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What's the difference between house and techno?
I would answer this in two ways:
HISTORICALLY, "house" and "techno" are two regional variations of post-disco club music that grew up more or less simultaneously. House music is associated with ...
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What's the difference between house and techno?
House - very melodic music influenced by 80s disco and electro; house has simple beats and real voices
house examples here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki6wWg2o8uQ
Techno - very percussive, ...
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What's the difference between house and techno?
House has its stylistic origins in Chicago. In Chicago, the black community heavily use gospel and blues as just the vernacular frame for their music. The dances there is the jack and the juke. ...
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What's the difference between house and techno?
Adding to Robert's fantastic answer above, the name House music comes from the night club in Chicago where the sound really caught on - a night club called Warehouse and a DJ named Frankie Knuckles ...
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What's the difference between house and techno?
answer is so simple. house music contains Claps on the second beat in the measure, where in Techno, claps are non existent and the snare is very rarely put on the second beat in the measure.
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What's the difference between house and techno?
OK, in short, and cutting a lot of corners: House is the EDM version of "black" music (soul, funk, jazz), and Techno is the EDM version of "white" music (rock). House usually has a "swing" feel to it (...
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Techno-House theme where interpreter naming Roman Emperors in the lyrics
"Amor Infinitus" by Imperio matches your description.
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Identify jazzy house song
Google's cached version of djhistory.com as of today 12.jan.2017 (main site down for maintenance) has a thread of people reminiscing about LIFE in Boston, and one of the contributors mentions a site ...
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House, Garage, UK Garage, Speed Garage: What's the difference?
Here I'll answer according to my experience and from various reference.
House
What you mean House is basically Classic House,Chicago House or Jackin House, It's kind of father of all four on the floor ...
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Why is Suara "All about music and cats"?
So Suara is all about music and cats. Can you tell us a bit about these two values? How long have you been a cat lover?
Well, my girlfriend is a feline vet, she works with animals, especially with ...
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Electro house music identification
Using Shazam I was able to identify it as
Steve Aoki, Chris Lake & Tujamo - Boneless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl2p4G3CUrI
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Repeated lyric in Guz & Tough Love - "Dancin' Kinda Close"
This is either a sample or a resung lyric from R&B group Next's salacious 90's hit "Too Close," about a young man who is way too excited to get on the dance floor.
The sampled part of the lyric ...
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Looking for a house album, with senior gentleman and snakeskin face on the cover
Half a year later, I happened to find it. Cheers!
Louie Austen - Iguana
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Stadium House genre (similar to the KLF)
Utah Saints were certainly considered proponents of the Stadium House subgenre too. In fact (from their Wikipedia entry): "They were described as "the first true stadium house band" by the KLF's Bill ...
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Identify jazzy house song
The name of the sound in my head is "Endzones" by the artist Modaji. https://www.discogs.com/Modaji-End-Zones/master/316646
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Boston DJs Brian and Ivan of Shizm contact info
Ivan is very friendly indeed, here's his SC account you can message him
https://soundcloud.com/movement-wkkl
Ps: do you own shizm mixes yourself?
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Stadium House genre (similar to the KLF)
Try Scooter from Germany. They are directly influenced by KLF and even covered/sampled them from time to time. They even use fake crowd noise in many of their songs.
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The sequel to "La novia del pescador" (id song)
Found from the voice of its author during a radio show
Provenzano - Folegandros
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New EDM-Rock Bands (Not old bands, Not metal, Not Djs)
Hadouken, Does It Offend, You Yeah? and Modestep seem to fit the bill.
Wikipedia also lists these as similar to Hadouken:
Associated acts The Midnight Beast, Does It Offend You, Yeah?,
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