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Date: 30-May-01 @ 06:46 AM -
RE: Terms & Definitions
go to a record store...where they sell 12" vinyl. they have most of it catagorized, and you listen and get the picture. Don't bank on it though because each dj or store owner has there own idea about style, and most progressive stuff is so eclectic it comnbines many stlyes. breaks alone can be split up into old school electro, miami breaks and bass like Dj icee, acid phunk, Nu Skooll which uses house, trance , drumm n bass bass lines, and everything from orchestral to rock and jazz. So if you know music, you can identify the elements of a song you can speak the dialect, but to define a song is dificult because they are very complex and diverse at times. But style genre often are defined by the over all feel. things with funky beats are usualy refered to as breaks, and things with disco influences are most likely house, and straight beats with lots of drum rolls, arpegios, and melodies that morph instread of change drasticly are usualy lobbed into the trance area.But trance has sub categories, like psytrance, hard trance and goa. All are very diferant. Jungle and drum and bass have many types as does house. From speed garage, hard house, and deep house. Spend enough time in the clubs and you can write your own definitions. I was 15 when i started listening to dance music. Back then we called it nu wave, then it was all techno, then Belgian New Beat, Hard Floor, House, Acid House etc. It all really came from there and evolved. I remember when all slow techno with hip hop influenced beats was called trip=hop, then left feild, and other styles evolved with artist like portis head, and big neat artists like Left Feild and Chemical Brothers. When i have some time I'll drop back in and try and make a list with some elements that desribe each, but that is a pretty long list and only my perspective albeit a damn experienced one. Hope this helped.