Favorite techno style?

[hanyou21]

Darude's Sandstorm is one of my favorite dance/techno tracks ever - forget about subgenres, I'm not big into classifying my music too much. Hell, I'm even making an AMV to it .

Insomnia by Faithless is also pretty kickass, and so is Miles' Children...

[DrngdKreationz]

although this is somewhat of a Necropost I'll at least make a worthwhile comment.

Bum you asked a while ago about why you split it up into so many tiny pieces.. and it does suck for the consumer.. but for DJ's you need that seperation I can't walk into the record store and just ask for "trance" they'll start giving me everything from ukhardcore/underground to mainstream. Most DJ's usually understand how to break it up to what they need by the smaller subgenres like in Trance I would ask for Vocal/uplifting or darker styles of it like GOA or Tribal.

as for what I listen to (or what i use to spin with) Is Electro/ghetto tech/ breaks (rarely uptempo breaks) / and very rarely drum and bass. /vocal trance/uplifting trance.

[Otohiko]

I've been digging my brother's constant playing of Shpongle recently. I think they fall, somewhat misleadingly, under Goa/Trance.

[TheKorovaMilkbar]

I like Robert Miles. Most of his techno songs flow very well. You might know him for the song Children, it was his most famous hit. My favorite song from him is Landscape.

[TheKorovaMilkbar]

for me its house, i consider it a more darker style than trance or techno plus its has a lots percussion which i like.

Do you have any good song suggestions for house music?

[Scintilla]

That tutorial on Ishkur's guide that someone linked to above is hilarious and informative at the same time

(I'm currently making my way through the monster chart of house...)

[CerebralAssamite]

I dont know what the genre is called exactly (since im a raving metal head) but the soundtracks to the Initial D series cought my attention.
I enjoy it because its more than just *nts nts nts nts nts nts nts nts nts nts*
(takes some drugs) *nts nts nts nts nts nts nts nts*
Each song is different, no one song sounds alike (same with metal)
Plus I have a thing for asian women so hawt

[Lyrs]

It depends on what time of the day/night. I can always find time for vocal trance.

http://www.shoutcast.com/waradio.phtml?genre=Dance

[TaranT]

Electronica does not exist. Not as a genre or a description. It was coined by the North American music press to refer to the second wave of electronic music's explosion in the late 90s and exists purely as a marketing buzzword, not any actual quantifiable branch of music. (The first wave of electronic music, incidentally, they called "techno", and having driven the word into the ground beyond all sense of meaning, they couldn't keep using it if they wished to re-market the music.)

Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy's 'Fat of the Land', Chemical Brothers and other big-time stars of that period were all called "electronica" at one point or another. But the person who really popularized it in the public consciousness was Madonna and her shallow, William Orbit-produced piss-poor attempt at appropriating trance music as something she invented (Ray of Light). She used that word all the damn time in interviews. God, I hate her.

So yeah: there is no such thing as electronica. I want each and every one of you to stop calling it that because it makes you sound like a ***** retard. If you want to talk about the music as a whole, simply call it what it is: "electronic music" (or EDM - Electronic Dance Music - for the club/rave stuff).

This is a PSA from the Official Electronic Music Genre Standards and Classifications Consortium.

[atrophiedXlungs]

My favorite subgenre of electronic music is noise, specifically harsh noise. But atmospheric / minimalist stuff can be interesting, at times.