> sorry, that's ridiculous tunnel-vision and an over-emphasis on genre > names without looking deeper. of course techno has evolved. it evolved > into jungle, it evolved into dubstep, it evolved into loads of things. > anytime anything "evolves" it's given a new genre name. it is a total > contradiction to expect "detroit techno" to become something radically > different and still be called "detroit techno". if this was the case, > we wouldn't even call it "detroit techno" in the first place, we'd > call it "chicago house", except maybe we wouldn't call it "chicago > house", we'd call it "disco", etc etc.
Really, you talk to someone old enough and they do call it all disco. Genres serve to break down and isolate - what can be played with what, what can't be played with what. It's a marketing tool. funny that at one time a style of dance music derived its name from the style of dance you did to it is it not about the dancer anymore? first time I heard the word 2-step I immediately thought it referred to a way that someone was moving on the floor turns out they still danced the same to 2-step as they did to house (as they did to disco) oh well... MEK
