Damn jinx, it never occurred to me that that's how house works (every other beat being accentuated)! I'd always classed house as being the same as techno, on the basis that: 1) it is speedy, synthesised music, and 2) the beats still follow one another at a steady pace. I felt the main difference was that it is clearly for girls (or, as far as men are concerned, their courtship). I like it, and appreciate there is more to it than this, but don't take it seriously.
Trance, contrary to early reports, is not
just bizarre ambient tonal stuff, as the genre also covers flavours of techno. To me trance is really best categorised by the Goa variety, which is difficult to describe: fast, seductive techno, that is the aural equivalent of the fractal art found hung on student bedroom walls the world over. This to mean that it is trippy and meaningful when on drugs, and immature and headache-inducing at any other time. I like it
Drum and bass is indeed where it's at, being-able-to-dance-properly-wise, but I think all the drum and bass has been made now? I don't know, I'm not 'on the scene' as much as I should be, but I listen to more and more of the oldskool variety ...
So this is the dance music world as a self-educated amateur raver sees it ... To explain everything better,
Ishkur is your friend
Edit: Ishkur is my friend too, as I now know what you guys mean by microhouse. This is sort of Domu, Maurice Fulton or Matthew Herbert territory. Oh shit, also check out Ishkurs definition of Death Trance!
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