Last night I went with a friend to a rave -- the lights were overkill for me but the music was interesting. I can how, with the sequencing and repetitiveness, one could really zone. While there, I was thinking of the "austistic space and meditation" question that someone asked on another thread. Does techno drive you bats or put you into an "autistic" space? Just curious.
For short, I enjoy music where they don't sing.
I like techno music, but the radio stations in my area don't play it very often.
Don't MIND if I'm in the mood. My neighbours play techno sometimes. With a subwoofer. I hate subwoofers.
Don't know. Does guys like Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Aphex Twin etc, count as techno?
It would depend on what you wouid class as techno music i am more a rock or metal type of guy i don't like that repetitive type stuff they play in clubs.
I like techno music if it is also melodic but then that applies to just about any kind of music I would consider.
energeia:
If you like techno music, and modulating repetitiveness, you will absolutely love the album "decks, efx, and 909" by Richie Hawtin.
The whole thing was mapped out on the computer and put together like a tapestry.
There is no comparison.
I also listen to 'hard house' music which is similar, and popular where I am in the UK. I suppose that the music was designed around the use of esctasy, but I listen to it happily when I am not on drugs.
If music has too many vocals it begin to create a narrative in my mind which is either unnecessary or unpleasant/distracting.
Infected Mushroom has some interesting music which falls into the techno/trance category.
Do you listen to garage as well?
When did you start listen to house?
Do you have house from the late 90ees?
I suppose I listened to a lot of different dance music in the 90s.
I think that rave music really took off in the early 90s. This stuff from youtube is really of its time:
http://www.youtube.com/user/wwwravehistorycouk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVQnLmKFe...ed&search=
The first music record I bought was Cubic 22 - Night in Motion which was from 1991. I must have been (eeek!) 12 years old then. Not old enough to go raving.
These days the kiddies listen to music which is too fast for me, unless I am appropriately buckled. lol
There is a lot of good music going around, but it is much more market driven than it was years ago. The free party scene has all but disappeared.
I think that there was a certain renaissance in dance music in the early 90s but the late 90s were a bit dry. 1997 was not a good year in Britain.
I'm really fond of Daft Punk and Boards of Canada.
Don't know. Does guys like Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Aphex Twin etc, count as techno?
Nope - one of the defining things about techno is that it has a beat based on the human heart rate. Those would be more electronica.
I'm a big electronica fan, but not so much techno...
What's the purpose behind such a mechanism, in techno?
Yes, 80's music rocks, especially 80's synth.
Yes, really good bands. I also like music by The Cure, Duran Duran, Madness, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, Moon Martin, Ian Lowe, Dave Edmunds just to name a few, but I fully realise most of their music was no techno.