What is trance, techno and house?

Rakio · **Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:17 pm

Hello!

I have been listening to electronic music for a while now. But I still cant classify them properly. Coulde anyone describe theses genres for me?

I want to know what kind of music I listen to.
At first I believed that Techno was the main genre for all electronic music but that was completly wrong. Now I can tell whats techno and trance but Im not 100% yet. And im completly lost in what house is. Explaing some major sub-genres would also be good, I think.
It would be nice if u also gave some good example for each genre too.

Thanks

davehart · **Posted:** Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:28 pm

Well, to save a big explantion, here's an example of a tune from each style:

TRANCE: Paul van Dyk - Nothing But You

TECHNO: Mauro Picotto - Amazing

HOUSE: Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body

There's 3 very well known tunes to check out. You could break each down to the tempo, House, very steady groove. Trance, speedy uplifting breakdown styles and techno, fast repetitive bass. A little vague.

The easiest way to get to tell the difference is to listen to a few tunes from each style, build up an image of what tune fits into what.

To be fair tho, dont get worrying about all the different genres, as organised folk we like to put things in little boxes to keep them neat and tidy. Much better to be able to pick out a good tune from a bad one than to tell what style it is.

technics · **Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 6:45 am

well this is what i think of when listening to them

trance; in utopia
house; in a lounge
techno; at some commercialized club (of course all of these genre's can be here, but for the most part you can kinda tell b/c techno can get really annoying after listening to it a few times - my opinion of course =P )

=)

Cooler · **Posted:** Sun Oct 19, 2003 10:15 am

Techno

: The music: noisy melody, often no vocals, often hard beats and a pumping bassline. Like in all electronic music-genres it's different from sub-genre to sub-genre. Perhaps not the best deffinition, but at least it is one!
Names: Mauro Picotto (he has done some more uplifting trance stuff too, but not in the past), Carl Cox, Andreas Kreamer and Cris Liebling
Trance Very Happy

: The music: floating melody, soft bassline and nice fitting beats. This is also different from sub-genre to sub-genre.
Names: Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Paul van Dyk and the old Tiesto
House Rolling Eyes

: The music: I don't know how to deffine housemusic, it's just slower than trance, the use of different elements is less and the bassline is less hard.
Names: Roger Sanchez, Dirty Vegas, Lenny Fontana, Kings Of Tomorrow and Deep Dish.

Better deffinition anyone Laughing

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Viceroy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 1:39 am

Techno - Often very little "real" melody - mostly has a lot of bass, beats and percussion that are used to make the sound of the tune.

Trance - Often has a very strong melody that is repeated throughout the song. The whole song sounds similar. Often has a strong bassline with extra synths, sounds and effects complimenting the strong, lead sound.

raynbo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:15 am

I may be all off and freakish in the head but I never got a clear sense either. I just always considered stuff like Prodigy (older?) as techno cause of the spartse beats and kinda grindy industrial synth bits. Trance is happier, even hard trance, which can get really rough at times, with much melody. I'm not sure what house is either, anything I don't like that I know for sure isn't any of the above I call house. lol
But then I like drum 'N bass and hardcore and so on.
But really, I wanna know what Prodigy is! haha I like them.

Dj Traxxlover · **Posted:** Mon Oct 20, 2003 12:14 pm

reQuiem4adream · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:45 am

i just dont know much how to classify the music, but i have some examples that may help (or not). lol

techno - moby
trance - sasha
house - dirty vegas
tribal house - victor calderone
eh? what about peter rauhofer?

Radiosity · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:12 am

I wouldn't classify Moby as Techno Confused

kuRtis248 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:13 pm

Cooler · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:31 pm

Viceroy · **Posted:** Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:31 pm

davehart · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:04 am

raynbo · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:28 am

Well, I have an older Prodigy CD and like it much, though don't know the name.
Can't we just call it music!? lol I'm getting a headache just thinking about all the styles of trance! haha Guess if I'm to do anything with it I must learn as well. Wish me luck.
Although, learning this is much more fun than studying algebra!! Eeek.

Rakio · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 7:19 pm

Thansk for all the replies, Very appreciated.

I think I got more ground on my feet now. This is how I would classify the artists I listen to:
Trance: Sunbeam, DJ Tiesto(not all his songs seems to be trance) and Armin van Buuren.

Techno: DJ Promo. Hes like hardcore techno or? Anyway looking for more stuff like his. The Mauro Picotto tunes I have heard some more like trance to me maybe he does both?

House: Well, I have heard Sanchezs Another Chance on the radio but Im not completly sure on what house is yet.

And then we got Astral Projection that people says is psytrance but I really kan differ tracne from psytrance.

Viceroy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 22, 2003 11:50 pm

kuRtis248 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2003 7:13 am

Stream · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:32 am

GrimReaper · **Posted:** Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:17 pm