonopsia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "M. Todd Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [313] technology
> >>Trance in its roots was a marketing tool to identify techno with melody > > That's a real shame that the definition of "techno" had degraded that > quickly in the early 90s, don't you think? > > -d Point taken. How could I put it better??? That trance was a marketing tool used by the uninititated to distinguish ethereal techno from "rave" and from harder Detroit/Berlin techno??? I mean - obviously the distinction becomes blurred because the point is that there was no consistency in the application of the label. I'm not trying to reinstitute the co-option of all melodic techno of that era under the guise of trance. Rather, I'm trying to point out that a CD buying audience was more likely to be introduced to techno at the time b/c that's what was compiled most often, and it was marketed as trance in a hodgepodge. Like the afforementioned 69 and Dark Comedy tracks, Balil, Sun Electric, Thomas Fehlmann, etc. All of it was (mis)labeled trance, at least in some corners, and we can only disregard that label with the benefit of hindsight. But maybe the point is that none of us outsiders knew what trance was in '93? I didn't intend to diminish the existant melodic techno of that era. If it wasn't for In Order to Dance Vol. V, I may not have ever discovered techno and that it is "in fact" a techno compilation, then often filed under "trance". The only pointer I had to techno through domestic channels was the NovaMute repress of "the techno sound of Berlin". The Pow-Wow Trance Waveform Transmissions didn't clear things up for me any... My first taste of "techno" in 1990 came from the Belgian "This is the New Beat" compilations, and I was later told through 313 that they were rip-offs. I'm trying to point out the co-option and how most people don't jump into techno at purity ground-zero. In the early-mid 90s, communication channels were not so established as they are today, and more people lived in isolation from the hotbeds of innovation. You consumed what you could find, and what you were fed was "trance" - even if wasn't in actuality. Of course, this is the 90's newcomer's dialogue, not the early initaites, who had found what they were looking for already and can easilly dismiss the rest. Tristan ---------- http://ampcast.com/phonopsia <- Music http://phonopsia.tripod.com <- Mixes, pics, thought, travelogue & info http://www.metatrackstudios.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- email <FrogboyMCI> <- AOL Instant Messenger --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
