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This issue seems to stem from the misuses of the term 'techno'. My understanding is that Detroit was house music. I feel like they're using the term 'techno' as
by vegancap 3y ago
This issue seems to stem from the misuses of the term 'techno'. My understanding is that Detroit was house music. I feel like they're using the term 'techno' as an all encompassing term for electronic music. Detroit House and German Techno sound nothing alike and have different influences (and some shared influences if you go back far enough). They both stemmed from Disco in the likes of Summer's etc, but diverged in very different directions, House retaining more of the Disco musical elements, Techno retaining more of the synthesised and electronica sounds.
I could be totally wrong here, but Techno is more than just loops 4x4 beats, and so is House, so it's kind of apples and oranges. I'd associated Techno with Germany and House with America, I'm not sure there's a valid dispute here?
- whitemary 3y agoI pretty much agree with you, but I do think the ostensible conflict has been important for culture-keeping purposes in various scenes. The particular character of music genres shifts over time because the primary function of genres is not consistency but rather a superficial purity that temporarily preserves the scenes in which culture is incubated.
- vegancap 3y agoThat's a good point, I realised as I was writing my original comment that I'm probably using very recent definitions of those terms. Historically, 'techno' probably was a more all encompassing term, so it's easy for me to discount all of the historical disagreements based on the current definitions. So, I'm sort of over-simplifying it just by using todays definitions
- whstl 3y ago"My understanding is that Detroit was house music" There definitely was a lot of overlap: https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/08/chicago-house-detroit-techno-feature https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/08/chicago-house-...