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Posted: Mar. 12 2008, 15:59 |
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| Quote (Sir Mustapha @ Mar. 12 2008, 21:44) | Trance is faster than that, isn't it? I'm a bit illiterate in this, but if we were to be subgenre-specific, it would qualify as what, House music? Unless there's a subsubgenre called "snail-pace trance", or something like that.
| Quote | | I know there`s a number of people on this forum who are not especially fond of Mike`s more thump,thump,dancey stuff, for want of a more sarcastic description.But how anybody can fail to be moved by the last two tracks on this album is beyond me. |
Well, I fail at that, and I can explain why using as an analogy a Woody Woodpecker cartoon, in which a king has a songbird. He asks the bird to sing a little tune, and then asks "higher!", and "higher!", "higher!", until the bird sings so high that he passes out. That is exactly 'Far Above the Clouds'. It's not just "far above the clouds": it's far above the stratosphere, far above the ionosphere, above the asteroid belt, above the Milky Way, up and up until it knocks on the door of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe for a cup of tea. If I didn't have any shame, I'd consider it the funniest musical piece ever. |
No, House music is the direct descendant of the Disco music of the late 70s. "Pump Up the Jam" is House, "Vogue" by Madonna is (Pop-)House, "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" by Kylie Minogue is basically modern House. It's got that typical Disco feel which I refer to as the "bathroom" sound.
Techno, on the other hand, is largely derived from Kraftwerk; Trance has the Kraftwerk influence as well, but mixes it with influences from other, "softer" electronic pioneers like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and probably even Jarre. Well, those are the roots of the respective genres, anyway. I'm oversimplifying things here, and of course there's always some overlap between the different genres of electronic dance music.
As for TBIII, it's well known that it was influenced by Mike's Ibiza experience and the typical style of Trance that comes from there, which I have to say I am not particularly familiar with; one thing I do know is that, interestingly, it frequently features acoustic guitars.
Edit: If you'd like to find out more about the different subgenres and sub-subgenres of electronic (dance) music, I recommend Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. It's a bit outdated as well as heavily biased on some subjects, but it makes for an interesting read (and listen).
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Are you trying to say that it`s just a wee tad over the top there Sir M. 
