Does anyone else think that the word "Techno" should be BANNED?

Question

Whenever I hear someone use that term I immediately label that person as ignorant about music and terminate my discussion with them. Why has this term become the "catch-all" term for the entire scope of electronic music? Personally, I hate the genre techno - but very few people have no idea what pure techno sounds like - a midi sequence based in early '90s style of music.

Let me give you an example of this term labeling in a real-world environment everyone can relate to: let's say I'm driving a car and that you, the observer, say I am driving a "Ford" because I have 4 wheels, a windshield, and maybe you see an exhaust pipe or 2. However, I am in fact actually driving a "Mitsubishi Evo 9" - and thereby you insult everyone's intelligence (including your own) about the way you labeled my car the way you did.

People please do your f'in research before throwing around terms you have little mental grasp on.

Answer 1

I use the word "techno" a lot when I'm referring to the music I listen to because if I use other words like vocal trance, trance, happy hardcore, house, or anything else, people give me that puppy dog head tilting "huh?" kind of look. It's much easier just saying techno then to have to sit there and explain the difference between them all. I know the difference of course, but I'm not wasting 10 minutes of my life trying to explain it to someone when they aren't going to get it anyway.

It's the same with any kind of music. Of course the people who listen to it know there are several sub-categories and know the difference between them. Take for example heavy metal. There is death metal, power metal, thrash metal, black metal, etc. People who listen to that kind of music know the difference and know what they sound like, but it's much easier to tell someone that they listen to just "heavy metal".

Answer 2

A car is a car. I was alive when Detroit came out with Techno. The rich left to the suburbs causing an utter collapse of business. The inner city unified in sound forming this new genre Europeans covet. Those who find knowledge using their "Intelligence" will normally identify major ignorance of the remaining amount of data to learn on the subject as an axiom. Your judgment is excessive and sends a CLEAR MESSAGE to the reader. Techno should not be banned. All of the fractionated portions should bow down to the purity as a whole.

Namaste,
Pipe

Answer 3

well,
not all tissue is actually called 'kleenex'....but any of it will do when you need to blow your nose....
words sometimes evolve....