What is techno, exactly?

[The_Laughing_Man]

Techno is the future. Always was, always will be.

I reckon anyway.

It`s refreshing to see that being said.
It would be nice if the music being made today reflected this.
Sadly there is too much emulation and not enough innovation.

I think the majority of stuff people would buy as Techno these days, is what techno was and has been for quite some time.
The new music that still does embrace the future, holding the techno ethic, is called something else now, as in terms of genre boxes, there are defined and accepted parameters for what techno is, if that makes sense.
So the music that has kept up and embraced new ideas is something else, even though personally I consider it techno.

Did that make sense?

[Technologic]

It`s refreshing to see that being said.
It would be nice if the music being made today reflected this.
Sadly there is too much emulation and not enough innovation.

I think the majority of stuff people would buy as Techno these days, is what techno was and has been for quite some time.
The new music that still does embrace the future, holding the techno ethic, is called something else now, as in terms of genre boxes, there are defined and accepted parameters for what techno is, if that makes sense.
So the music that has kept up and embraced new ideas is something else, even though personally I consider it techno.

Did that make sense?

Yeah I guess so. You could say that anything is techno providing that in it’s most primary stage it has that futurist element, it doesn’t matter what time signature it has or what, it just has to have a futuristic or science fiction theme…

On my second thoughts, i think the foundations of techno has a futurist element for sure, but techno has evolved, it’s taken influences from elsewhere… i mean, tribal techno is putting a modern twist on music that's been played for centuries and there’s a million and one other influences that producers adhere to, so I don’t think this is a rule exclusive to techno, but music in general.

Boy, this is deep...