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Guest Kristian

Is Acid and Gabber subgenres to Techno but not House and Ambient?

 

And Trance is definately not a subgenre to Techno?

 

And if so, what subgenres does Techno, Acid, Gabber, House, Ambient and Trance have?

 

Someone who know or can give me an URL where it's all explained?

 

Thanks!

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Guest --==1400MiLeS==--

Acid and house were emerging before techno me thinks.

 

Electronic

-Trance -------Techno-----House-----Chillout

Gabber Ambient

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Guest Space Ninja

I think first was techno from Detroit, somewhere in mid 80's. In the same time in Chicago House music was invented. Acid House concieved somewhere in the end of 80's in UK. Trance started by acts like Hardfloor and Sven Vath in the beginning of 90's. First Goa Records started to be released in 93/94. AFAIC Goa=Psychedelic, so we might start to celebrate the first 10 year anniversary of Psy Trance.

Gabber? Don't know and don't wanna know

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Guest Kristian

Hm...

 

I've devided Techno and Trance into two separate maingenres, is it correct or should trance go under Techno?:

 

TRANCE:

subgenres:

Clubtrance

Goatrance

Psychedelic trance

..are there more?

 

TECHNO:

subgenres:

..are there more?

Acid and Gabber?

 

ACID:

subgenres?

 

AMBIENT:

subgenres?

 

HOUSE:

subgenres:

Acid house?

Progressive house

 

Jungle? Drum'n'bass? Electro are they subgenres, and if so where?

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Guest Hallucinogenious

well Kode IV had released an album at '92 and there were goa trance releases before '93 ...

 

House began at Loft,Warehouse,etc (there the name was given). In the same time at Detroit they began to experiment with sci-fi sounds and techno was born ...

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Guest spacemonkey

gabber would definatly fitt techno, if you would listen to records that are defined as oldstyle in that genre your listening to techno.

 

gabber subgenre's where 5 years back something like:

oldstyle hardcore terror newstyle, and then hardstyle came which has become a genre in itself now.

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Guest Bahamut

Ambient has little to do with this thread, it's from the late 70ies

 

but I guess some modern ambient has been influenced by these 'dance' styles

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I generally feel that trance is a branch in the evolution of techno, which means it's a subgenre of techno. But with that logic, I suppose techno, and therefore trance, are both branches in the evolution of Detroit/Chicago house.

 

Ambient, as Bahamut correctly states, gained popularity in the 70s, but has evolved into all sorts of crazy subgenres like IDM, space and probably most if not all of the new age genre. Some more danceable ambient (IDM, electro, etc.) has gotten so far away from the original ambient that, I think, we needed the term "electronica" to describe it.

 

It seems that although house and ambient have evolved separately, they have, within the past couple of decades, begun to blend with each other. Psy-ambient is a great example of this. :)

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Guest Kiph T. Elephant

"what IDM accually stands for?"

 

Intelligent Dance Music. Hehe! :-D That's probably the stupidest possible name for a music style. (I wonder when someone will come up with "Unintelligent Dance Music" :-)

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Guest Kristian

Man! I think I have a lot of work infront of me to be done then!

 

IF one is gonna look back as long as the 70's.. Then I suppose everything electronic in music has its origin from Techno. Then all other modern genres are just subgenres to Techno...

 

Sweet jes..

 

No, I think I'm going to keep theese as maingenres:

 

*Trance

 

*Techno

 

*House

 

separately...

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Guest spacemonkey

good idea because the subgenres will only be used by people listening to that style and as you probably have seen on this forum many times, even they can't agree.

 

this will apply to all genres and subgenres and therefore it's a mission impossible.

 

if you stick to the basics and will explain a bit that's probably your safest choice.

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Correction: It's probably safer to say that electro evolved from house rather than from ambient.

 

Also, if you want to take the genres back a little farther, house evolved from disco and funk, and the art of deejaying has its roots in reggae. Interesting. :)

 

Kristian - Here's a good overview:

 

http://www.btinternet.com/~Huggesey/HISTOR...TRONICMUSIC.htm

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Guest D-Dave

I was making "unintelligent jungle" back in 1995. Thats breakbeats with a distorted 303 on top of it. Pretty interesting and still unheard of. Definitely not jazzy and sofisticated pretentious intelligent jungle.

Unintelligent techno can also be pretty interesting. Slam bam donk klonk slam bam donk klonk slam bam donk klonk slam bank donk klonk. There you go, 16 bars of unintelligent techno...

I guess BotfB can be categorised under unintelligent trance. :)

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Guest spacemonkey

hehe unintelligent jungle and techno seem quiete funny to me.

 

i wouldn't go as far as saying your BotfB is unintelligent although by saying that you at least have proven yourself unpretentious (sp?) which is always a good thing! ;-)

 

 

(damn intelligent dance music how pretentious is THAT, "now lets sit down and make music to which we can dance but since we are not like all those stupid raver kids WE make intelligent dance music AHUM, mortimer a high IQ bass please, and Charles please make a very scientificly correct hihat line ok?")

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Guest Mrrshan

I think electro was born in the beginning of 80's, a couple of years before house, which was 'invented' before techno.

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Guest wee!rdo

He he... LONG LIVE THE UDM + EVERYTHING soul-LESS!!!

 

That's what EDM is all about.

 

;P

 

Everyone uses the genre names a little differently, and the meanings of terms tend to change a lot by time. Perhaps one had better concentrate on the music, and use the terms only when the conversation demands this. Maybe invent new ones if the "official" ones don't seem to be the ones for you;) Remember, names are names and music is another thing.

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