Quote Originally Posted by Dopa
I've seen soooo many situations where people call DJ Tiesto, Armin Van Burin, Paul Oakenfold, and similar artists techno and you are almost entirely wrong. There is the biggest fucking difference in the world between TRANCE and TECHNO. Yes they are both subcatagories of electronica but THEY ARE IN NO WAY SIMILAR. Techno is crappy ofton random noise making with a gay sounding bouncy bassline and virtually no melody except for random noise. The synths are ofton very jagged saw waves and usually has no or little filter cutoff.

Trance on the other hand is much more cleaner sounding and actually more melodic with more rounded sounding synths and a bassline closely in sync with the beat. The "arps" are usually filtered with a low pass filter so all the annoying high frequency's are filtered out that get that "screaming" synth that you ofton hear in techno music. So all you get is a smooth arp for teh harmony or melody.

Also another big difference is techno is usually in the upper 150-180 bpm (beats per minute) which is just fucking annoying. Trance is usually anywere between 120-140 bpm i think.

People many times have confused Trance with techno and sometimes they are dumb enough to say there is no difference. I have had even relatives before ask me "what type of music do you listen to again? Techno?" and they are so fucking stupid because i've told them time after time again that my music is trance and there is a big fucking difference between the two.

So those of you on here that cant tell the difference just remember techno is like fuckng random noise and trance is more melodic and no where as primitive. Surely trance music fans on this board can relate to what i'm talkin about this just bugs the hell out of me.
you said " Fucking" 5 times in that whole thread, and what did it do for it... made you look dumb :thumbsup: