What is the difference between techno, trance, house, and other kinds of music like that? They all really sound the same to me.

barker111

Techno, trance, and house are all just slightly different variations of club music, club music being the music they usually play in modern dance clubs. Jun 27 05, 2:57 PM

Arpeggionist

The difference is that club house owners wanted to give names to every little subtlety in the superficial music they play, for the purpose of making money. The actual difference in the music is minimal if there even is any. Jun 27 05, 4:17 PM

gmackematix

It all sounds the same. And so goes the echo of the fogey through the generations! I bet they said that about baroque music (and come to think of it they would have a point). ;) You can't honestly say that the hardcore techno you hear with beats pumped up to undanceable speeds sounds the same as "Fluffy White Clouds" by the Orb or that "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer sounds like "Born Slippy" by Underworld. Techno, trance and house are all 4/4 music with synthesised dance beats and descended from disco. "House" was named after a Chicago club called the Warehouse in the mid '80s. Unlike disco, they have more sampling of other records which got the early records such as M/A/R/R/S's "Pump Up The Volume" into a number of legal wrangles. Techno was a branch of House music developed by three African-Americans in Detroit and is more experimental with its use of studio effects for the harmonies. Techno artists include Orbital, 2Unlimited, Moby and Madonna with her "Ray of Light". Trance is a little like ambient in that it puts more emphasis on sonic textures than insistent beats but is more danceable. Like ambient music it tends to be used as chillout music in clubs. I will admit that there are now too many subgenres of the Cybertechno-Swissfunk variety, some listed in the site below. I will also admit that, as in any genre of music, there is much of it that is poorly constructed and unimaginative, e.g. a recent release takes Annie Lennox's emotional hit "Why?" and layers it onto a fast techno-beat. Why indeed? Anyway, here is a wikisite with links to others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_music Jun 27 05, 5:44 PM

billythebrit

Beats per minute helps distinguish these forms of dance music. Trance employs a 4/4 time signature, a tempo of 130 to 165 BPM, and 32 beat phrases, somewhat faster than house music but usually not as fast as Psychedelic. A kick drum is placed on every downbeat and a regular open hi-hat is often placed on the off-beat. Some simple extra percussive elements are usually added, and major transitions, builds or climaxes are often foreshadowed by lengthy 'snare rolls' - a quick succession of equally spaced snare drum hits that builds in volume towards the end of a measure or phrase. Synthesizers form the central elements of most trance tracks, with simple sawtooth-based sounds used both for short pizzicato elements and for long, sweeping string sounds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_music Techno - The main drum part is almost universally in common time (4/4); meaning 4 quarter note pulses per bar. In its simplest form, time is marked with kicks (bass drum beats) on each quarter note pulse, a snare or clap on the second and fourth pulse of the bar, with an open hi-hat sound every second eight note. The tempo tends to vary between approximately 120 bpm (quarter note equals 120 pulses per bar) and 150 bpm depending on the style of techno. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno House - The common element of house music is a prominent kick drum on every beat (also known as a four-to-the-floor beat), usually generated by a drum machine or sampler. The kick drum sound is augmented by various kick fills and extended dropouts. The drum track is filled out with hihat cymbal patterns on the eighth-note offbeats, and a snare drum or clap sound on beats two and four of every bar. This pattern is derived from so-called "four-on-the-floor" dance drumbeats of the 1960s and especially the 1970s disco drummers. House music is uptempo music for dancing and has a tempo range of between 118 and 135 bpm. Feb 22 08, 10:04 AM

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