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Originally Posted by Red Mile Style
There is this great Canadian dance group, although they might be hinging on the verge of techno, called Deep Dish.
Shout Out Out Out Out Out Out is the best damn dance band I've ever seen. You can't help but dance when you hear their stuff. However, they are incredibly hard to locate/download on the internet. But, if you can find it, it is totally worth it!
"Dance" is a hard genre of music to classify (but I guess so is every other genre). A lot of people classify dance as techno, which has about a billion other sub-genres (drum and bass, jungle, electonic, hard dance...), none of which I call tell the difference. People try to explain it to me, and some of them are kind of easy to tell, but most of the time, I just classify it all as techno.
Does anyone have any advice on how to tell the techno genres apart?
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I'm assuming by deep dish you mean these guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Dish
(they're actually american, byt George is On is a pretty good cd)
Shout out out out out is actually playing a CD release party at the HIFI next Aug 8th and 9th.
I actually just saw them at a big party up near edmonton a couple of weeks ago.
As for the genre's of electronica, Techno is merely one of them, the main ones being: House, Trance, Techno, Jungle, Breakbeat, hardcore and downtempo
(although some people say every type of electronica is just a different version of house)
Main distinction:
House is 4/4 beat, around 130 bpm usually. House is like soul/funk
Trance is also a 4/4 beat, but often around 150 bpm. it's more repetitive than house, but is usually known for longer break downs, etc.
Techno is like music made by robots, very mechanical, varies in BPM
Jungle is angry (I think)it's got a certain beat to it (I can't describe it here, you'll have to listen to the site below)
Breakbeat is kinda like house, but with a broken beat, its not 4/4. most hiphop beats are breakbeats.
Hardcore is that super fast (like techno at 180bpm) it's either angry as hell, or filled with sugar.
downtempo is well, downtempo... slower beats, ethereal, world music, etc. fit in here.
A great page that explains all the various genre's and sub-genres is tis one:
http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html