Thursday, January 11, 2007

Definitions of Electronica (TECH HOUSE)

Why do i like electronica music? Maybe it's because it's not too commercial, not too popular, no crappy marketing strategy of trying to package the singers to popular demands, no crappy lovey dorvey lyrics, no lyrics on angst against society, no lyrics on how the singer was abused as a child or whatever the crap. And ya, u dun need a wonderful studio to make your own electronica music. Just some musical talents and a computer with suitable softwares, maybe a keyboard and a sampling machine will do. U dun even need vocals! It's like music made by ppl for the ppl!

OK, today Definitions of Electronica is on tech house. Well it's a sub-genre between the sound of house and the sound of techno. Not quite easy to distinguish, but i like it nevertheless..

What is Tech-House?THE SOUND: Although it uses the same basic structure as house, elements of the house 'sound' such as realistic jazz sounds (in deephouse) and booming kick drums are replaced with elements from techno such as shorter, deeper, darker and often distorted kicks, smaller, quicker hi-hats, noisier snares and more synthetic or acid sounding synth melodies from the TB-303, including raw electronic noises from distorted sawtooth and square wave oscillators.
The well known tech-house producer, Jean F. Cochois, also known as The Timewriter, has often used jazzy, soulful vocals and elements, and equally as much raw electronic sounds in his music. However, a rich techno-like kick and bassline seems to be a consistency amongst tech-house music.
THE HISTORY:The term Tech-House has proved controversial over the years as some say that the use of the expression has mutated to represent a very particular and narrow style of music (see above), rather than the broad-minded attitude and approach to DJing and production that the Tech-House scene once was during the mid-nineties. For this reason, certain artists such as Asad Rizvi no longer attach the term with their work, as they feel that popular perception of Tech-House is a vastly inaccurate representation of their work.

http://www.mosdownload.com/genre.php?action=read&g=2

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