[Sovkiller]

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Originally posted by waylman Techno is cool http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html ____________________________________ LOL......classic!

LOL this is simply great, man!!!!! I was laughing for 1/2 hour!!!!!!

 

[pwrusr]

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Originally posted by geom_tol Nice! Thanks for posting that link.

sure thing

 

[robert]

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Originally posted by waylman What is wrong with these people?

it's called The Decline of Western Civilization. my wife has the unenviable task of teaching 7th graders to read (they can't). 7th grade. i guess they spend all their time listening to techno and playing xbox. and their parents will vote for Ahnuld

 

[fractus2]

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Originally posted by robert it's called The Decline of Western Civilization. my wife has the unenviable task of teaching 7th graders to read (they can't). 7th grade. i guess they spend all their time listening to techno and playing xbox. and their parents will vote for Ahnuld

That's just sad. I think the weak link are the parents.

 

[razerx]

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Originally posted by robert i guess they spend all their time listening to techno and playing xbox.

Replace "xbox" with the latest fad the word "techno" with "metal", "rap", "house", "Grateful Dead" or whatever your poison the stereotype would still hold true.

 

[robert]

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Originally posted by razerx Replace "xbox" with the latest fad the word "techno" with "metal", "rap", "house", "Grateful Dead" or whatever your poison the stereotype would still hold true.

not quite. if you examine the Beatles canon, you'll see that their music (whether they wrote it themselves, or George Martin did; they performed and recorded it) got more complex as they continued.

or, as my pappy used to say:

simple-minded stuff for simple-minded people.

 

[razerx]

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Originally posted by robert not quite. if you examine the Beatles canon, you'll see that their music (whether they wrote it themselves, or George Martin did; they performed and recorded it) got more complex as they continued. or, as my pappy used to say: simple-minded stuff for simple-minded people.

What I meant was that people of a generation gap will always blame pop culture for social ills.

I am not so sure if the merits of anything especially art and music can be defined purely by some level of complexity. If this is so then anything other than classical is less than worthy, a statement which I wholeheartedly disagree.

 

[MD1032]

I was going to create a thread for this, but it seems there is already a related thread.

OK, my main genres are Classic Rock and Classical music. I'm pretty open-minded when it comes to music, so I have a little bit of everything, but Classic Rock and Classical are the bulk of it (Led Zeppelin rules!). I've never been into techno. In fact, I've heard a lot of techno and basically hated it all. It's so darn boring! My friend ******* came over my house, and seeing that I had a Promedia 4.1 system, which translates to him, the average teen boy as a bass-throwing monster, of course. Well, due to my small room, I do have an excellent advantage in terms of bass. Anyway, he had me download a few of HIS favorite techno songs (asians are very into techno in my area it seems). BTW, his favorite genres are techno and Classical. This one song in particular, "Unchained Melody (Webster Hall)" I found to be quite interesting and I actually enjoyed it! It has not pursuaded me to seek out techno, but it's still a decent song. It starts out with a classical feel and then adds a techno feel to it. Very interesting.

I enjoyed the look on his face when I put in on because he has a set of those cheap polk audio stereo el cheapo speakers and he had probably never heard bass before. It's kind of a shame, actually, how most of my peers are so corrupted that they go for the plastic crapola boom-box or the light-up headphones over decent audio stuff.

Well, there's my .02, and BTW, I still hold to my opinion that MOST TECHNO STINKS

edit: WOW! The original Classical version of the Unchained Melody is quite beautiful!

 

[Sol_Zhen]

There’s some OK house, jungle, and trip-hop. But nothing I’d listen to for the sake of listening. If I want to listen to music, I’ll listen to music and not “the new disco.” Face it. That’s what most techno is (at least the dance stuff). It’s the new disco.

Some of it’s fine as background if I’m at a club, and for that I prefer the lounge stuff. But as music? Rap has more merit.

 

[djgustashaw]

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[marmot]

Great link.

For those of you that have not seen homestarrunner.com I suggest you explore the site. It conatins a bunch of very funny stuff.

 

[averydonovan]

waylman, I'd suggest trying out different sub-genres of electronica, since techno is only one of the many. For example, there is a lot of good electro-industrial (EBM, if you prefer that term) out there like Covenant and VNV Nation. Or on the more pop-like side, there's T.O.Y. Techno tends to be very repetitive and doesn't venture much out of set rythms and to me the majority of techno kind of stinks, but explore the other parts of electronica and you can find there is a lot of good stuff out there.

 

[ipumuk]

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http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html

roflmao !!!! omg. funniest clip in weeks !!

concerning techno:

the thing about minimalistic music is its ability to get you into "trance"/ "extasy".
i am talking about the state of conciousness. of course it is no accident that the music genre and the drug share the name of a state of mind.

i have seen quite a few documentaries about native african/indian music (mostly wooden drums + monotone vocals). their music has the same patterns as most techno tracks.
the aim is to make your body and brain adapt to a monotonious beat and to bring you into hypnosis.

if you have not made this experience techno is just a strange sequence of unisonous beats.

 

[elmoe]

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Originally Posted by ipumuk roflmao !!!! omg. funniest clip in weeks !! concerning techno: the thing about minimalistic music is its ability to get you into "trance"/ "extasy". i am talking about the state of conciousness. of course it is no accident that the music genre and the drug share the name of a state of mind. i have seen quite a few documentaries about native african/indian music (mostly wooden drums + monotone vocals). their music has the same patterns as most techno tracks. the aim is to make your body and brain adapt to a monotonious beat and to bring you into hypnosis. if you have not made this experience techno is just a strange sequence of unisonous beats.

This is quite true. However, the same is true for every kind of music IMHO. Hendrix makes me go into a deeper trance/ecstasy than techno. Same goes for Mingus for example, or yet again Pink Floyd.

 

[blip]

Holy old post, Batman!