| -----Original Message----- | From: Dan Sicko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 20 October 2001 04:11 | | >>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?
In the UK and Europe at least, the "2 Unlimited Effect" (with their "techno techno techno techno!" chorus) had an inestimably damaging impact on the definition of "techno". In fact, the word was a laughing stock among anyone but the initiates. Everyone had to go to great lengths here to distance themselves from 2 Unlimited, and would refer themselves to fans of "intelligent techno", "idm", "ambient techno", "ambient trance" but never "techno" itself. I think that nowadays there is a high awareness among lay people of what techno is and how it differs from trance, house and the like. But even in the mid-1990s, you couldn't define your favourite music as "techno" at all without people laughing and singing you the 2 Unlimited chorus again - "techno techno techno techno!" Brendan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
