Word indeed to Wenna and Techfunk. As well as what you two guys said, does anyone think it might also be an age thing ? Not to generalise too much about the ages of individuals, but I'd reckon it's a safe bet if we took the average ages of the trance forum and the techno forums, we'd find a higher age group on the techno forum.

My personal feeling is that when I was younger, I was caned all the time listening to 180bpm+ gabba, but now I look for something a bit more musical and melodical. I'm not so keen on too much of any one thing anymore, so I can't do all hard or all uplifting. That's why techno fits the bill for me cos it can be so many things, whereas from my position here on the outside looking in, trance seems to be more genre driven. A lot of you trance guys seem very, very passionate about a particular style or flavour i.e uplifting or hardstyle (sorry I know you don't like the word ). Hence less room for disagreement.
Just some thougts, probably wrong, so kick away if you want