Techno vs Rap vs Disco vs Country Music

Edited by jude111 - May 09 2013 at 11:17

jude111 wrote: Earendil wrote: I consider disco and (straight) techno to be inherently void of musical value. Well, you're wrong, . "Straight" techno comes from Detroit - in fact, the term was coined by Detroit techno artists, and it's pretty exciting stuff. It started out as black music. Here's Fact Mag's Top 10 Detroit Techno tracks as a primer, if you want to listen to them: http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/09/stacey-pullens-top-10-detroit-techno-classics/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_techno

Country, Modern Country, and Bluegrass requires more technique for guitar than what I've heard in Techno, Rap, or Disco. Modern Country deals with open tunings and slide playing on acoustic. Earlier Country music on electric guitar requires a precise and developed technique of alternate picking, lead chord work, and a "Travis' right hand finger picking technique found in "Ragtime". A "Ragtime" style displayed by Steve Howe on "The Clap" surfaced through guitarists like Chet Atkins and Roy Clark. Scotty Moore who played with Elvis had a percussive approach which influenced Bill Bruford to form independent ideas on drums. Country music in general is sometimes mixed with a guitar technique found in Jazz. I don't personally like Country music , but it's more challenging to play than the other styles mentioned in this thread.

jude1111 you should check out Lars Vaular he is mixing rap and trance in a cool way

Dayvenkirq wrote: Earendil wrote: I consider disco and (straight) techno to be inherently void of musical value. Well, timber me shivers, shiver me timbers, get yourself that Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

Edited by jude111 - May 07 2013 at 11:22

jude111 wrote: aginor wrote: i have a theory that folk music of europe plays part in the subconsious of people who makes music and you have 30 different countrys with different folk music which is filterd thorugh the music, and history and europe is a meltig pot, and what europe is quite good at i culture fusion, take something and make it our own, like pasta, fireworks, potatos and stuff I find that's particularly true in Eastern Europe, where people remain closely connected to their folk musics, even when their going to raves in the city. (Once I went hiking through the mountains in Bulgaria for a week with people largely from Sophia and other cities like Shumen and Varna, and man, out came the flamenco guitars and the folk dancing and the mountain songs and the rakia [strong alcohol made from a fruit].) But Western European music's so futuristic - musically, it's like stepping into a world that's 100 years ahead of America. Coming back to the US was like time travelling into the past, you expect to see wagon trails, and where people are still listening to Appalachian music like in the film Deliverance

i think there is a eastern sound, a western sound, a northern sound and a mediteranian sound, or feel,

easternh feel/sound has a strong rom/gypsy feel, or even hints of jewish maybem and also to folktones from their Slavic or Romantic origins, western is as you say more futuristic, but i also sence a stong classical feel to it, classy, elegant, victorian, industrial, (mainly Germany, France, Netherland, Austria, Great Brittan, and Belgium), Northern is more chilly , more natural sounds, simplistic, but rich, more archaic, but also lyrical, and mediteranian is more temperamentfull, fast and exotic, elements from both arabic, spanish, Turkian, and middeleastern,

and India has its Goa, which is a different beast.

jude111 wrote: aginor wrote: rave came from Essex right and Trance from Berlin and some schools came from Netherlands, and also acid house from Italy or something, Benny Benassy is said to have been one of the initiaters of using heavy moog lead house this is my favourite acid house tune to play on the dance flour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53mMbPQP8b8  dd you listen to this tune, pay attention to the moog, and how deep it goes. PS; i was a Trance/house DJ from 9th grade until high school, before i knew of prog i was a techno head (i am a child of the 90s, innetable to me to be consumed my the techno culture) Cool. Being American, I missed out on all that. It was only when I lived in Europe that I discovered how much music Americans miss out on, and how isolated that country is generally. There's a pretty big gap between Americans and Europeans of the same generation, as far as music goes. Even though techno and house were born in the US, it was ignored there, but highly influential in England and Germany. Strange how that works...

i have a theory that folk music of europe plays part in the subconsious of people who makes music and you have 30 different countrys with different folk music which is filterd thorugh the music, and history and europe is a meltig pot, and what europe is quite good at i culture fusion, take something and make it our own, like pasta, fireworks, potatos and stuff

i also have a theory that lots of childrens music ends up fitlerd through composed music, music from Sesamy Street might subconsiously end up in bands like DT or even Kayo Dot, for the simple reason that it is probably something they enjoyed ass kids.




Edited by aginor - May 07 2013 at 06:15

rave came from Essex right and Trance from Berlin and some schools came from Netherlands, and also acid house from Italy or something, Benny Benassy is said to have been one of the initiaters of using heavy moog lead house

this is my favourite acid house tune to play on the dance flour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53mMbPQP8b8

PS; i was a Trance/house DJ from 9th grade until high school, before i knew of prog i was a techno head (i am a child of the 90s, innetable to me to be consumed my the techno culture)

i like house more then techno!

i love Techno, Trance, House and Rave more then Hip hop were only true hardcore and Outkast and Old school is the real deal for me

Disco is okey but nothing i really listens to and I like Country filterd through rock so nah, i like Blue Grass and i have been to country bars and had a good time so its okey if the mood is okey.